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Oregon Lottery Drops Plan to Cut Taverns' CommissionsNews Story
The Oregon Lottery director said Monday that she plans to rework her controversial proposal to cut bar and tavern owners' video poker compensation.Director Brenda Rocklin's initial proposal turned out to yield far less revenue for state-funded programs than first estimated, prompting calls from education advocates and others for more drastic reductions in the share of video poker proceeds that bars and taverns are allowed to keep as compensation.But bars, taverns and restaurants and their trade
Mar 17, 2004, 5:11 am - Todd - Lottery News

Oregon pays lottery sites larger share, audit findsNews Story
Leaders say the report shows retailers' portion of proceeds should be cut, but a lobbyist disagreesThe Oregon State Lottery pays retailers a bigger cut than similar operations do, a state auditors' report says, a finding that could bolster a long-standing drive to lower the compensation that bars and taverns get for carrying video poker machines.Oregon retailers receive on average 32 percent of the net proceeds from video poker -- about $159 million last fiscal year -- according to the report re
Jan 30, 2004, 6:50 am - Todd - Lottery News

State lottery kickoff nearsNews Story
Officials optimistic excess funds will mean win for construction, early at-risk programsAbout six weeks from now, Tennesseans will be able to participate in their own state lottery, and through it finance higher education for 65,000 students. The process is moving very smoothly and rapidly, Rebecca Paul, lottery CEO, told her board of directors recently.Feb. 10 is the target start-up date for sales of instant winner lottery tickets. Paul says 3,000 retail outlets will be ready to sell tickets
Dec 29, 2003, 5:11 am - Todd - Lottery News

Maine Lottery adopts rules to ban bulk ticket purchasesNews Story
Maine joins growing number of states defending against jackpot buyouts By Kate Northrop It's official bulk lottery ticket purchases are illegal in Maine, making it the latest state to adopt laws in defense against organized groups aiming to buy jackpots. The Maine Lottery has adopted new rules to ban bulk ticket purchases for any of its games. Maine has now become part of the growing number of lotteries across the country taking steps to curtail ticket buying behavior that inten
May 12, 2026, 7:16 am - Todd - Lottery News

Florida bill would enhance criminal penalties for lottery retailer theft and fraudNews Story
Bill targets retailers and employees who steal tickets from the workplace By Kate Northrop A Florida Senator filed a bill on Monday that would enact harsher penalties on lottery retailer employees who conduct ticket theft schemes and would crack down on those who falsify prize claims. Florida Senator Corey Simon proposed a bill that tightens up Florida Lottery security measures and targets individuals attempting to steal tickets from their workplace or make false prize claims. Se
Nov 19, 2025, 9:11 am - Todd - Lottery News

$83.5 million Lotto Texas winner sues Texas Lottery for unpaid jackpotReply
I did not make an argument that lesser winners were not paid or claimed that Courier services were illegal. To the best of my knowledge, there is no intent on the part of the Texas legislature and the TLC to design lotteries that can be won by the brute force and power of deep-pocket money sunk in, to buy up all the combinations. That is not the intention of the state law-makers who legislated the lottery into existence and reserve the power to take it out of existence, if it is deemed to no
May 28, 2025, 12:40 pm - Participant - Lottery News

Texas Lottery Executive Director resignsNews Story
Leadership change amid challenging period for Lottery By Kate Northrop The Texas Lottery published a press release last night announcing the resignation of Executive Director Ryan Mindell and the appointment of an interim director while awaiting the selection process for a new Executive Director. The Texas Lottery Commission issued a statement yesterday about a leadership change at the Texas Lottery, with Ryan Mindell stepping down from his role as Executive Director. Ryan Mindel
Apr 22, 2025, 10:04 am - Todd - Lottery News

Texas LotteryReply
The state tried to rectify the problem several years age as Rcbuckeye mentioned. They instituted two policies 1. Tickets were to be purchased at a physical terminal within state boundaries 2. That to qualify to be a licensed retailer a person, business or entity must sell other products and not sell lottery as a sole business. That meant things like liquor, tobacco, groceries, gas, etc. Once this took effect, former director Gary Grief took a trip to California to woo a certain
Feb 23, 2025, 1:17 pm - garyo1954 - Lottery Discussion Forum

Winner who claimed half of $395 million Mega Millions jackpot sues California Lottery for other halfReply
Are lottery retailers allowed to buy lottery tickets? If you want to know go to the source. I was having a discussion with someone about the lottery and this person said that Lottery retailers are not allowed to play the lottery. Is that true? I know Lottery employees are not allowed to play, but are retailers allowed to play? Are they allowed to play in some states and not others? Are there any limitations as to what games they are allowed to play as far as daily games, jackpot games, scra
Dec 13, 2024, 5:07 pm - grwurston - Lottery News

The city that had the winning ticket PowerballReply
It is possible to produce every number from 1 to 1000 (or 10000 or whatever) with numerology tricks. Essentially, all you have to do is cherry pick words and phrases and then cherry pick the way in which you assign numbers to letters (there are at least a dozen systems). You can massage these results even further by selectively grouping certain digits and cherry picking which operations to perform on the digits. Take a single word like Altadena and you can squeeze out dozens of numbers. Doesn't
Nov 9, 2022, 3:14 pm - cottoneyedjoe - Jackpot Games Forum