In the first of a three-part gaming summit held Friday at New Jersey's Atlantic City Convention Center, legislative democratic leaders proposed alternatives to recommendations put forward last month by the Hanson Committee report, with issues such as online gambling and the expansion of gambling at the state's ailing Meadowlands racetrack discussed by panel members.
Legislators on the ten-member panel, co-chaired by Senator Jim Whelan (D-Atlantic) and Assemblyman John Burzichelli (D-Gloucester), heard hours of testimony from public [...]