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Vermont Edition

What Vermont could gain—or lose—from legalizing sports betting

By Connor Cyrus,
Tedra Meyer
Published October 26, 2022 at 11:53 AM EDT
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A committee is studying what a potential legalized sports gambling industry would look like in Vermont and plans to make recommendations to the legislature in December.

Live call-in discussion: Vermont is the only state in New England that hasn’t legalized sports betting, according to the American Gaming Association. But, that could be changing.

The Vermont Sports Betting Study Committee is currently working on recommendations that are due to the legislature in December. From there, lawmakers will decide whether to make gambling legal in Vermont, and shape what it would look like. The committee is expected to make recommendations on the number of operators as well as the tax rate and revenue sharing model.

Our guests are:

  • Wendy Knight, commissioner of the Department of Liquor and Lottery and chair of the Vermont Sports Betting Study Committee
  • Charlie McIntyre, executive director of the New Hampshire Lottery

Broadcast live on Thursday, Oct. 27, 2022, at noon; rebroadcast at 7 p.m.

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Connor Cyrus
Connor Cyrus joined Vermont Public as host and senior producer in March 2021. He was a morning reporter at WJAR in Providence, Rhode Island. A graduate of Lyndon State College (now Northern Vermont University), he started his reporting career as an intern at WPTZ, later working for WAGM in Presque Isle, Maine, and WCAX Channel 3, where he covered a broad range of stories from Vermont’s dairy industry to the nurses’ strikes at UVM Medical Center. He’s passionate about journalism’s ability to shed light on complex or difficult topics, as well as giving voice to underrepresented communities.
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Tedra Meyer
Tedra joined Vermont Public as a producer for Vermont Edition in January 2022. Before moving to Vermont, she was a journalist in New York City for 20 years. She has a master’s degree in journalism from New York University.
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