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Failing states

By Paul Moran
Special to ESPN.com

Monday, July 13, 2009

New Jersey's largest daily newspaper, the Star-Ledger, suggested in an editorial this week that the state euthanize its once-thriving, if now withered racing industry. Last month, Kentucky Republicans killed proposed legislation in committee that would have permitted slot machines at racetracks, turning its back with a swoosh of arrogant disregard for majority opinion — if not democracy itself — on the state's signature industry. Two days before the July 29 opening of the summer mee ...

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