Minnesota sports betting bill advances as budget items stall
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A proposal to legalize sports betting has survived a test amid lawmakers’ efforts to pull together the pieces of a package to spend the Minnesota’s enormous budget surplus with just days remaining in the legislative session. But lawmakers remain divided…