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Montana's carefully regulated, small-scale, limited-stakes gambling is meant to provide a reliable revenue stream to state and local governments, provide additional income to struggling taverns, and to allow another entertainment option for our state's residents and our visitors. It has successfully done all three.

The Montana Gaming Group is a non-profit 501(c)(4) corporation which has as its mission conducting research and disseminating helpful information to the Montana gaming businesses, their employees, the public and government officials.

The information contained in the pages available at this site is gathered from numerous sources, most of which do not enjoy wide circulation in the public sector, and so may bring a unique perspective to the reader.

The Gaming Group is funded by contributions from business organizations representing almost 2,500 small enterprises that have a stake in ensuring a fair and reasonable operating environment for businesses licensed to offer adult beverages and limited gaming to the public.

Grant Lincoln of Missoula is the group's chairman, and Ronda Carpenter of Great Falls is the treasurer.

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		NEWS

		Are video gaming machine (VGM) tax collections up by 22.28 percent in your neck of the woods, as they are in Petroleum County? Or are they down 98.64 percent, as has been reported for Lake County? Well, you can once again find out. More... Gambling Control Division Chief Gene Huntington pitched a proposal to form a working group that would examine and make recommendations on emerging technology and changes that would inevitably come to the business. More... Recently a spate of credit gambling cases were publicized in the daily media. The Montana Tavern Times asked GCD chief Gene Huntington if the cases brought attention because more abuse of the law was occurring or because enforcement had been stepped up. More... A forum on the future of video gambling machine technology will be held in Billings June 25, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the MSU-Billings Conference Center. More... The Gaming Advisory Council considered raffles; the revised definitions of bingo cards; additional licensing for emerging new types of businesses associated with gambling; electronic reporting compliance timetables; establishing a permanent committee to explore and make recommendations regarding new gaming technology; new GCD public data report formats and more. More... The Montana Tavern Association board of directors voted to continue its long tradition of not endorsing individual candidates for public office when it met at Jorgenson's in Helena March 4. More... "This is one of the best jobs around," Neil Peterson told the Montana Tavern Times a couple of days after he was named the new executive director of the Gaming Industry Association of Montana (GIA). More... Donna Johnson, MCPG executive director, also notes the programs offered by the council are steadily growing as a result of improving awareness of gambling addiction. More... Neil Peterson was offered the job as GIA executive director March 13 after a series of interviews and accepted March 14. He will officially take the executive helm upon Miller's departure April 1. More... Video gaming machine tax collections grew by $996,214 in the second quarter of Fiscal Year (FY) 2008, Oct. 1-Dec. 31, 2007, an uptick of 6.62 percent. Tax growth in the same quarter of the previous year was 7.11 percent. More...