Legislature had no choice on Youngstown casino question, speaker says

YOUNGSTOWN — The state Legislature had no choice but to reject a proposal to include a Youngstown casino on a May ballot issue to change the location of a Columbus gambling site, the speaker of the Ohio House said.

That’s because Penn National Gambling, the company that will build the Columbus casino, wasn’t interested in building a casino in Youngstown, Ohio House Speaker Armond Budish, a Democrat from Beachwood, said at a Regional Chamber breakfast Friday at Youngstown State University’s Kilcawley Center.

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