Oregon to exit dog-racing business

Gov. Kotek signs a bill prohibiting the state’s vast online gambling books from taking bets on greyhounds.

 

BY NIGEL JAQUISS

Oregon Journalism Project

Gov. Tina Kotek shut the door this week on Oregon’s large, if largely invisible, role in the rapidly declining sport of greyhound racing. 

On May 7, Kotek signed House Bill 3020, which, according to a staff summary, “prohibits any person from wagering on the outcome of a greyhound or other…

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