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    <title>Arkansas voters get first lottery-only proposal</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 31 Oct 2008 23:24:48 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Arkansas banned lotteries even before state lawmakers determined how to properly pronounce the state's name.<br /><br />The 1874 ban held through the era of Hot Springs' illegal casinos and their destruction at the hands of sledgehammer-wielding state troopers nearly a century later. In the time since, attempts to legalize a government-run lottery always included bringing back casino games or something else just as unpalatable for a state squarely in the nation's Bible Belt.<br /><br />Now, though, a proposal b... [&nbsp;<a href="http://www.lotterypost.com/news/183823">More</a>&nbsp;]]]></description>
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