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Paul's pay checkedNews Story
With much still to do, lottery organizer faces criticism over salariesWith Tennessee's new lottery set to begin in just three months, Rebecca Paul has a lot to do and little time to do it.Paul and her senior staff must hire contractors, test software, rent offices, hire hundreds of people, train retailers and build a computer network. And those are just the highlights.To get everything done by Feb. 10, Paul works from 9 a.m. to midnight nearly every day - a schedule that hasn't left time for cul
Nov 10, 2003, 4:48 am - Lottery News

Missouri Lottery Saves Players Thousands Through Web SiteNews Story
During the past three years, the Missouri Lottery has been doing more than just saving its players time when entering promotions on-line at its Web site; it has saved players more than $97,000 in postage. Since 2000, players have enjoyed a new option for entering Missouri Lottery promotions entering on-line at the Lottery's Web site, www.molottery.com. With just a few simple keystrokes, players have saved themselves the traditional time and postage costs previously required to participate in
Nov 7, 2003, 4:46 am - Lottery News

Tenn. lottery chief outlines goals during Pinnacle forumNews Story
During a Pinnacle Financial Partners forum Nov. 4, Rebecca Paul, CEO of the Tennessee Education Lottery Corp., revealed some of the pressure she has been under to get the lottery up and running by February. I've been on the job now a total of 43 days, she said. It seems like 43 years. For the next three months, she and her staff expect to be working 16 hours per day, until the first lottery ticket is sold.Paul said there are three things the lottery must do extraordinarily well. One is to know
Nov 6, 2003, 4:51 am - Lottery News

State plans to give lottery vendors prizes for ideas to increase salesNews Story
Illinois Lottery vendors can win prize money from a pot of $200,000 if they generate ideas on how to entice customers to buy more lottery tickets.Gov. Rod Blagojevich's administration is hoping the move will increase revenue for the state, which has been battling a roughly $5 billion deficit. The state-run games of chance have seen flat or declining sales in recent years.There are two sessions, one in Hillside on Nov. 12 and another in Springfield on Nov. 20, in which vendors can enter drawings
Nov 5, 2003, 5:37 am - Lottery News

Tenn. Lottery offices to be housed at MetroCenterNews Story
A former Nortel Networks building in MetroCenter north of downtown will become the new home of the Tennessee lottery.Under preliminary terms, the lottery will lease 55,181 square feet of space on part of the first floor and all of the second floor at about $925,000 in annual rent. It will be a 10-year lease.At an average annual rate of $16.76 per square foot, it was the lowest bid of the three buildings lottery officials looked at seriously, said Steve Adams, the lottery's chief administrative o
Oct 31, 2003, 4:52 am - Lottery News

Governor softens stand on PaulNews Story
Bredesen vows support for state's lottery chiefGov. Phil Bredesen, after criticizing hiring practices by the head of the Tennessee lottery last week, said yesterday that Rebecca Paul has his unqualified support. Bredesen told reporters last week that he had had enough of Paul hiring executives who worked for her in Georgia and paying them high salaries to run Tennessee's games.Because Paul is under pressure to get Tennessee's lottery going before mid-February, Bredesen said from a trade mission
Oct 29, 2003, 4:14 am - Lottery News

Lottery chief defends high salaries of executivesNews Story
Complaints will end once game is operational, CEO Paul saysTennessee Lottery CEO Rebecca Paul on Monday defended the high salaries going to lottery executives and predicted complaints, such as those voiced by a group of Republican legislators, will end when the lottery is up and running. I'm very comfortable that we have hired the best and the brightest to maximize dollars for scholarships, Paul told when asked about a letter to Gov. Phil Bredesen from 19 Republican state legislators.The letter
Oct 28, 2003, 3:50 am - Lottery News

5 proposals for equipment, services submitted for gamesNews Story
6 committee members only ones who will study informationTennessee lottery officials received five proposals yesterday to provide equipment and services for Tennessee lottery games and began to handle them in top-secret fashion.On and off over the next month to six weeks, a six-member evaluation committee of lottery executives will lock itself inside a room to study the proposals. The committee will be the only people who go in or out of that room, said lottery spokesman Will Pinkston.Each propo
Oct 28, 2003, 3:48 am - Lottery News

Officials choose lottery logo; firms put in contract bidsNews Story
Tennessee lottery officials Monday picked a new logo from 100 proposed designs and learned they will have just two bids to choose from for one major vendor contract and three for another.GTECH Inc. and Scientific Games International were the only two firms meeting Monday's deadline for submission of bids to operate the state lottery's online network, which installs machines for selling tickets to statewide and multistate lotteries.Three bids were received for sales of instant tickets, also kno
Oct 28, 2003, 3:45 am - Lottery News

Texas to start Mega Millions in time for holidaysNews Story
Lottery officials are hoping to jingle all the way to the bank this holiday season, as Texans for the first time will be able to buy tickets in their state for the Mega Millions multi-state lottery drawing.Tickets will be on sale Dec. 3. The first drawing in Texas is targeted for Dec. 5.Jackpots start at $10 million and have averaged $42.3 million over the past year. But lottery officials in Texas and 10 other states that participate anticipate a much larger bounty.The Texas Lottery Commission e
Oct 23, 2003, 3:53 am - Lottery News