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Racino Hearing Set For Tuesday

Warren County authorities are moving ahead on a planned 175-million dollar "racino" near Interstate 75 and Monroe.The 120-acre site would include a harness racing track with grandstand and an indoor site with 25-hundred video lottery terminals. The racino is projected to employ 700 people. County commissioners plan a hearing Tuesday on the project, after earlier approving a tax plan to fund road and other public improvements around the site. Scioto Downs in suburban Columbus opened a racino in June, and others are in the works in the state. The racinos combine horse racing with video slots.

Jim has been with WCBE since 1996. Before that he worked as a reporter at another Columbus radio station, and for three newspapers in Southwest Florida.