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GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (KJCT) - The City of Grand Junction has decided to uphold its ban on new skilled gaming businesses within city limits. City officials concurrently are considering how they will regulate gaming establishments from a zoning standpoint.Skilled gaming businesses are also referred to as “gray casinos” and they operate using arcade style games that offer monetary payouts. Local law enforcement agencies have also found a correlation between these businesses and increased criminal activity.The city council voted unanimously on Wednesday, Feb. 21st, to extend the temporary suspension preventing the formation of new skilled gaming businesses and restricting existing ones from relocating within the city. The temporary suspension was set in motion in March of last year.Skilled...

The grocery giants Albertsons and Kroger illegally colluded to weaken workers’ leverage amid strikes and contract negotiations in 2022, according to a lawsuit Colorado’s attorney general filed this week.As workers at 78 Kroger-owned King Soopers stores in Colorado were preparing to walk off the job that January, an Albertsons labor relations executive informed a counterpart at Kroger that his company would not poach strikers during the work stoppage, the lawsuit states.“We don’t intend to hire any King Soupers [sic] employees and we have already advised the Safeway division of our position and the division agrees,” Albertsons’ senior vice president of labor relations wrote in an email quoted in the complaint.The lawsuit also alleges that Albertsons agreed not to solicit King Soopers cus...

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Game Tech: GJ City Council upholds its ban on new skilled gaming businesses

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