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TRENTON - State Senator Ron L. Rice (D-28) expressed serious reservations about the present push to put a casino in his Newark hometown, even with a charge to build a casino in New Jersey's largest city led by Newark Mayor Ras Baraka and Essex County Executive Joe DiVincenzo.

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