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CT Lottery moving operations after employee tests positive for COVID-19News Story
A Connecticut Lottery Corp. employee who had been self-isolating at home has tested positive for COVID-19, prompting lottery officials to announce they are temporarily moving operations from the lottery's Rocky Hill headquarters to a backup facility they declined to identify. The move is effective Thursday. Out of an abundance of caution, the Rocky Hill location will be closed for deep cleaning following today's notice of an employee testing positive for COVID-19, the lottery announced We
Apr 2, 2020, 1:53 pm - Lottery News

California lottery closes office after Sacramento employee tests positive for coronavirusNews Story
The California Lottery has closed its Sacramento office to employees after one of them tested positive for the coronavirus, according to a staff email the lottery sent on Friday night. The email said an employee of the district was tested earlier this month and received a positive test result for COVID-19 on Friday. The employee has not been to the Sacramento district office since the first week of March, according to the email. The Lottery closed all nine of its district offices to the
Mar 29, 2020, 7:45 pm - Lottery News

CT Lottery workers 'getting the job done' despite agency upheavalNews Story
Editorial by Rob Raczka and Mark Negralle As state employees and union stewards at the beleaguered Connecticut Lottery Corporation, we will be the first to tell you it's extraordinarily difficult to work in an environment described by our colleagues in an internal survey as fear-based, toxic and North Korea-like. It angers us that controversy and scandal have tainted our agency and generated a seemingly endless stream of news stories exposing the questionable practices of some senior mana
Sep 1, 2019, 12:38 pm - Lottery News

N.C. Lottery picks new headquarters in RaleighNews Story
With six offers on the table, the North Carolina Education Lottery will be moving all of its headquarters staff and operations to a bigger office campus in north Raleigh by next summer. The lottery office in September had issued a request for proposals for a need to lease about 100,000 square feet of office and warehouse space, which is more than double the space that the N.C. Lottery currently occupies at its headquarters on Yonkers Road. Of the six offers received, the lowest bid came fr
Nov 4, 2015, 8:58 am - Lottery News

N.C. Lottery looking for new HQ as revenues growNews Story
Executives of the North Carolina Education Lottery have initiated a search for new office space that's more than double the size of the lottery's headquarters on Yonkers Road in Raleigh. N.C. Lottery spokesman Van Denton explains that since the lottery program was enacted by the General Assembly in 2006, lottery sales have more than doubled to more than $2 billion per year, requiring a need to increase the lottery's administrative staff. The N.C. Education Lottery currently has 160 people on
Sep 18, 2015, 6:56 pm - Lottery News

Moldy Sandy-damaged NJ Lottery tickets leads to workers' comp claimsNews Story
Two New Jersey Lottery employees allegedly sickened by moldy Superstorm Sandy-damaged scratch-off tickets are looking to be compensated for some unlucky circumstances. The employees, who filed worker's compensation claims, were exposed to approximately 400,000 stinky lottery tickets for more than six months in a warehouse at the state lottery headquarters in Lawrence and were asked to audit the tickets by their superiors. An account of the conditions from one warehouse employee was reporte
Jul 2, 2013, 10:48 am - Lottery News

NJ Lottery workers being sickened by moldy Sandy scratch-off tickets, employee claimsNews Story
Some New Jersey Lottery employees got a little more to scratch off than they bargained for. For six months, tens of thousands of moldy Superstorm Sandy scratch-off tickets have been sitting in a warehouse at the state lotto's headquarters in Lawrenceville sickening several workers, according an employee who wished to remain anonymous for fear of retribution. We're all suffering from headaches, the employee said. If you go into that room, you start experiencing respiratory problems. You fe
May 2, 2013, 5:03 pm - Lottery News

Indiana Lottery chief resigns after lavish office revealedNews Story
Hoosier Lottery Director Kathryn Densborn stepped down Friday after coming under fire for moving the lottery to a posh new headquarters in Indianapolis. Gov. Mitch Daniels said in a statement he accepted her resignation, which was effective Friday. Densborn came under fire last week following reports of lavish spending on the move from Pan Am Plaza to a 35,000-square-foot office on Meridian Street. (See Hoosier Lottery admits new office too lavish, Lottery Post, Oct. 6, 2011.) Lotter
Oct 14, 2011, 6:12 pm - Lottery News

Hoosier Lottery admits new office too lavishNews Story
Includes video report Less than a week after an Indiana TV station broke the story that the Hoosier Lottery overpaid for new offices, lottery officials are making some changes. In a news conference Wednesday lottery officials admitted mistakes were made. The Hoosier Lottery admits it did not follow state rules when it moved into a new multi-million dollar headquarters on Meridian Street. The WTHR segment called 13 Investigates first exposed the lottery's fancy new offices and that in
Oct 6, 2011, 6:56 am - Lottery News

West Virginia Lottery move delayedNews Story
It's going to be at least another year before the West Virginia Lottery moves out of leased space in Charleston to a 13-story building it purchased earlier this year on the other side of town. Lottery Director John Musgrave says a lot of renovation work is required at City Center West and the mandated changes have taken a long time to design and will take a long time to complete. Musgrave says restrooms in the building will have to be made handicap accessible, a fire suppression system mus
Dec 6, 2010, 12:39 pm - Lottery News