Ed Husar of the Quincy Herald -Whig reports on a couple of disciplines from yesterday's MGC meeting.

Interesting story from Bloomberg Businessweek.com.  Read the story about a possible 10 Billion dollar investment in gaming in Japan.

Interesting story out of Indiana. Read it here.

MGC Staff pays one dollar each on Thursdays and Fridays in order to donate money to the Food Bank for Central and Northeast Missouri. Our efforts have raised nearly 3,000 dollars for the Buddy Pack program. Here's another story about a guy helping school kids with lunch. This has absolutely nothing to do with gaming…but everything to do with lending a helping hand when you can.

'Lunch angel' pays kids' overdue accounts at elementary school

    

Danika Fears         TODAY contributor    

4 hours ago    

Courtesy of Kenny Thompson

Kenny Thompson paid the negative lunch balance for over 60 kids at the school where he mentors and tutors.

As a tutor and mentor at Valley Oaks Elementary School in Houston for over 10 years, Kenny Thompson has taken pride in helping out kids. So on Monday, when he found out that over 60 students at his school were eating cold sandwiches for lunch because of overdue funds on their accounts, he decided to pay off the negative balance. All $465 of it.

“It was the best money I ever spent,” Thompson, 52, told TODAY.com. “It was the best gift I ever gave myself. I went into my car and screamed.

Read the rest of this story at Today.com

Read about the Quapaw Tribe and their preservation efforts in the Joplin Globe.

Read the story at St.Joseph News Press Now.com

The city of Cape Girardeau is talking about casino revenues. Read the story in the

Southeast Missourian.

Isle of Capri Kansas City and the Kansas City Port Authority are working on a project. Read the story in the Kansas City Business Journal.

Read the story in the St.Joseph News Press Now.com