Larry Hogan calls for a special legislative session, which The Post’s Steve Thompson deemed unlikely in a story published in May. A bill calling for a voter referendum on sports gambling passed the House of Delegates but not the Senate this year, meaning any further legislation will have to wait until next year unless Gov. But Maryland, home to six casinos - including three in the Washington-Baltimore area - has yet to move forward.
Farther to the northeast, New Jersey’s casinos and racetracks began offering sports gambling soon after Delaware. Delaware, one of the states that previously was allowed to offer a limited form of sports gambling under PASPA, launched full-scale sports betting at three casinos in early June, though all three of those gambling parlors are slightly longer drives than Charles Town from much of the Washington area, requiring trips along some of the Mid-Atlantic’s most traffic-clogged highways.
