OSCEOLA – Would-be casino owner Steve Gray and casino owner Dan Kehl on Thursday shook hands and exchanged a quick pleasantry. It was a reminder of a past battle and a battle to come. The handshake was the first time the two had seen each other or spoken since they had dueled in a $3.43-million [...]

The $100 million casino proposed for a spot across the Cedar River from downtown here is surfacing this week on the agenda of the Iowa Racing and Gaming Commission, the all-important five-member board that will decide in the months ahead if it will grant the proposed casino a license to operate. Brian Ohorilko, the commission’s [...]

New, final figures from campaigns for and against casino gaming in Linn County show the sides did not raise and spend $2.25 million, but rather $3.43 million in the weeks leading up to the hotly contested March 5 referendum. The new dollar amounts are revealed in final campaign financial disclosure forms filed by Vote Yes [...]

CEDAR RAPIDS — Jeff Lamberti, chairman of the Iowa Racing & Gaming Commission, on Tuesday said the outcome of last night’s vote to allow casino gaming in Warren County just south of Des Moines had little bearing on the prospects for a Cedar Rapids casino to secure a state gaming license. Voters in Warren County [...]

Those who want to see a casino built in Cedar Rapids will be watching Tuesday to see if voters in Warren County south of Des Moines approve gaming in their county, as voters in Linn County did March 5. It’s not clear if the Cedar Rapids request for a state gaming license would be helped [...]

A group in support of building a casino in Warren County is submitting signatures to push for a referendum on it. Warren County Citizens for Good Jobs says it will turn in a petition Wednesday to the county auditor. The petition aims to have a referendum on the ballot for May 7. Television station KCCI [...]

CEDAR RAPIDS — In the coming weeks, residents will get a clear picture of the empty space that a Cedar Rapids casino will fill should casino investors secure a state gaming license from the Iowa Racing & Gaming Commission. On Tuesday, the City Council approved two new flood-recovery demolition contracts, which will take down an [...]

Secretary of State Matt Schultz said Thursday that he hopes the episode of the Linn County voter impostor will help him make his case that Iowa needs to require photo identification for those who vote. The Linn County case involves a female who posed as 26-year-old Kristina Bentrim, of 2209 D St. SW, on Tuesday [...]

Maybe it was only a matter of time in a state with a Secretary of State who wants people to produce photo identification to vote. Joel Miller, Linn County auditor and commissioner of elections, reported on Wednesday that an impostor voted in a southeast Cedar Rapids precinct during Tuesday’s special election on casino gaming in [...]

  CEDAR RAPIDS — Dan Kehl concedes this: Steve Gray and his Cedar Rapids casino investor group got their foot in the door, but that’s all. Kehl, CEO of the Riverside Casino and Golf Resort south of Iowa City, said Wednesday he is confident that the Iowa Racing & Gaming Commission will do the right [...]