Article: THE WEEK; SEPTEMBER 28 - OCTOBER 4.(NEWS)

The big story: Gov. Ted Strickland decided to fill a $900 million budget hole not with revenue from video slot machines, but by freezing income tax rates at 2008 levels rather than proceed with the last of a series of annual, 4.2% tax cuts put in place during the administration of former Gov. Bob Taft. In passing a two-year budget in July, the governor and the Legislature approved a plan that would have allowed each of the state's seven horse race tracks to install up to 2,500 "video lottery terminals, or slot machines, at their operations. However, the Ohio Supreme Court upset that plan in ruling that provisions of the budget bill that authorize the slots are subject to ...

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