Virus failed to curb North Dakota's appetite for gambling
Virus failed to curb North Dakota's appetite for gambling JAMES MacPHERSON, Associated Press FacebookTwitterEmail BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — The coronavirus pandemic did not slow North Dakotans’ appetite for gambling, with more than $881 million wagered on games of chance in fiscal 2020, a more than 50% increase from the year before, data compiled for The Associated Press shows. Even though games of chance at businesses were shut down for about a month beginning in late March last year to slow the spread of the coronavirus, “the pandemic has not hurt gaming whatsoever,” said Deb McDaniel,...
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