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Play The N.C. Lottery Over The Internet? It Could HappenReply
Maybe there's a way where there's a will. Maybe not.The casino management folks didn't want to bet several years of their lives in the slammer to find out. One of my proposals to them involved creating a Tribal On-line Casino/Lottery with central offices off-shore, maybe in Costa Rica. Fortunately, that wasn't the thrust of what we were discussing, or they'd have shown me the door before we'd discussed anything else.They believed they had a handle on what could be done, and what couldn't, with
Sep 10, 2005, 8:59 am - Rip Snorter - Lottery News

N.C. newspapers ignore law banning lottery resultsReply
It's another one of those statutes that remain on the books for morality reasons, the same as the old cohabitation laws, he said. If those were enforced, hell, we would have judges in prison. With tongue firmly in cheek, District Attorney Tom Keith yesterday relished the thought of prosecuting journalistic scofflaws. We're going to convene a task force of Republican district attorneys to study this very serious problem, Keith said.And if he decides to pursue the letter of the law, the penalt
Apr 12, 2005, 6:14 pm - Rip Snorter - Lottery News

Boycott launched to protest increase in Lotto 6/49 pricesReply
I have been calculating the possible expected values of the Lotto 649 under the new format. Presently, when the jackpot reaches $10 million (3 rolls), the expected value is around 72%. Under the new format and with a jackpot of $25 million (3 rolls), the expected value may be over 80%. The biggest unknown at this point is the sales. If the sales do not take off when the jackpot reaches $25 million, then expected value may easily exceed 80%.For those players that study expected value and use it t
May 28, 2004, 1:57 pm - Jake649 - Lottery News

Virginia lottery winner badly in debtReply
Another case study in what not to do if you win. You can't do anything about illnesses or medical expenses, but you can do something about dealing with predators like People's Lottery Foundation , belatedly taking the lump sum and then defaulting once you realize what a fix you got involved in.$47,000 a year for 20 years is what seems like a borderline amount to me. It seems to be enough to quit your job, but it really isn't - if you do you are just replacing job income with lottery income, t
May 3, 2004, 11:07 am - tg636 - Lottery News

Paul pitches retirement plan for lottery staff, but board balksNews Story
Tennessee lottery officials yesterday introduced the idea of a retirement program for the 38 employees they've hired this year.Lottery Chief Executive Officer Rebecca Paul asked board members to approve contributing an amount equal to 3% of what employees make the last quarter to a deferred compensation plan. She also asked them for a proposal for a retirement program for the following year.For comparison, she said, the state of Tennessee contributes 7.29% of employee salaries to a pension progr
Dec 16, 2003, 5:29 am - Todd - Lottery News

Alaska Eyeing Powerball, Expanded GamblingNews Story
House Speaker Pete Kott says it's a good bet that plans to expand gambling in Alaska will soon meet success in the state House. Lawmakers and state officials are working over the summer on proposals for video gambling machines and a lottery, both to help ease the state's budget problems. There is even starting to be talk about off-track betting parlors in Alaska.Kott, a Republican from Eagle River, predicts that some form of gaming will move forward in the next legislative session, which starts
Aug 18, 2003, 7:38 am - Todd - Lottery News

CBS publishes second hatchet job on lotteryNews Story
News outfit intent on slamming lotteries CBS News, currently the lowest-rated broadcast network of the big three , today ran its second story in the past month attempting to dig dirt on lotteries in America. In its latest diatribe, CBS News alleges one of the oldest, most widely-spread lottery myths that lotteries prey on the poor and destitute. The problem is, the myth has been disproved time and again by long-term studies, using scientific means. (See Study proves lottery not '
Oct 8, 2007, 12:19 am - Todd - Lottery News

He won $19 million in the lottery — and became a bank robberReply
Reality check; Recidivism rates US According to an April 2011 report by the Pew Center on the States, the average national recidivism rate for released prisoners is 43%.[2] According to the National Institute of Justice, about 68 percent of 405,000 prisoners released in 30 states in 2005 were arrested for a new crime within three years of their release from prison, and 77 percent were arrested within five years.[3] Beginning in the 1990s, the US rate of incarceration increased dra
Oct 4, 2018, 6:49 pm - Coin Toss - Lottery News

Alabama lottery plan approved by Senate committeeNews Story
By a vote of 5-3, the Alabama Senate Tourism Committee on Thursday approved Sen. Del Marsh's (R-Anniston) lottery and gambling expansion plan. It now proceeds to the full Senate for consideration. If passed into law, Alabama voters would have the opportunity to approve a constitutional amendment legalizing a state-sponsored lottery and casino gaming. That vote would likely take place September 15, two weeks before the end of the current fiscal year. The bill would tax casino earnings at 13 pe
May 15, 2015, 8:09 am - Todd - Lottery News

NAACP wants Texas Lottery shut downNews Story
The Dallas chapter of the NAACP wants to stop seeing low income Texans pumping money into the state lottery by putting it out of business. In poorer communities, though, the lottery seems to offer the chance at a life otherwise out of reach. A study paid for by the Texas Lottery Commission says the people most likely to play Pick 3 are those making $20,000 a year or less below the poverty line. And people who are unemployed are more likely to buy scratch-off tickets than those who have job
Jun 28, 2012, 6:02 pm - Todd - Lottery News