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Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell said he is “not sure we will ever have a table-games bill” come next month.<\/p>\n
The state desperately needs the casino-related bill to pass in order to draw in more revenue and create 1000 new jobs.<\/p>\n
Inquirer<\/a>:<\/p>\n Gov. Rendell yesterday upped the ante in his bid to balance the state budget, saying that without a table-games bill he would have to close the State Museum of Pennsylvania and some state parks in addition to laying off at least 1,000 more government employees.<\/p>\n The bill – the final unresolved part of the state budget the governor signed in October after a 101-day impasse – would bring in $250 million in license fees and taxes that Rendell said is necessary to keep the government running.<\/p>\n “I’m not sure we will ever have a table-games bill,” said Rendell.<\/p>\n Read more ><\/a><\/p>\n Join the conversation about this story »<\/a><\/p>\n See Also:<\/b><\/p>\n Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell said he is “not sure we will ever have a table-games bill” come next month. The state desperately needs the casino-related bill to pass in order to draw in more revenue and create 1000 new jobs. Inquirer: Gov. Rendell yesterday upped the ante in his bid to balance the state budget, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95870\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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