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Video gambling offers a different spin for racetracks

March 29, 2019 at 7:36 a.m.

When state lawmakers refused in the mid-1990s to legalize slot machines in Arkansas, the owners of tiny Oaklawn racetrack in Hot Springs didn't give up: They developed an alternative. Dozens...

Issue will return next year

March 27, 2019 at 7:36 p.m.

For the second year in a row, slots foes appear to have beaten back a deep-pocketed gambling industry's efforts to expand in Maryland. But experts say it almost certainly will...

Michael Osborne, executive director of the Problem Gambling Council of Maryland, says if state money becomes available, he plans to seek funding for a 24-hour problem-gambling hot line.

Treatment groups see windfall from slots

May 30, 2019 at 3:50 p.m.

As the battle over casino-style gambling heats up in Maryland, an unlikely group is waging its own behind-the-scenes scramble for a piece of the action. Counseling services and other organizations...

Among those testifying to the House Ways and Means Committee on slot machines in Maryland were (from left) Maryland Attorney General J. Joseph Curran Jr., Montgomery County Executive Douglas M. Duncan and U.S. Rep. Wayne T. Gilchrest.

Slots prey on weakest, foes warn Assembly

March 29, 2019 at 9:02 a.m.

Expanded gambling will prey on Maryland's poor and most vulnerable citizens, threatening catastrophe for some of the state's most economically depressed communities, slot machine opponents warned a House committee yesterday....

Lawmaker targets video bingo machines

May 30, 2019 at 3:50 p.m.

An anti-slots legislator says he will seek to amend a budget bill that is up for a vote today to freeze the number of electronic video gambling devices in commercial...

The Rod & Reel in Chesapeake Beach, Calvert County, has "Lucky Tab II" machines that were declared legal in 2001.

New spin on gambling debate: Are those bingo machines slots?

March 29, 2019 at 5:10 p.m.

In what could signal the start of a video gambling gold rush in Maryland, an Anne Arundel bingo hall operator is seeking permission from the county to put devices that...

Agency’s slots role clouded by audit

March 30, 2019 at 2:13 a.m.

A scathing audit of the Maryland Stadium Authority could have broader repercussions as the debate over legalizing casino-style gambling shifts to the House of Delegates, some legislators say. The issue:...

Voters’ role in slots gets attention

July 1, 2019 at 6:41 a.m.

As the governor and Senate leaders head toward another collision over slots with House Speaker Michael E. Busch, one potential compromise quietly under discussion involves putting the question of expanded...

States in region seen competing for slots money

June 30, 2019 at 4:29 p.m.

As Pennsylvania lawmakers renew the debate over whether to legalize slot machines, the arguments in favor have a familiar ring to Marylanders - that the state must staunch the flow...

De Francis keeps clear of Assembly slots debate

June 30, 2019 at 10:59 p.m.

As the General Assembly opened public debate this week on expanding legalized gambling, the man whose family has been the face of Maryland horse racing for decades was noticeably missing....

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