Last week, State Sen. Del Marsh, R-Anniston, unveiled his “comprehensive” gaming proposal, which is considered a satisfactory plan to all of the players in Alabama’s decades-long gambling conundrum.
Marsh, who earlier this month stepped down from his post as the Alabama Senate president pro tempore, seeks to rectify a situation that goes back to the middle of the last century.
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