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City-Owned Casino: Don't Bet on It

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State Rep. Bob Brady and Mayor Nutter don't see eye to eye on this casino thing. Brady thought he was moving along with a plan to create a city-owned casino whose revenue would go in part to the school district. Nutter says that would be illegal. But this being Philadelphia, Brady has a workaround: "There's a million ways to get around this if you want to, and I don't understand it," he told the Daily News. "Why not give kids' books instead of millionaires another Learjet?" [Daily News]