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Texas Lottery worker is fired after e-mailNews Story
The Texas lottery fired a senior systems analyst on Friday, hours after a newspaper reported that he had sent a scathing e-mail to two state lawmakers claiming that the agency misled the Legislature about an emergency control center that he says doesn't work.Shelton Charles told The Associated Press that he was fired Friday afternoon for insubordination after he refused to answer lottery officials' questions about the emergency operations center unless they put them in writing.Lottery spokesman
Nov 8, 2005, 8:00 am - Todd - Lottery News

N.C. lottery ticket sales might begin in AprilNews Story
It will probably be April or later before anyone is able to buy a North Carolina lottery ticket, the lottery commissioner in charge of laying down rules for contractors said Monday.Robert Farris is chairman of the vendor selection subcommittee, which met for the first time Monday to begin drafting the official request the state lottery would make to businesses for help in running the lottery.During the meeting, Farris said that before any companies were asked to offer their services to the state
Oct 26, 2005, 9:25 am - Todd - Lottery News

Enjoy good old days now. Almost gone.
One day someone will come along and they will post numbers for the entire country. Numbers based on statistics, history, and facts using very powerful programs. They will post Straights. These numbers will hit with great accuracy and in a very timely manner not dreamed of until now. They will hit with enough frequency and accuracy to cause a great sea-change in the industry. Before you get to excited consider this. It will happen so quickly and stop so suddenly very few individuals will hav
Oct 24, 2005, 5:59 pm - WIN D - Lottery Discussion Forum

N.C. lottery now has official Internet siteNews Story
The North Carolina lottery is now officially online, even though the first games aren't.Late Thursday, the state started the Web site http://lottery.nc.gov/ with information about the lottery that was signed into law Aug. 31.At its first meeting last week, the nine-member lottery commission agreed that an Internet presence was needed as soon as possible.The Web site also sets out the job description for the lottery executive director's position. The position also is expected to be posted in news
Oct 14, 2005, 8:21 am - Todd - Lottery News

Texas Lottery critic applies for Director positionNews Story
Dawn Nettles, the Garland woman who has made criticizing the troubled Texas Lottery Commission a full-time job in recent years, is applying for the job of running the state agency. My goal is to clean up the lottery, run it honestly and still make money for the state, Nettles said this morning. I'm a trouble-shooter, and I know the lottery players. Nettles, who publishes the online Lotto Report, was first to alert the Texas Attorney General's Office that then-Executive Director Reagan Greer ha
Sep 12, 2005, 6:41 pm - Todd - Lottery News

Clerk admits stealing Indiana lottery ticketsNews Story
A former convenience store clerk has pleaded guilty to stealing thousands of dollars' worth of scratch off Hoosier Lottery tickets from two stores she managed.Karen Valentine was sentenced Tuesday to two years in a work release program and ordered by a Vanderburgh County Circuit Court judge to pay $2,500 in restitution.Valentine said she took only $2,000 to $3,000 worth of tickets from the two Busler stores in Evansville where she had worked. However, an outside audit found the combined ticket s
Sep 1, 2005, 6:48 pm - Todd - Lottery News

Redundant Mega Millions lottery bill passes Calif. Senate CommitteeNews Story
A Senate committee, on a bipartisan vote, approved a measure Tuesday to legalize California's participation in Mega Millions lotto without the testimony of lottery officials who maintain the multi-state game is already legal. They had the audacity not to show up, said Sen. Dean Florez, a Bakersfield-area Democrat who authored the bill.A group that opposes gambling expansion has filed a lawsuit that alleges Mega Millions participation violates the voter-approved constitutional amendment that t
Aug 17, 2005, 7:09 pm - Todd - Lottery News

Texas Lottery considering guaranteed jackpotsNews Story
Texas Lottery officials are considering guaranteed jackpots to help avoid inflated estimates like the one in June that prompted a consumer complaint to the state attorney general and cost the agency director his job.New jackpot prize guidelines proposed Monday include a guarantee the winner collect either the advertised amount or the amount calculated by sales, whichever is greater. The guarantees would apply to jackpots paid with the 25-year annuity, not to winners who choose the immediate cash
Aug 16, 2005, 6:53 am - Todd - Lottery News

New Mexico Lottery still looking for $93 million Powerball winnerReply
I don't see the US lotteries ever doing away with taxes on lottery winners (or anything else, once they've got a lock on it).To be honest, I don't even object to the first-crack-out-of-the-box jackpot being, what? $5 million and some change, before taxes? Maybe $3 million after taxes.What I object to is the fact that those billboards advertise something that isn't so. I believe they do it because they know if they announced in billboard letters how much they're actually giving away, people wou
Aug 13, 2005, 10:09 am - Rip Snorter - Lottery News

Powerball sales skid hurts lottery profitsReply
Interesting information. How'd you come by it?My impression has always been the 'most players' buy tickets whenever they happen to think about it while they're in a convenience store, but that those same 'most players' remember more frequently and buy more tickets when the jackpot is higher.I'm not saying you're wrong, but I will say that I think you're wrong, that you don't know anymore than anyone else about what 'most players' like or don't like. You and I have to guess about such things u
Jul 27, 2005, 8:09 pm - Rip Snorter - Lottery News