Skill games avoid regulation again as gambling lobby war intensifies

Pennsylvania skill game machine at a business near Harrisburg. Sarah Anne Hughes | For Spotlight PA

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HARRISBURG — This year’s state budget didn’t pull slot-like skill games out of their legal limbo in Pennsylvania, despite bipartisan consensus on the need to do so.

But it could still happen. Democratic Gov. Josh Shapiro called the matter “unfinished business,” and legislative leaders have also indicated interest in taking up the issue again next year…

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