Gerard Matthews of the Arkansas Times has written a great article about the coming lottery vending machines. He interviewed lottery director Ernie Passailaigue, who revealed that these machines will be in “high-traffic, non-traditional locations, like big retail chains, grocery stores and airports.” I provided my concerns to Mathews about the prospect of under-age lottery players.
As I wrote yesterday, today at 2 p.m, the members of the House and Senate State Agencies Committees met to talk about repealing the enabling legislation that set up Arkansas’ state-run lottery. Despite no legislative action being taken (there weren’t enough lawmakers present), I thought the meeting went very well.
At 2 p.m. on Wednesday the members of the House and Senate State Agencies Committees will meet to talk about repealing the enabling legislation that set up state-run lottery. What goes on in Room 151 of the State Capitol in Little Rock isn’t likely to do anything to restrain Arkansas’ “out of control” State Lottery Commission—because they can’t. Why? Because last spring the Arkansas Legislature gave away its control of the lottery when they unanimously approved legislation to implement state-run lotteries.