'Mass Chaos' Emerges as NYC's First Racino Launches - 2004-01-28
With a dollar and a whirr of images, New York state's huge gamble on video lottery terminals started Wednesday in a maze of flashing lights in a room larger than a football field in Saratoga Springs.
He argues the state constitution stops slot machines and VLTs, which he says are thinly masked one-armed bandits. The constitution also abolishes casino gambling except in some forms to fund education, but the VLTs also are a boon to the dying racing industry and are of questionable value to education, Murray explained.
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