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1. Legalized gambling in N.J. is a slippery slope
(Opinion/Commentary)

... example, the forecast was less than $13 million. Even California could count on no more than about $100 million. These sums are “chump change” compared to the $18 billion the states reap from lotteries. ...

2. Mega Millions winning numbers worth $152 million
(Money/Economy)

... winnings total." Any amount a player wins from out-of-state lotteries will be taxable in New Jersey.  ...

3. Powerball winning numbers worth $107 million
(Money/Economy)

... POWERBALL WINNING NUMBERS Groups of players have had success playing in lotteries. A group of 20 Costco workers just won $201.9 million in a Powerball drawing back in June. It’s always wise to cover ...

4. Belmont Stakes Odds: Final leg of Triple Crown will depend on slot machines
(Sports/Professional)

... lotteries at local stores and in New York, keno in restaurants. The horse racing business is now surviving in many areas, except New Jersey, through proceeds from on site slot machines and table games ...

5. Powerball winning numbers worth $200 million
(Money/Economy)

... prize anonymously. New Jersey has had great success with its lottery games, and New Jersey Newsroom reported that legislation is pending that would make New Jersey the first state to offer lotteries ...

6. Powerball winning numbers worth $218 million
(Money/Economy)

BY BOB HOLT NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM There seems to be a big, life-changing, bucket of money up for grabs on a regular basis in New Jersey’s lotteries these days. Right after the group from Albany won ...

7. Powerball winning numbers worth $187 million
(Money/Economy)

... cash value as something that is calculated based on the annuity amount, but the lotteries start with the cash value. The advertised annuity jackpot amount is calculated based on the cash available for ...

8. Mega Millions clears $300 million mark, making history
(Money/Economy)

... ever for any U.S. lottery. Lotterypost.com reports this is only the tenth time in the history of United States lotteries that a lottery jackpot has cleared the $300 million mark. The largest lottery ...

9. Mega Millions winning numbers worth $172 million
(Money/Economy)

... fortune: The Press of Atlantic City reported last year that a study by the Rockefeller Institute for Government, based in New York, found in the same period that some lotteries, such as those in Oregon ...

10. Are sports fans resilient or suckers?
(Sports/Professional)

... it is was an increase in sales tax, car rental tax, hotel tax, motel tax, water tax, lotteries (in Maryland), a sin tax, a restaurant tax, tax breaks, tax incentives or in the case in Louisiana paying ...

11. New Jerseyans rank among nation’s most upstanding citizens
(N.J./State)

... But it focuses on casinos, excluding lotteries, off-track betting and similar activities. As a result of this choice, New Jersey missed out on first place in the virtue rankings, coming in second because ...

12. Mega Millions winning numbers worth $242 million
(Money/Economy)

... lottery drawing back in May. Of course, everyone knows certain people who have a little better luck at winning. 7online.com tells of how one man, Richard Lustig has picked the winning numbers in lotteries ...

13. Mega Millions winning number gets $200M
(Money/Economy)

... under the annuity option. Officially raising a jackpot estimate before a drawing is rare, and only happens as a result of higher-than-expected sales. Lotteries draw upon historical sales volumes ...

14. Mega Millions winning number worth over $168 million
(Money/Economy)

... thrown around a lot with lotteries. Lotterypost.com reports a central Kentucky autoworker is lucky he held on to the $128 million Powerball ticket he bought on Christmas Eve last year during some last-minute ...

15. Movie review: ‘Waiting for Superman’
(Entertainment/Movies)

...  One thing Daisy has not heard about, until Guggenheim mentions it, is the lottery to get into a highly regarded charter school. The last reel takes us to some of those public lotteries, where numerous ...

16. Should Chris Christie be considered one of the most powerful people in sports?
(Sports/Professional)

... stadiums and arenas? What do they know about the difficulties in getting tax abatements, payment in lieu of taxes, tax increment financing in the United States, getting dollars from provincial hockey lotteries ...

17. Time to allow sports gambling in Atlantic City
(Sports/Professional)

... the National Football League, have agreements with casinos and state lotteries. The New York Giants partnered with Connecticut in 2009 on a state lottery promotion. When gambling suits sports owners, ...

18. Preakness and Belmont Stakes futures in doubt
(Sports/Professional)

... as politicians attitudes toward gambling changed. Politicians decided to tap into a new revenue source, gambling, through a variety of lotteries. In New York, you can play Keno in pizza parlors and go ...

19. Bringing Powerball to New Jersey was like adding a tax to the state’s poor
(Opinion/Commentary)

... that lotteries are one of the most regressive ways to raise revenues. They are disproportionately played by lower-income citizens and generally shunned by higher income groups. Lottery players with incomes ...

20. Racinos can keep New Jersey green in more ways than one
(Opinion/Commentary)

...  "Much as horse racing no longer has a gambling monopoly since the introduction of lotteries and the expansion of gaming to reservations, riverboats and racinos, the folks in Atlantic City need to realize ...