Tag: corruption
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Cognitive Dissonance? NC Legislature Bans Internet Sweepstakes
WUNC’s Laura Leslie (a reporting treasure) has a great post (Mon.: Stop me if you’ve heard this one before) on tonight’s 47 to 1 NC Senate vote “to ban video gambling – again – in North Carolina”. Republican Tom Apodaca didn’t mince words in urging his fellow senators to ban video gambling. “This is something […]
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NC Lottery: Compulsion. Confusion. Corruption. Compunction?
The four horseman of the North Carolina Lottery continue to ride roughshod over the body politic: Compulsion Saw my first “problem gambling” commercial this evening on Channel 50 (Fox50). The station’s owner, Jim Goodmon, fought the lottery. That didn’t stop another of his Capital Broadcasting properties, WRAL, from bidding on and winning the $340,000 a […]
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The Foetid Stench of North Carolina’s Lottery
The title of my post will be no surprise to those of you have read any of my many comments on OrangePolitics about the NC lottery. The lottery was birthed by trickery,