Lottery
My colleague Jennifer Fernandez and I had two different stories in the paper today, each about different ends of the same lottery discussion.
- Click here for mine, which looks at the governor’s plan to lower percent of gross lottery profits set aside for education. By putting more toward prizes, he hopes to boost the overall take.
- Click here for Jennifer’s, which looks at the effects of the lagging proceeds, which prompted Easley to offer his plan.
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Ah, the lottery. Did the state really think that all those people who voted, 'No' would suddenly start buying tickets just because they could?
Posted on February 23, 2007 11:11 PM
I do think there was a certain "create it and they will come mentality." But some the folks who play lotteries - I mean the die hard players - are a savvy crowd. They know the odds and which games offer the better chances of winning. And basically, N.C. scratch-off games had worse (relatively) odds than the games from any other nearby state. (They're all pretty poor in my estimation, but I've never been a real gambler.) At any rate, that's probably part of the problem.
Posted on February 24, 2007 7:58 PM