NC wisely balked at adding more casinos, but pressure to expand will keep growing
OPINION AND COMMENTARY Editorials and other content offer perspectives on issues important to our community and are independent from the work of ou...
OPINION AND COMMENTARY Editorials and other content offer perspectives on issues important to our community and are independent from the work of our newsroom reporters. Like gamblers who return to casinos despite their losses, casino operators will keep going back to states without casinos until they win. That's the pattern that lies just beyond the surprising defeat of an effort to add three non-tribal casinos in North Carolina. Senate leader Phil Berger put his full weight behind a proposal to include casino expansion in the state budget, but he was blocked by an unlikely coalition of Democrats and conservative Republicans.