It was only about 35 years ago that the Chicago Tribune ran a front-page story with the headline: “Wisconsin is going to the dogs.”
The article detailed how our state, once one of the most anti-gambling states in the country, had jumped with both feet into a craze that was sweeping the country: greyhound dog racing.
Wisconsin voters opened the doors to the sport when in 1987 they overturned the state’s historic anti-gambling laws and passed a constitutional amendment to allow a state-run lottery and the legalization of pari-mutuel betting…