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Staff Blog Started on Thursday, December 2007
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- Slots compromise in the making
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Posted by Bertram de Souza on July 5, 2009
Republicans in the Ohio General Assembly wanted Gov. Ted Strickland to sign an executive order legalizing video lottery terminals (slot machines) in Ohio, just as he did with Keno. The governor, who well knows that the 2010 statewide election is driving much of the debate on Ohio's biennium budget, has ...
- Slots less objectionable than casino proposal
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Posted by Bertram de Souza on June 28, 2009
Gov. Ted Strickland's support for legalizing slot machines — video lottery terminals, actually — and placing them in Ohio's seven horse-racing tracks is certainly more acceptable than the asinine proposal for a constitutional amendment to permit full-service casinos to be built in Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati and Toledo.At least under Strickland's ...
- Warren Mayor Michael O'Brien comes out firing
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Posted by Bertram de Souza on June 21, 2009
Warren Mayor Michael O'Brien was the guest Saturday morning on "The Valley's Talkin' With Doc and Bert" on 1330-WGFT and it was clear from the outset that he isn't taking criticism from city union officials well. O'Brien was particularly perturbed with the comment from the firefighters union president, Marc Titus, ...
- Betras taken to political school
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Posted by Bertram de Souza on June 7, 2009
Mahoning County Democratic Party Chairman David Betras would do well to channel the late party boss Don L. Hanni Jr. Betras' failure in court last week to block the statewide casino gambling initiative from going forward prompts this question: How would Hanni, as county party chairman, have handled the legal ...
- The battle lines are drawn
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Posted by Bertram de Souza on May 31, 2009 |
If David Betras, chairman of the Mahoning County Democratic Party, said it once, he said it a dozen times: The Mahoning Valley will not settle for crumbs.And, if Charlie Luken, former congressman and former mayor of Cincinnati, said it once, he said it a dozen times: The $6 million or ...