Arkansas News Bureau: Travel by ex-lottery leaders questioned
Reporter John Lyon with the Arkansas News Bureau has written a great recap of yesterday’s lottery legislative oversight committee meeting. Click here to check it out.
Former Lottery Director Spent 27% of Working Days Out of State
The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reports on auditor findings that reveal former lottery chiefs—Director Ernie Passailaigue and Vice President for Gaming David Barden—spent a considerable amount of their working days out of the state.
Lottery Scholarship Retention Rates Nothing New
Last Friday the Department of Higher Education released a study showing 40% of college freshmen who received lottery scholarships last year did not return to school this past August. Among the reasons cited for this failure were students’ inability to meet minimum credit hour and GPA requirements to keep their scholarships.
This is nothing new. The Tennessee Lottery faced this very same situation in the spring of 2008, while lottery proponents were pushing to legalize a lottery in Arkansas. Here’s the problem: (more…)