Media outlets across the state reported yesterday that scratch-off tickets for the Arkansas Lottery had arrived. According to the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, about 26 million tickets were delivered to a warehouse in west Little Rock, where a small ceremony with lottery officials and reporters took place marking the occasion.
Spin ensued.
Dan Gilgoff, writer of the “God & Country” column in U.S. News & World Report, recently sat down with Frank Page—the most conservative member of President Obama’s Advisory Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships.
Mike Wickline writes this morning in the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette that legislators have slowed the decision to award Athens, Greece-based Intralot–the only bidder–a seven-year major gambling contract.