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R.I. leaders need to see the risk in dependence on gambling revenue

TIME TO HEDGE? Rhode Island is the national leader in per capita revenue collected from gambling. Most state leaders, however, say they are unconcerned about the state’s dependence on the industry and the one company, Bally’s Corp., that has a local monopoly on it. / PBN FILE PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO
TIME TO HEDGE? Rhode Island is the national leader in per capita revenue collected from gambling. Most state leaders, however, say they are unconcerned about the state’s dependence on the industry and the one company, Bally’s Corp., that has a local monopoly on it. / PBN FILE PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

Nevada may be the nation’s gambling mecca, but it still trails runaway national leader Rhode Island in per capita revenue collected from gambling. Yet, as this week’s cover story reports, most Rhode Island political leaders remain completely unconcerned about the tiny state’s outsized dependence both on a single industry and the one company that has

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