N.C. Lottery may end video poker
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.
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Feb 24, 2006, 8:12 am - - Lottery News forum
N.C. Lottery finally gets a logo
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 forum
New N.C. Lottery ad agency picked after earlier winner withdraws
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.
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Feb 21, 2006, 12:20 pm - - Lottery News forum
N.C. lottery is quickly piling up a lot of dirty laundry
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 forum
Judge: N.C. lottery can keep working, but challenge remains alive
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 forum
Lawsuit Challenging N.C. Lottery Still Alive
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 forum
N.C. Lottery funding controversy widens
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 forum
N.C. Lottery staff used common clip art to create logo
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 forum
N.C. Lottery has false start on logo
North Carolina lottery officials unveiled the logo Tuesday they wanted to print on thousands of ticket machines and place in television commercials leading up to the lottery's planned March 30 launch.
Make that the now-defunct logo. Officials later found out someone else might have the copyright to the image.
N.C. Education Lottery director Tom Shaheen revealed the logo at a public meeting of his bosses, the nine-member lottery commission. Shaheen, who has worked for lotteries in several s ...
Feb 15, 2006, 7:10 am - - Lottery News forum
N.C. Lottery under fire in court; Judge may suspend progress
A Superior Court judge said he would decide this week whether the state should stop work on launching a lottery while lawyers debate whether the game is legal.
A group of plaintiffs, led by former N.C. Supreme Court Justice Bob Orr, asked Judge Henry Hight to impose the delay during a two-hour hearing Monday. Orr said House and Senate leaders violated the state constitution in their rush to get the lottery passed last year.
The question is 'does political expediency trump the state consti ...
Feb 14, 2006, 11:00 am - - Lottery News forum
