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Nevada Assembly passes lottery measureNews Story
Passage of Nevada lottery bill is only the first step in a four-year processA resolution to legalize a Nevada state lottery was approved 33-9 Monday in the Assembly after supporters emphasized profits would buy textbooks for schoolchildren. Nevadans already buy lottery tickets, said Assembly Speaker Richard Perkins, D-Henderson. They buy them in California. California kids have schoolbooks. Nevada kids don't. In an earlier hearing, Perkins cited a poll showing that 73 percent of Nevadans suppo
Mar 8, 2005, 10:39 am - Lottery News

Third N.C. lottery bill proposedNews Story
Another state lottery bill is in the North Carolina General Assembly. The bill is the third lottery proposal made this year and would not require a vote of the people.The idea of a state lottery has already surfaced during this legislative session. One bill filed in the House would create a local-option lottery, where counties could vote individually to support or reject it.Another bill would set up a lottery referendum to allow voters across the state to share their views.The new bill calls on
Mar 7, 2005, 7:18 am - Lottery News

World Games officials face probeNews Story
Officials of global pyramid lottery scheme face tax evasion chargesA lawyer representing disgruntled investors in the controversial World Games Inc. (WGI) has reported WGI's Norwegian officials to the country's white collar crime unit kokrim.An kokrim official confirmed the federal agency that investigates and persecutes economic crimes in Norway had received the filing from lawyer Olav Sylte.He represents 8 people who are demanding the return of around NOK 1.2 million from WGI officials in No
Mar 1, 2005, 10:43 am - Lottery News

Lottery proposal faces long odds in NevadaNews Story
Motivated by a struggling education system, Nevada lawmakers are trying for the 23rd time since 1975 to establish a statewide lottery by amending the Nevada Constitution. They say a history of failures and past opposition by the states dominant casino industry wont keep them from trying again.Advocates say a lotterys potential profits, after prizes and operating expenses are deducted, could generate from $30 million to $70 million each year for education money they say is sorely needed.Nevada ra
Feb 28, 2005, 1:02 pm - Lottery News

N.C. Gov. renews call for lotteryNews Story
North Carolina Governor Mike Easley renewed his commitment to establishing a state lottery in his State of the State Address last night.Although Easley said that his proposed budget will not include money from a lottery, budget analysts say that a state lottery could raise at least $300 million a year.Easley recounted during his speech a man at a church who was against the lottery. He was selling me a raffle ticket at the time. Well, I'm for the education raffle, Easley said.In 2002 Easley f
Feb 22, 2005, 11:37 am - Lottery News

Officials form lottery pool in attempt to clear town's debtNews Story
Local officials in a small German town are banking on a lottery win to keep the local council from going bust.Town councilors in Blumberg near the Swiss border say their community of 10,660 residents has one of the largest debts in Germany, at 1,700 per head.The group of local politicians have now formed a lottery syndicate [pool], playing twice a week with their own money.Local finance officer Thomas Lauble said: The most important figures in my week are now the seven numbers drawn each Wedne
Feb 21, 2005, 11:30 am - Lottery News

Group fearful of lottery in AlabamaNews Story
A Washington, D.C.-based public policy group called The Tax Foundation issued warnings about a new lottery campaign aimed at Alabamians.It's an advertising drive in east Alabama thanking residents for driving to Georgia to buy lottery tickets, said Bill Ahern, spokesman for the group, which recently studied state lotteries and their impact.The campaign will feature a clerk in a Georgia store who points out that Alabama money has helped fund his children's college education. It's all going to be
Feb 21, 2005, 9:13 am - Lottery News

N.C. lottery has a fighting chance this yearNews Story
If a lottery is going to be approved in North Carolina, this just might be the year.At least the 2005 session of the General Assembly appears to offer the best chance ever, for it to happen, said state Rep. Billy Owens, D-Pasquotank, a perennial lottery supporter.But Owens also said the window for winning a lottery for North Carolina is starting to shut. He characterizes 2005-06 as the last chance, mainly because the political makeup of the General Assembly could shift, making it even more diffi
Feb 10, 2005, 12:30 pm - Lottery News

Wyoming lottery bill barely nixedNews Story
On a split vote, the Wyoming House narrowly defeated legislation allowing residents to play the Powerball lottery.The vote was 29-29, two votes shy of passage, with two representatives excused. Nothing in this bill talks about the addiction, said Rep. Rodney Pete Anderson, R-Pine Bluffs, who led the opposition. It preys upon those who are on the fringe. ... Instead of buying things the family needs, they're buying lottery tickets. They're buying a lot of false hope. He also argued that state
Feb 9, 2005, 9:12 am - Lottery News

Arkansas legislator wants voters to decide on state lotteryNews Story
A west Arkansas legislator is proposing a constitutional amendment to authorize a state lottery to benefit public schools.Representative Buddy Blair of Fort Smith introduced a resolution Thursday that would lift Arkansas' constitutional ban on lotteries and authorize the state to run them.Proceeds would be strictly earmarked to funding court-ordered upgrades to public school buildings and equipment. Blair said a lottery would generate about $50 million annually.Blair is hoping the Legislature w
Feb 4, 2005, 11:00 am - Lottery News