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Virginia’s gambling market has grown rapidly since sports betting was legalized in 2020. Tax revenue has flowed into state programs, but residents now face a crowded field of operators with varying terms.
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Licensed online casinos operate in a brutally competitive market across the handful of states that permit them, and customer acquisition is their largest expense. Promotional credit is how they bid for attention.
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For online casino and gambling firms, customer verification and monitoring are an integral part of operations. In regulated local markets, regulators require them.
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Virginia has one chance to critically assess NextEra Energy’s proposed acquisition of Dominion Energy.
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A product does not earn trust just because of how good it looks. Nice colors and design help, of course, but users start to relax only when the next step feels obvious.
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Dominion Energy and Florida-based NextEra Energy plan to merge to form the largest utility in the U.S. Clean Virginia, a nonprofit advocacy organization, urges extreme caution that this mega-merger does not put corporate profits ahead of customers.
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Online gambling has evolved rapidly in recent years, and one of the biggest trends attracting attention is the rise of “no verification casinos.”
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The Virginia General Assembly passed a bill to extend the EnergyShare program of Dominion Energy to 2038 and increase its budget.
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The Republican One Big Beautiful Bill Act subsidizes fossil fuels by an average of $3.5 billion each year, according to a new report from Senate Budget Committee Democrats.
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By now, it has become painfully clear that the only economic plan being advanced by the Trump administration is the kind that enriches the oligarchy at the expense of everyone else.
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