Ohio's interim lottery chief given official title

Comment #9

ONEDAY — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 01:03:24 GMT

nahhhhh..but a goverment agency is more likely to uphold the standards better then private compaines who look ways to get more profit from the machines.

Comment #8

rdgrnr — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 01:55:27 GMT

Oh yeah, you better believe they keep tabs on all that stuff.

I remember when we had a democrat Governor in TN and he jacked up the taxes on cigarettes so high everybody was going out of state for cigarettes.

Well he sent unmarked TN State Troopers to sit in the parking lots of Virginia stores on the border to see if anybody with TN tags was coming out with more than a carton of cigarettes and if they were, they'd radio ahead and they'd be pulled over and ticketed for tax violations and ci... [ More ]

Comment #7

Stack47 — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 23:42:57 GMT

WVA's Lottery and Horse Racing Association put slot machines in their race tracks many years ago. Today they are full service casinos and the Lottery and the horse people still share the profits. And PA did something similar.

Someone must have told the Ohio Legislators about all the Ohio license plates in the WVA and PA casino parking lots.

Comment #6

temptustoo — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 23:32:54 GMT

Why should governments reap the rewards.. All of this should be in private hands. just my opinion.. You must really trust our state and local governments.. Baa-Baa/// sheeples..

Comment #5

ONEDAY — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 22:09:41 GMT

yes the lottery running the slots is the best way for more fairity I would think...

Comment #4

TheRightPrice — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 18:57:37 GMT

I don't think anyone is reading this story with PB's 325 million Jazkpot.

Comment #3

cbr$ — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 17:41:18 GMT

congrat's to Mr Berg. Nice idea to combine the pony races with the slots. Add a place to purchase your lottery ticket from to this. It will become a gambler's paradise. Total bliss

Comment #2

rdgrnr — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 16:37:08 GMT

Lottery run slots don't sound like a bad idea to me.

I'd feel more confident in the uniformity of return factor than I would in casinos where I've heard they adjust the rate of return differently on various machines based on their location and such. It would be nice to know you had the same chances of winning on any machine you pick.

Course if they ever had them in TN, I'd just go play the ones closest to the Government Center in Nashville.

Comment #1

maringoman — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 16:18:54 GMT

The lottery has had 10 straight years of sales growth, posting a record $2.6 billion in sales in fiscal 2011

If that is not the pointer that times are tough in Ohio and elsewhere, I dont know what is.

Ohio's interim lottery chief given official title

Lottery Post — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 15:59:46 GMT

Dennis R. Berg has been named director of the Ohio Lottery, Gov. John Kasich announced on Friday.

Berg had been the lottery's interim director since Jan. 10, 2011, appointed to that role just days after Kasich took office.

Berg formerly served as the lottery's deputy director of finance and has worked for the state agency since 1991.

The lottery has had 10 straight years of sales growth, posting a record $2.6 billion in sales in fiscal 2011.

And the agency could be on tap for more. T... [ More ]