NAACP to state: No slots

By Stephen Janis
Published October 29, 2007 4:00am ET
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A proposal to allow up to 15,000 slot machines in Maryland drew criticism Sunday from the NAACP and the state comptroller.

Emerging from its annual convention in Ocean City, the NAACP asserted that slots would prey on the poor and never bring economic development to inner-city neighborhoods.

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