With votes to spare for a three-fifths supermajority, the Maryland Senate on Thursday night approved Gov. Martin O?Malley?s plan to allow voters to decide next year whether to put up to 15,000 slot machines at five locations. The measure could raise about $500 million for education by 2012.
It?s now up to the House of Delegates to approve a key component of the governor?s revenue-raising package with a similar supermajority, despite the House?s long reluctance to embrace the gambling scheme.
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