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N.C. Lottery Update: Moving QuicklyNews Story
More than 200 stores in Forsyth County have applied to sell scratch-off tickets for the scheduled start of the new North Carolina lottery March 30. Although most of them are convenience stores and grocery chains, applicants also include a miniature-golf course, several tobacconists, at least one pawn shop and a store that sells Indian food and spices. At one store, Blue Ridge Tobacco Candle Outlet on Cloverdale Avenue, customers should soon be able to buy scratch-off tickets with their c
Mar 6, 2006, 8:15 am - Lottery News

N.C. Lottery machines installedNews Story
Lottery machines are coming to counter tops at convenience stores around North Carolina. In fact, at least one was installed Thursday. Contractors began installing machines at the Kangaroo store on Castle Hayne Road in New Hanover County Thursday morning. It's one of the first devices in Southeastern North Carolina. Lottery machines are already in place in Wilmington at the Scotchman on 23rd Street and a Kangaroo store on Oleander Drive. The stores get something for giving up the space th
Feb 24, 2006, 8:56 am - Lottery News

N.C. Lottery may end video pokerNews Story
The establishment of a state lottery in North Carolina will have no legal effect on video poker games in North Carolina, at least not immediately. However, some who would like to see video poker banned altogether won't rule out using the lottery as one means of curtailing the use of the video games. Gov. Mike Easley even mentioned last fall at a press conference called to discuss the startup of the lottery that the state-sponsored gambling games could lead to an end of video poker.
Feb 24, 2006, 8:11 am - Lottery News

N.C. Lottery finally gets a logoNews Story
It may not be pretty, but at least the North Carolina Lottery finally has adopted a symbol to represent itself. The state's lottery logo will reflect the character of the state, not a generic burst of fireworks. At a commission meeting last week, Tom Shaheen, the lottery's executive director, presented a proposed logo with a flourish, removing a sheet from a logo perched on an easel - but that clearly puzzled some commissioners. After scrapping the failed attempt, officials today approved
Feb 22, 2006, 11:30 am - Lottery News

New N.C. Lottery ad agency picked after earlier winner withdrawsNews Story
The North Carolina lottery hired a new ad agency Tuesday to promote its games now less than six weeks from the start after the agency that originally won the job refused to put up a $500,000 bond to ensure its vendors were paid. The firm Wray Ward Laseter of Charlotte takes over a three-year contract to lead the lottery's projected $8 million a year advertising campaign. Howard Merrell Partners of Raleigh, the top bidder last week, quit a few days after winning the contract Feb. 14.
Feb 21, 2006, 12:20 pm - Lottery News

N.C. lottery is quickly piling up a lot of dirty laundryNews Story
Editorial By Asheville Citizen-Times published February 19, 2006 The North Carolina Lottery may bring extra money into state coffers, but the questionable ethics surrounding its inception and the controversies it continues to generate raise serious questions about whether the cost outweighs the value. Last week two new conflicts presented themselves. The first confirms the worst suspicions of many lottery opponents and the fears of some lottery supporters. The second is a slap in the face
Feb 20, 2006, 8:30 am - Lottery News

Judge: N.C. lottery can keep working, but challenge remains aliveNews Story
The North Carolina lottery can continue preparing for a March 30 kickoff while a court considers a legal challenge to the way the Legislature passed the lottery law last year, a Wake County judge ruled Wednesday. The decision is somewhat of a loss for both parties in the legal fight. While Superior Court Judge Henry Hight denied a motion by taxpayers, lawmakers and advocacy groups who sought to temporarily stop work on the lottery, he also declined the state's request to dismiss the complaint
Feb 16, 2006, 9:48 am - Lottery News

Lawsuit Challenging N.C. Lottery Still AliveNews Story
Critics of the N.C. Education Lottery won't be able to stop the state's plan to launch the game next month. But they can keep a lawsuit going that says lawmakers cut legal corners in approving the game, according to two court rulings Wednesday. In fact, the court hearings on whether the lottery is legal could continue as the lottery starts. The next court date is scheduled for March 20, 10 days before the lottery's instant winner scratch-off tickets are supposed to go on sale. Wake Coun
Feb 16, 2006, 9:00 am - Lottery News

N.C. Lottery funding controversy widensNews Story
The North Carolina Lottery has not yet started, and already Gov. Mike Easley may be doing what lottery watchdogs feared would happen: Easley is looking to replace funding on existing state programs with lottery revenues, rather than putting the new-found revenue toward new projects. Easley's staff on Wednesday defended his plans for spending money from the new state lottery, saying the governor would not use lottery funds to replace tax money that's already going to education. Some critics,
Feb 16, 2006, 8:33 am - Lottery News

N.C. Lottery staff used common clip art to create logoNews Story
With a bit of drama Tuesday, lottery chief Tom Shaheen whipped away a towel and revealed a new logo for the state's $1 billion-a-year lottery. A roomful of people at the lottery commission meeting stared, for the most part, in puzzled silence. They studied the boxy blue and green figure, billed as the symbol of the state's games. It would be on posters. Billboards. Tickets. Finally, Jim Woodward, a lottery commissioner and former chancellor at UNC-Charlotte, wondered about its dominant
Feb 15, 2006, 8:09 am - Lottery News