Hopkins on Track to Approve Electronic Bingo
Following a meeting with local organizations, the City Council appears ready to allow the devices in Hopkins establishments.
City officials are ready to welcome electronic bingo to Hopkins following a meeting Tuesday night with local charitable gambling managers and the businesses that host their organizations. The managers said they’re fine with allowing electronic bingo in Hopkins as long as it doesn’t pave the way to full-scale bingo halls that would hurt organizations already running bingo games. “Times change. You have to go back and look at why times changed and where we’re at,” Mayor Gene Maxwell said. Legislators last year allowed charities to use electronic gaming devices under the theory that they’d lead to an increase in charitable gambling—resulting in more money for both the charities and the state, which already gets a cut of charitable gaming. The…
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