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The governor has proposed delaying an already approved 4.2 percent cut in the state income tax as a way to replace funding that no longer is expected from an ill-fated plan to add video slot machines at Ohio horseracing tracks. Strickland has said he'd...
Tags: Ohio Supreme Court, slot machines, Ohio Roundtable, Ohio Policy Roundtable, Ted Strickland, video slot
The introduction of video slot machines will have most of Ohio's racetracks scrambling to install machines while others face even bigger changes. At one track, it likely will mean a move from the county fairgrounds where local officials allow betting...
Tags: Ohio Jobs, video slot, slot machines
A plan to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to rebuild rundown schools and pay for other education needs would be funded by slot machine revenues, under a proposal House Speaker Greg Stumbo made Tuesday to his fellow House Democrats. "The best way...
Tags: House Democratic, Greg Stumbo, Kentucky Derby, University of Kentucky, Calvin Borel, races tracks, lottery terminals, house speaker, speaker greg, video slot
At least a half-dozen states are weighing whether to expand gambling opportunities, as longtime proponents of slot machines, video poker and casinos seize upon the recession to promote gambling receipts as a quick-and-easy solution to budget woes. The...
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New York Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver says he's against installing lucrative video slot machines at Belmont race track, throwing a road block at a proposal pushed by the Senate and Gov. David Paterson . Silver says building a video slot center at the...
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N.Y. — The state Senate's Republican majority is going along with a $370 million deal to bring video slot machines to Aqueduct Race Track after stalling for nearly two weeks. During a televised debate Wednesday, Queens Republican Sen. Serphin Maltese...
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