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Oklahoma closer to selecting new lottery directorNews Story
In about six months, a new Oklahoma state agency will have to be built from the ground up and thousands of retailers across the state will have to be trained and outfitted to sell lottery tickets.With about $62 million in lottery revenue already included in the proposed budget for the fiscal year that starts July 1, the state has a lot riding on having some form of lottery operational as soon as possible.Once the lottery is fully operational, state finance officials estimate $150 million will be
May 9, 2005, 10:15 am - Lottery News

Mass. Lottery to hire consultant for games being plannedNews Story
Massachusetts State Lottery officials said they intend to hire a consultant to evaluate the financial impact of several gambling games under consideration, including a virtual horse-racing game run on Keno-style monitors.State lawmakers last week raised concerns about the game's impact on the live and simulcast horse-racing industry.Lottery officials said the consultant, expected to issue a report by midsummer, will analyze how the horse-racing game and other games still on the drawing board wou
Apr 22, 2005, 10:15 am - Lottery News

Wisconsin lawmakers vote down plan to privatize state LotteryNews Story
Wisconsin lawmakers on Wednesday voted down a proposal in Gov. Jim Doyle's budget bill to privatize half of the work at the Wisconsin lottery.The Legislature's Joint Finance Committee voted 10-6 to delete a provision that would have eliminated 55 of 109 positions at the lottery.Doyle's plan called for the private sector to take over the lottery's sales and marketing, ticket warehousing and distribution, product development, special events, and Web site operations, while state employees would sti
Apr 21, 2005, 1:18 pm - Lottery News

Interim Virginia Lottery director appointedNews Story
The Virginia governor has promoted a Virginia Lottery administrator as its interim executive director.Donna VanCleave will take over the job June 1st. She'll succeed Penelope Kyle, who's leaving the lottery post to become the president of Radford University.VanCleave started work at the Virginia Lottery in 1997 and has served as Budget and Planning Manager and is now the Director of Finance.She's also worked at Virginia State University, and the Virginia Department of Planning and Budget.VanCle
Apr 15, 2005, 9:45 am - Lottery News

Oklahoma Lottery Commission Seeking Executive DirectorNews Story
Every day the state goes without a lottery is a lost opportunity for education funding, the Oklahoma Lottery Commission was told Tuesday by three people involved in starting up lotteries in other states.Hiring an executive director is the most important step and must be done quickly, said Rebecca Graham Paul, president and chief executive officer of Tennessee's lottery, which started up last year.Lottery commissioners have received 15 applications for executive director. Paul said the commission
Mar 30, 2005, 10:15 am - Lottery News

Oklahoma Lottery Commission Starts Search For DirectorNews Story
Oklahoma's new Lottery Commission Tuesday began preparing the process for hiring an executive director.The commissioners will start by approving a job description for the post. They will also decide how they should solicit applications.Tuesday's meeting at the Capitol was the commission's first since its seven members were named last month.
Mar 10, 2005, 12:12 pm - Lottery News

Virginia lottery director becomes university presidentNews Story
On Thursday, Virginia Lottery director Penelope Ward Kyle was named the next president of Radford University.The Galax native brings with her more than a decade's experience in state government and years of service on public college boards. The Radford presidency will be her first job in higher education administration.Radford officials expect Kyle, who begins in June after Douglas Covington retires, to be a major fund-raiser for the university. She talked with The Roanoke Times on Friday about
Mar 7, 2005, 12:45 pm - Lottery News

NJ interim Gov. nominates new lottery directorNews Story
Michellene Davis, a lawyer and veteran state policy adviser, has been nominated to be the next executive director of the New Jersey Lottery.Acting Gov. Richard J. Codey announced the nomination Friday. Davis succeeds Virginia Bauer, a 9/11 widow tapped to head the lottery in 2003 and picked by former Gov. James E. McGreevey as commerce secretary in July. William T. Jourdain has been filling in at the lottery since Bauer moved to commerce.Davis will serve as acting executive director, starting Ma
Feb 28, 2005, 11:29 am - Lottery News

Oklahoma lottery board sworn inNews Story
Oklahoma Governor Brad Henry presided over the first meeting of the Oklahoma Education Lottery Commission on Wednesday, urging members to move quickly in hopes of getting the lottery up and running this fall. This will be the only time that I will preside over the Oklahoma Education Lottery Commission. I'm kind of excited about it, Henry said before the seven members of the panel were sworn in by Oklahoma Supreme Court Chief Justice Joe Watt.The governor, who led the fight for approval of the l
Feb 25, 2005, 12:57 pm - Lottery News

Oklahoma Lottery Commission Holds First Meeting TodayNews Story
Oklahoma's Education Lottery Commission holds its first meeting this afternoon at the state Capitol.The seven-member commission was appointed by Governor Henry on Monday. It will establish the framework for the statewide lottery approved by voters last November.Henry says he hopes to have scratch-off lottery games by October or November with electronic games beginning about six months after that and Powerball-type games by the fall of 2006. The lottery is expected to produce $150 million for edu
Feb 23, 2005, 1:49 pm - Lottery News