It’s time we stopped pretending that there isn’t a problem with Alabama’s gambling laws.
Every year, it seems, especially around the time the legislature shows up to work, we start a conversation about gambling legislation. About legalizing this or creating new laws for that. And inevitably, as this argument unfolds, there is the contention from some folks that Alabama’s gambling laws are just fine, they only need to be enforced properly or stiffer penalties applied.
It’s nonsense. Just ask the people of Lipscomb.
Situated just north of Bessemer in Jefferson County, the small town of about 2,000 people suddenly can’t pay its city employees, including police and firefighters, because it is the defendant in a lawsuit filed by Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall.
