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Illinois Lottery exploring Internet sales againNews Story
Could keno be out and Internet lottery in?A proposal from last spring to authorize Internet sales of Illinois lottery tickets popped up again Thursday, a week after Gov. Rod Blagojevich unveiled a controversial initiative to include keno in the lottery as a way to finance school construction bonds.A Blagojevich spokeswoman said the governor was not backing off the keno proposal but seemed to hedge her bets. We are willing to consider other ideas from the General Assembly, Rebecca Rausch said.Th
Jan 20, 2006, 10:57 am - Todd - Lottery News

Texas legislature defeats Internet lottery billReply
LOTTOMIKE:Of course you're correct; in a true democracy, the majority rules. Period. Case in point: Kennesaw, Georgia 1982, when the following law was passed by referendum:Sec. 34-1 Heads of households to maintain firearms.(a) In order to provide for the emergency management of the City, and further in order to provide for and protect the safety, security and general welfare of the city and its inhabitants, every head of household residing in the City limits is required to maintain a firearm, to
May 9, 2005, 4:31 pm - jim695 - Lottery News

NJ may ban smoking in casinosNews Story
Acting New Jersey Governor Richard J. Codey may use the power the position he stumbled into when Gov. McGreevey resigned last year to push an aggressive anti-smoking agenda, which would even include banning smoking in New Jersey casinos.Codey's flip-flop on the smoking ban has restaurants, casinos, and small business owners upset. The marketplace not the government should decide if it makes sense to allow people to smoke in certain areas, they contend.The proposal to ban smoking in most public
Mar 10, 2005, 8:30 am - Todd - Lottery News

Record Powerball lottery winner ordered into substance abuse programReply
Maverick:Thanks for your comments; I'm always glad to hear from you, even when you don't agree with me, because you actually contribute something to the topics that interest you.I don't necessarily believe that the working man is a sucker. Quite the contrary; without unskilled labor, mass production might still be nothing more than an idea bouncing around in someone's head, but with no manpower to carry the concept to fruition.The point I was trying to make is that a man with an MBA can steal hu
Dec 10, 2004, 12:56 pm - jim695 - Lottery News

Are Computerized Lottery Drawings Truly Random?Reply
In addition to the quote by Todd, this story features two LotteryPost members: Losingjeff and Jim695.We worked with Mr. Leininger for a year to bring this story to press. Some things not mentioned in the article:The Hoosier Lottery downloaded their Computerized Electronic Random Number Generator from the internet, according to Joe Pfister, their CPA. They don't see anything wrong with this. The same disk was used to upload the code to two PC's, which serve as our official draw machines.One of
Jun 21, 2004, 11:25 am - jim695 - Lottery News

8 GM workers to share $12 million Texas lottery prizeNews Story
Debra Hicks never had much luck until 10:12 p.m. Wednesday.For years, she bought lottery scratch-off tickets, dropped a few dollars on football pools and went to Las Vegas for vacation. But she never won big until she and seven co-workers at the General Motors plant in Arlington struck a $12 million Lotto Texas jackpot. I've always felt unlucky, she said from work Thursday. My time finally came. Ms. Hicks can now boast about being a lottery winner, but she and her colleagues don't get the tit
Feb 27, 2004, 4:36 am - Todd - Lottery News

$600 MILLION: Mega Millions jackpot soars after no winner FridayReply
It's the cash value that the lottery starts with, and then it calculates the annuity based on prevailing interest rates. I know how it works. That's why I commented about a cash value increase of about $7 million being reported as a $30 million increase in the advertised value. I think most of the other people here know it, too, but the advertised annuity value is what we see most from the lotteries, and I hear there's also a well know website that uses it more than the cash value, titling
Jan 10, 2021, 4:25 am - KY Floyd - Lottery News

GTECH explains pricey N.J. Lottery contractNews Story
Seeking to justify a price tag of nearly $32 million more than a competitor to run the New Jersey's lottery for the next five years, representatives of the state's lottery operator said Wednesday that their system is more convenient for vendors and would result in less down time and lost revenues for the state. Representatives for GTech, which won a new contract despite bidding $106.7 million to Scientific Games' $75 million, said the higher price comes with more assurance that its terminals
Oct 12, 2006, 2:48 pm - Todd - Lottery News

California lottery struggles with tepid salesNews Story
Though California and its schools are begging for cash, one of the state's supposed gold mines produces roughly half of what it should for education, analysts say.But officials at the languishing state-run lottery say there's hope the operation will be shipping nearly another $1 billion annually to schools.It first, however, must succeed in throwing off woes such as legal restrictions on games, which some say are outdated in this age of widespread Indian gambling, and then generate an excitement
Jul 15, 2004, 9:30 am - Todd - Lottery News

Alabama Supreme Court finds that casinos are operating illegallyNews Story
State will shut down casinos in question By Kate Northrop The Alabama Supreme Court on Friday ruled that several casinos in the state are to be shut down after they were found to be in violation of Alabama's gambling laws. Court case State v. Epic Tech, LLC came to a close with the Alabama Supreme Court's decision that casinos are operating illegally in the state. The Alabama Supreme Court found itself in agreement with the Attorney General's assertion that the Southern Star, Whi
Oct 4, 2022, 5:59 pm - Todd - Lottery News