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Small business owner argues proposed $500 monthly tax per machine would generate $300 million while protecting local operators from gaming board hostility ...

Skill games are now everywhere in Pennsylvania, found in places like bars, restaurants, and gas stations. They look like slot machines, but their makers say that winning depends on skill, not luck.

With some 70,000 skill games operating without regulation or taxation in Pennsylvania, Gov. Josh Shapiro is seeing red — and green. He told a group of legislators and special guests, who gathered at ...

HARRISBURG — This year’s state budget didn’t pull slot-like skill games out of their legal limbo, despite bipartisan consensus on the need to do so. But it could still happen. Democratic Gov. Josh ...