Gov. proposes selling Texas lottery
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Gov. Rick Perry on Tuesday proposed selling the state lottery for at least $14 billion to create an endowment for Texans without health insurance and a trust fund for cancer research.
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More chance of winning the Lottery than collecting
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Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban wants to start an investment fund that makes money by gambling - maybe even betting on sports. The idea would be to &quot;prove that traditional
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By Dan Voorhis, The Wichita Eagle, Kan.  Jun. 7--Casinos are often portrayed as a boost to business because they bring in tourists, but some local business people are lining up against the one proposed for Sedgwick County.
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Gov. Jim Doyle floats the idea of extracting $270 million from oil companies while prohibiting them from passing the pinch along at the pump. By the Associated Press.
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Proposals for changing the gambling industry in Britain are published by the government.
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With Indian gambling poised to expand, state seeks its share of the winnings.
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Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is set to sign deals today or Thursday that will authorize at least five new Indian casinos in California and firmly establish his approach to future expansion of tribal gambling.
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By John Moritz, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas  Feb. 2--AUSTIN -- Gov.
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If Gov. Rick Perry approves a bill sent to him Monday, Texas public high school athletes would face mandatory random steroid testing.
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David Bischoff thinks he got a raw deal last year when state gambling regulators raided his bowling alley, shut down his weekly Texas Hold 'em poker tournament and confiscated his cards and chips.
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By Art Chapman, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas  Dec. 16--There is a movement in Austin to transfer a number of state historic sites from the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department to the control of the Texas Historical Commission.
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By Scott Mayerowitz; Journal State House Bureau  A new governor and a looming budget deficit could change attitudes toward gambling in the Bay State, which would have a big impact on revenue in Rhode Island.
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The $14 million Breeders&#39; Cup at Lone Star Park today shapes up like a &quot;Texas shootout,&quot; according to the Daily Racing Form.
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Five years ago, Don J. Wims received a call telling him he had won $425,000 in a Spanish lottery. All he had to do, the voice on the other end of the line said, was pay $1,800 in taxes and handling fees and the money would be his.
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This township of 70,000 people has come up with a novel way to parcel out its 300 doses of flu vaccine: a lottery.
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About seven in 10 Maryland residents favor legalizing slot-machine gambling, but just as many oppose a sales tax increase that Gov. Martin O'Malley is pushing to close a looming $1.7 billion budget shortfall, a Washington Post poll has found.