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Friday, May 2, 2003 | 10:06 a.m.
ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- A proposal to allow video gambling machines in bars and clubs to help balance the state budget appears dead or nearly so as the Legislature enters its final weeks.
The once-hot idea is stalled in the House Special Committee on Ways and Means. Fairbanks Republican Rep. Jim Whitaker, the committee co-chairman handling the gambling bill, said he has no plans to bring it up again. He confirmed this week that the idea appears to be dead for this year.
Public opposition has surged in the past two weeks, Whitaker said.
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