Via Atrios - in one respect, this was inevitable:
State Rep. Bill DeWeese officially introduced his proposal yesterday to add table games to Pennsylvania’s casinos. Under the measure, casino operators would pay a $10 million fee up-front to inaugurate games such as blackjack, poker and craps at their currently slots-only facilities.
That’s pretty much full-fledged casino right […]

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Interesting to see what appears to be a grass-roots reaction to a governmental decision based on religious conservatism in the Eastern Lancaster County School District.
That residents and school board members might spend their valuable time debating the morality of gambling is telling. Of course there’s a debate to be had there; and the amount of […]

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See, I’m not necessarily opposed to this, Rep. Tom Creighton’s idea that casinos ought to be required to send monthly win-lost statements to those who have registered for “reward cards” and get maybe free drinks or food, that sort of thing.
I have zero confidence that it will accomplish what Creighton thinks it will, however:
Creighton said these […]

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