N.C. lottery unlikely for this term
Dont bet on buying a lottery ticket in North Carolina anytime soon.Gov. Mike Easley, who has advocated a lottery since before he took office in 2001, continues to push for a lottery. But even the primary supporter of a North Carolina lottery in the state House said it would not happen this year.The 2004 short session of the General Assembly is supposed to tackle the states budget and non-controversial issues, House Co-Speakers Richard Morgan, R-Moore, and Jim Black, D-Mecklenburg, have said.Its ...
May 17, 2004, 7:33 am - - Lottery News forum
Lottery bill would let N.C. counties decide to join
The North Carolina Legislature's newest lottery bill would give counties the option to participate in a state-run numbers game in which they would receive a portion of the proceeds for school construction.The measure filed by Rep. Bill Owens, D-Pasquotank, would allow county commissioners the authority to call an election on whether to operate the lottery in that county. A state-run lottery could be started once voters in 25 counties agree to participate in one.One-quarter of all revenues genera ...
May 11, 2004, 7:27 am - - Lottery News forum
North Carolina man wins $100,000 in Virginia lottery
It seems that James Lawson's phone has been ringing a lot more these days. Reidsville is a small town, he says. News travel fast around here. The news: the 55-year-old retired tobacco plant worker won $100,000 Friday in the Virginia Cash 5 Lottery.Lawson learned of his winnings while watching golf on television. From his Reidsville home, he is able to pick up a Roanoke television station that broadcasts the lottery numbers at 2 and 11 p.m. every Monday through Saturday.Once the numbers were ...
Mar 31, 2004, 4:37 am - - Lottery News forum
GOP candidates show flexibility towards N.C. lottery
Republicans competing for the North Carolina gubernatorial nomination are showing more flexibility on the issue of a lottery than they did four years ago, but few seem to view the issue as a lynchpin in this year's campaign.While four of six major GOP candidates make similar arguments against a numbers game, Southern Pines insurance executive George Little wants everyone to know he's different. Unlike most of the candidates in this race, I support the right of the people to vote on an advisory r ...
Mar 23, 2004, 4:21 am - - Lottery News forum
School Board Discusses Resolution Supporting N.C. Lottery
School Leaders Say Money Spent In Virginia Could Be Spent On N.C. EducationNorth Carolina school leaders near Virginia seem especially passionate about the lottery money that goes north of the border.They want it spent here on education. Tuesday night, the Roanoke Rapids school system is expected to become the first in North Carolina to try to make that happen.Virginia welcomes travelers headed north into Greensville County. Just a few miles up the interstate Tuesday, a convenience Store in Skip ...
Feb 18, 2004, 5:27 am - - Lottery News forum
N.C. man claims $12.6 million Lotto South jackpot
An Elizabeth City, North Carolina man who bought a lottery ticket on a whim after getting stuck in Chesapeake traffic won a $12.6 million jackpot, the Virginia Lottery announced Thursday.Hubert Griffin, a retired U. S. Army staff sergeant and former North Carolina corrections officer, was the only ticket holder to match all six numbers of the Lotto South jackpot on Saturday.It was the largest Virginia Lottery jackpot ever won by a North Carolinian, said Ed Scarborough, a Virginia Lottery spokesm ...
Jan 30, 2004, 6:47 am - - Lottery News forum
Easley continues quest for N.C. lottery
Entering the last year of his first term, Gov. Mike Easley is looking back on a busy year and preparing for his upcoming re-election campaign.After consecutive years of budget shortfalls, this year's budget seems to be on target. He fulfilled campaign promises to lower class sizes in the early elementary grades. But getting the General Assembly to approve a statewide lottery still eludes him.Easley sailed through national disasters such as Hurricane Isabel and survived man-made storms, such as t ...
Jan 26, 2004, 6:57 am - - Lottery News forum
N.C. surrounded by state gambling
Tennessees launch of a state lottery on Tuesday leaves North Carolina surrounded by states sponsoring gambling games.The arrival of Tennessees lottery will dventually be a timesaver for Gail Nelson of Waynesville. A couple of times a year, she makes the 90-minute drive to Landrum, S.C., to buy $20 worth of lottery tickets for multimillion-dollar drawings.Her Haywood County home is just 30 minutes from the Tennessee line, and she said shell visit the Volunteer State once its lottery grows beyond ...
Jan 20, 2004, 6:16 am - - Lottery News forum
Sparks fly at N.C. lottery forum
The arguing, at times, seemed personal on a panel which featured everyone from lawmakers to ministers.At issue -- just how much money is being lost to border states like South Carolina, which has a lottery. The state has noticed most sales tax rise in history on things like chips since the lottery came, said panelist Gardner Payne. We're losing that money to those states. Last December, North Carolina drivers poured across the border for the $100-million-plus Powerball drawing.Governor Easley ...
Oct 17, 2003, 4:48 am - - Lottery News forum
N.C. Lottery debate: You can bet both sides will be passionate
Aside from what it might cost to put together, or to pay out prizes, or what it's social costs might be, there is much more interesting question right now: How much would it cost North Carolinians to debate a state lottery?The question of whether this state ought to have a lottery is sleeping right now. And it will be months before even the prospect of waking it will come. Like a lot of political trends in North Carolina, it certainly won't be resolved this year, or next, but the state draws clo ...
Oct 13, 2003, 3:48 am - - Lottery News forum
