{"id":8550,"date":"2015-01-21T03:20:33","date_gmt":"2015-01-21T03:20:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/2015\/01\/21\/commission-head-coast-shining-star-of-mississippi-casinos\/"},"modified":"2015-01-21T03:20:33","modified_gmt":"2015-01-21T03:20:33","slug":"commission-head-coast-shining-star-of-mississippi-casinos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/2015\/01\/21\/commission-head-coast-shining-star-of-mississippi-casinos\/","title":{"rendered":"Commission head: Coast \u2018shining star\u2019 of Mississippi casinos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- Original Post Content --><br \/>\nAssociated Press \u00b7 <\/p>\n<p>\tGULFPORT, La. (AP) \u2013 Mississippi Gaming Commission executive director Alan Godfrey says that South Mississippi was \u201cthe shining star\u201d of Mississippi\u2019s casino business last year. He says the coast was the only part of the state where casino revenue was up.<\/p>\n<p>\tThe Sun Herald reports (<!-- m --><a class=\"postlink\" href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/1yhORwF\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/1yhORwF<\/a><!-- m --> ) that statewide casinos revenues fell 3 percent, to $2 billion. Coast casinos posted a 1 percent increase, from $1.07 billion to $1.08 billion.<\/p>\n<p>\tGodfrey says that over the past decade, Mississippi dropped from the nation\u2019s third-largest casino market to the sixth-largest but remains a strong, well-respected market.<\/p>\n<p>\tGodfrey delivered his State of the Casinos report during the Gaming Commission\u2019s January meeting Thursday at Island View Casino Resort, which will open its restored hotel tower in April. Work on the tower south of U.S. 90 cost $58 million.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<h3>Replies:<\/h3>\n<p>No replies were posted for this topic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Associated Press \u00b7 GULFPORT, La. (AP) \u2013 Mississippi Gaming Commission executive director Alan Godfrey says that South Mississippi was \u201cthe shining star\u201d of Mississippi\u2019s casino business last year. He says the coast was the only part of the state where&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest-casino-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8550\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}