Community leaders and lawmakers in North and West Philadelphia have deep reservations about funding SEPTA with revenue from a proposed tax on “skill games,” the long-unregulated gaming devices ...

ROANOKE, Va. – While Gov. Glenn Youngkin continues to take action on a number of bills, one bill sitting on his desk would impact the fate of skill games in the Commonwealth. If you’ve been to a ...

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HARRISBURG, Pa. — Arguably the most contentious issue in the state budget negotiations has been the taxing and regulation of skill games. A bill backed by GOP State Senate leadership would tax skill ...

HARRISBURG — Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro and state lawmakers are getting down to crunch time, with big questions still outstanding about how to balance the Democrat’s spending request. A push is ...

Gov. Glenn Youngkin is proposing massive changes to legislation that would tax and legalize skill games, including a provision that would ban their use across large swaths of the commonwealth. “I ...

Will 2024 will be the year that Pennsylvania adds skill games to its mix of gaming options? Gov. Josh Shapiro, a Democrat, has included revenue in his $48.3 billion state budget for 2024-25 from the ...

Gov. Glenn Youngkin vetoed legislation last month that would have legalized skill games after his initial amendments were rejected, but some senators are pushing to revive the debate Tuesday when ...

For a decade, Pennsylvania lawmakers have been weighing whether to regulate so-called skill games, the untaxed slot machine-like devices that have proliferated in convenience stores, bars, and gas ...

The owners of twelve Pennsylvania casinos have asked the state’s highest court to declare that a tax on slot machine revenue is unconstitutional because the state doesn’t impose it broadly on ...

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (WAVY) — Hundreds of convenience stores across the Commonwealth closed their doors for an hour Tuesday afternoon as part of two days of protests against the governor’s stance on ...