My latest for Vegas Seven–some thoughts on the meaning of Pennsylvania’s expansion of gambling:
There are two areas of interest for Las Vegans. The first is the expansion itself. In a sense, Pennsylvania’s push may be the final phase of the expansion of American gambling, which started with Nevada’s re-legalization of wide-open commercial gaming in 1931, intensified with New Hampshire’s revival of the lottery in 1964, opened again with the 1976 legalization of casino gaming in Atlantic City and accelerated following Congress’ 1988 passage of the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act. The result of this growth is that legal gambling, which in 1910 was limited to horse race betting in Kentucky and Maryland, is now the norm in the United States.
Read more: Pennsylvania gambling expands and other states will follow
IMHO, more gambling expansion is probably on the way. No big surprise, but I give a few of my reasons in the article.