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Belmont Park VLT gaming plan prompts rivaling rallies

Advocates and critics of a plan to bring a casino to Belmont Racetrack each staged rallies Saturday to plead their cases. As News 12 has reported, Nassau OTB has proposed plans to put 1,000 video lottery

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