{"id":236144,"date":"2026-07-05T17:22:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T17:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/236144\/"},"modified":"2026-07-05T17:22:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T17:22:08","slug":"opinion-pennsylvanias-highest-court-confirmed-what-we-already-knew-about-skill-games-now-lawmakers-must-act-cdc-gaming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/236144\/","title":{"rendered":"OPINION: Pennsylvania\u2019s highest court confirmed what we already knew about skill games. Now lawmakers must act. \u2013 CDC Gaming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<a class=\"back-link\" href=\"https:\/\/cdcgaming.com\/news\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u2190 Back to Newsroom<\/a>\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\nSunday, July 5, 2026 1:03 PM<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"375\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/delete-8-375x225.jpg\" class=\"no-lazy \" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Image aggregated from The Philadelphia Inquirer.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Generic-Author.jpg\"\/>David Black, The Philadelphia Inquirer\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Email, LinkedIn, and more<\/p>\n<p>When Gov. Ed Rendell first championed casino gambling in Pennsylvania more than two decades ago, the promise was straightforward: Regulated gaming would boost the economy, modernize the state\u2019s entertainment industry, and create jobs. For years, it did exactly that.<\/p>\n<p>But something went wrong along the way. Skill games, devices that look, sound, and function like slot machines, spread to thousands of bars, restaurants, gas stations, and clubs across Pennsylvania, completely unregulated and untaxed. Meanwhile, as brick-and-mortar casinos paid their fair share to the commonwealth and submitted to oversight from the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board, skill game operators avoided both. The playing field wasn\u2019t level.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.inquirer.com\/opinion\/commentary\/skill-games-casinos-taxes-regulation-pennsylvania-budget-20260627.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Article continues on The Philadelphia Inquirer\u00a0\u2b95<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.inquirer.com\/opinion\/commentary\/skill-games-casinos-taxes-regulation-pennsylvania-budget-20260627.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"osButton button\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a>\t\t\t <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u2190 Back to Newsroom Sunday, July 5, 2026 1:03 PM Image aggregated from The Philadelphia Inquirer. David Black,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":236145,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[4751,393,1559,28,30,29,1979],"class_list":["post-236144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-legal","tag-legislation","tag-opinion","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-skill-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236144\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}