Tag: nc lottery
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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: Gambling IN Our Children’s Future…
Usually politicians will attempt to sell a policy by claiming “if not adopted we’re gambling with our children’s future.” The corrosive affects of NC’s lottery continue to spread, as demonstrated by this report in today’s N&O: In August and September, teens under age 18 were paired with state agents and made visits to 348 lottery […]
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NC Lottery: Ready to waste a buck?
Let the frenzy begin: Powerball tickets go on sale today. And if you plan to play, please consider throwing in another buck for the Powerplay option just to irritate Scientific Games, whose (now former) lobbyists brought such high ethical standards to our little State-sponsored con-game.
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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,