{"id":12324,"date":"2013-12-23T15:40:03","date_gmt":"2013-12-23T23:40:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=12324"},"modified":"2013-12-24T10:24:15","modified_gmt":"2013-12-24T18:24:15","slug":"and-its-mgm-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/and-its-mgm-again\/","title":{"rendered":"And it&#8217;s &#8230; MGM again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/MGM-Rendering.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-10904\" alt=\"MGM Rendering\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/MGM-Rendering-300x235.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"235\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/MGM-Rendering-300x235.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/MGM-Rendering-150x117.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/MGM-Rendering.jpg 539w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Add <strong>Massachusetts<\/strong> to the roster of states where <strong>MGM Resorts International<\/strong> has been approved to operate. It received the unanimous assent of the <strong>Massachusetts Gaming Commission<\/strong> earlier today. &#8220;<em>The Commission &#8230; finds that the Applicant has satisfied its burden of proving by clear and convincing evidence that it meets the standards for suitability<\/em>,&#8221; reads just a tiny bit of the MGC&#8217;s 12-page decision. Next up for MGM, licensing and the award of the western-zone casino concession, in <strong>Springfield<\/strong>, where MGM intends to invest.<\/p>\n<p>MGM&#8217;s victory in <strong>Maryland<\/strong>\u00a0last week was a 5-2 vote, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/baltimore\/blog\/real-estate\/2013\/12\/prince-georges-exec-rushern-baker-on.html?ana=RSS&amp;s=article_search&amp;utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+industry_20+%28Industry+Commercial+Real+Estate%29&amp;page=2\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"broken_link\">with the other two votes going<\/a> to <strong>Greenwood Racing<\/strong>. Fittingly, <strong>Penn National Gaming<\/strong> was shut out entirely, having campaigned against casino gambling in <strong>Prince George&#8217;s County<\/strong> last fall then having thegall to vie for the lone license.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Add Massachusetts to the roster of states where MGM Resorts International has been approved to operate. It received the unanimous assent of the Massachusetts Gaming Commission earlier today. &#8220;The Commission &#8230; finds that the Applicant has satisfied its burden of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/and-its-mgm-again\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[28,26,172,72,112,11,69,25,32,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12324"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12324"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12332,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12324\/revisions\/12332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}