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Michigan to launch online lottery games late next yearNews Story
Michigan will sell lottery tickets and offer games online in a year's time after two companies were chosen Monday to run an iLottery billed as a way to help fund public schools and keep the lottery relevant. The decision came five months after lottery officials indefinitely halted their plans because lawmakers rejected Gov. Rick Snyder's funding request to launch the online lottery. Legislators, however, did not prohibit the Lottery Bureau from spending existing money in its budget to offer I
Nov 26, 2013, 7:41 am - Todd - Lottery News

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Wasn't always that way. But frankly, there is no way a jail can operate without at least 4 inmates these days. You know where this started? Washington, D.C, like most of the least common sense, destructive ideas. It began when the federal government started funding small town jails. A locally funded jail, overseen by a local judege will allow more than a local judge who oversees a federally funded jail. If you are sentenced to 90 days, you'll get out in a local jail in 30 - 60. In a fed
Jun 20, 2013, 5:58 pm - garyo1954 - Lottery Discussion Forum

Oklahoma lottery making strides to increase prizesNews Story
Oklahoma lottery officials voted Tuesday to reduce the amount of money paid to nearly 2,000 retailers that sell lottery tickets to increase prizes in almost a last resort to boost sales. The Lottery Commission has reduced its operating costs to less than 2.5 percent of its $192 million in revenue by reducing office space and cutting the number of staff from 40 to 26, said Rollo Redburn, the agency's executive director. Operating expenses were cut from $9.7 million in 2008 to $4.8 million t
Mar 20, 2013, 9:23 am - Todd - Lottery News

N.J. Assembly approves measures to slow Gov.'s plan to privatize lotteryNews Story
The New Jersey Assembly Monday passed a measure that would force Gov. Chris Christie to seek the Legislature's approval for his plan to privatize parts of the state lottery, which Democratic lawmakers said is being pushed through under the radar without oversight. The bill (A3614), approved 45-29, largely along party lines, would give the Legislature the power to reject or accept the 15-year, $120 million contract the Christie administration is reviewing. Current law does not require Christie
Jan 29, 2013, 6:52 am - Todd - Lottery News

UK Lottery operator bids for Pennsylvania lotteryNews Story
Pennsylvania received one bid in response to its search for a private manager to run the state's lottery system, officials announced Tuesday. Gov. Tom Corbett's administration announced on Tuesday that a priced bid and 20 years' worth of annual profit commitments has come in from United Kingdom-based Camelot Global Services PA LLC. Camelot, the firm that currently operates the United Kingdom's lottery, was the only company to submit a bid outlining how much revenue it pledged to raise over
Nov 20, 2012, 6:30 pm - Todd - Lottery News

N.J. Assembly panel clears one-year anonymity for lottery winnersNews Story
Twenty-five years ago, Evelyn Adams had the unimaginable luck of winning the lottery twice in two years. But opportunity morphed into misfortune for Adams, who ended up broke and living in a trailer after giving away and gambling away $5.4 million. Everybody wanted my money, the Ocean County woman told the website Bankrate.com in 2004. Everybody had their hand out. I never learned one simple word in the English language 'no.' Monday, a state Assembly panel sought to close the barn doo
Sep 25, 2012, 8:30 am - Todd - Lottery News

Penn. Lottery seeking outside help for marketing effortsReply
Stop the financial forecasting and work with what you have PA. Their projections about a scenario that might take place 18 years from now are just one more thing to use as an excuse for pushing more tickets, higher priced games, lower top prizes and payouts (or the other way around: high top prizes with fewer winners and payouts and more money for the bean counters to drool over) The lottery in PA as in any state is a huge money maker. It's a definite cash cow. SOMEONE is not happy with
Apr 6, 2012, 9:37 pm - dr65 - Lottery News

Washington Gov. proposes privatizing state's lotteryNews Story
Washington Gov. Chris Gregoire on Thursday floated the idea of privatizing the state lottery system as a way to bring in more money for education. I want to be clear: I am not proposing that the lottery expand gambling, Gregoire said at a news conference. Private-sector operation of the lottery would be the lottery that we have today. She wants the Legislature to approve having the lottery solicit proposals from private vendors to run the operation. The idea would be to see if the pri
Dec 16, 2011, 8:49 am - Todd - Lottery News

Mass. state senator wants online lottery ticket salesNews Story
A Beacon Hill push under way today to sell Massachusetts Lottery tickets online which backers say could boost cash-strapped state coffers by as much as $1 billion a year is getting strong support from an unlikely corner liberal icon U.S. Rep. Barney Frank. I don't understand why liberals think they're supposed to tell people not to gamble, Frank told the Herald yesterday. They favor gay marriage, legalization of marijuana and sex-oriented literature, but not gambling. It's totally inconsiste
Jul 19, 2011, 11:25 am - Todd - Lottery News

Atheist converts after mock prayer to win $1M lottery is answeredReply
That makes perfecttiming even more of a dumbass for making things up about the word AGNOSTIC. Below is her definition: IGNORAMUS So basically, anyone who boast about being an agnostic is calling themselves an ignorant, know-nothing, uneducated person.....OUCH!....(I can see why some atheist want to downplay the usage of the word altogether). Below is from Merriam Webster: Definition of AGNOSTIC 1 : a person who holds the view that any ultimate reality (as God) is unkno
Jun 22, 2011, 5:30 pm - joker17 - Lottery News