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OTB Clings to Life, Maybe

201012_otb.jpg The beleaguered OTB might not be heading off to that great glue factory in the sky tomorrow. But also it might. Yesterday the board of the city's only legal bookie voted unanimously to shut the money-losing joints down on Friday as the State Senate had failed to vote on a bailout. But now it seems that the State Senate will reconvene on Tuesday to make a decision. So will the OTB wait it out to find out its fate next week? They aren't saying. Bloomberg reports that "Sylvia Hamer, OTB chief of staff, declined to say in a telephone interview if the organization planned to delay its plans." Suspense!

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  • Guest

    if they can't muster any funds to prevent our hospitals from closing the Senate better not waste a red cent of our tax dollars on OTB.

  • mocanlagunas

    what are the odds?

  • bonu$baby

    Only Albany can continue to run a money losing gambling operation.

    Someone must have left a big bag of cash on Shelly's back door again.

  • Just get over it and put them out of misery.

  • ANGRYGOD11

    Stop! Sylvia Hamer! Don't hurt them!
    On second thought, who needs the grimy losers who hang around an OTB office around?

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