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By: Things You Should Be Reading: Lottery Madness | The Arkansas Project

Things You Should Be Reading: Lottery Madness | The Arkansas Project — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 18:49:02 +0000

[...] Coupla other quick hits: Blogger Mark Moore at Arkansas Watch points up some possible problems with a legislative report on average lottery salaries, while Brett Kincaid at BlogHawgs confesses to conflicted feelings about the whole enterprise. [...]

By: LittlePope

LittlePope — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 17:08:10 +0000

Maybe we should ban Busch beer in Arkansas since it is also taking money away from the people who need it most. If you make bad decisions with your money, you should have to pay the consequences of those decisions. It’s entertainment that generates money for the state.

By: Ginny Blankenship

Ginny Blankenship — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 16:25:31 +0000

Thanks, Brett. I also had mixed feelings before the ballot initiative was ever proposed, but the research has since tipped me over: http://ginnyblankenship.wordpress.com/2009/07/25/the-lottery-school-counselors-and-nana

By: Brett Kincaid

Brett Kincaid — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 03:01:08 +0000

I actually have a very simple answer to that, Jeff.

It makes too much sense. Welcome to Arkansas government, folks!

By: Brett Kincaid

Brett Kincaid — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 02:59:56 +0000

I don’t think anyone is complaining about the lottery (or the results of the election). I do think, though, such an enormous government-run program should suffer tremendous scrutiny.

By: Jeff Hagers

Jeff Hagers — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 22:46:56 +0000

OK I almost never read letters to the editor. (One of my many reasons is that to me it’s a lot like why 20 – 40 year olds play adult basketball, softball, etc. They couldn’t make it to the next level but they still think they have game. Too many writers to the editor think they have game.)

BUT, the other day I saw one in the Dem Gazette that caught my eye on the way to the cartoons. The writer was lamenting that we are going Powerball instead of Mega Millions and I gotta agree with his logic. All but one of the lottery states we border already have Powerball. And the one that does not (Texas) is a small border. Why not have a mulit-state lottery that our neighbors don’t have so we can get their $$ too?

Sue Madison would love this. She still thinks Missouri owes us for the years of Macadoodles losses.

By: Roger Black

Roger Black — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 22:28:18 +0000

The election was last year. The people overwhelmingly want the lottery. Quit complaining.