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Joan Vennochi

All of Boston should vote on a Suffolk Downs casino

By Joan Vennochi

 |  Globe Columnist  

  June 07, 2012

If a Suffolk Downs casino is win-win for all of Boston, why can’t all of Boston vote on it? Under the state’s new gambling law, large cities like Boston can limit a vote to the wards in which a casino would be located. In the case of Suffolk Downs, that means only voters in Revere and East Boston must endorse the proposal for a $1 billion, 163-acre gambling resort casino, dubbed “an urban oasis” by its promoters.

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