Wasting no time, Governor Ted Strickland this week appointed Cleveland-based attorney Kathleen Burke as the next director of the Ohio Lottery Commission. Burke, who has been an attorney with Jones Day since 1973, will assume her new role on August 24, replacing Michael Dolan, who resigned the position last week.
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Aug2009
The Ohio Lottery Commission released the proposed rule package for implementation of the video lottery terminals in Ohio's seven race tracks this week. The emergency rules were developed in accordance with the governor's directive, authorizing language from the state budget, current lottery practices and review of other states' practices. Commission ... Read More
August 17, 2009ogadmin
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Aug2009
Two recent initiatives, the proposal appearing on the November ballot to authorize four casinos in Ohio’s largest cities and the video slot machines ordered by Governor Strickland to be installed in Ohio’s seven racetracks, could make Ohio the third largest state for gambling revenue. Some analysts project that as much ... Read More
August 3, 2009ogadmin
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Aug2009
MTR Gaming Group, owner of the Scioto Downs racetrack near Columbus, filed suit in the Supreme Court of Ohio, questioning the validity of signatures appearing on the petition to get the proposal to build four Ohio casinos on the November ballot. After many signatures were disqualified by Secretary of State ... Read More
August 3, 2009ogadmin
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Advocacy group Let Ohio Vote’s suit challenging the validity of the executive order to place up to 1,750 video slot machines in each of Ohio’s seven racetracks is still pending before the Ohio Supreme Court. The Ohio Roundtable, another advocacy group supported by various religious organizations, is expected to file ... Read More
August 3, 2009ogadmin
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Aug2009
In a unanimous decision on Friday, the Ohio Supreme Court ruled against MTR Gaming Group in its suit questioning the validity of petition signatures to get a constitutional amendment authorizing the building of four casinos in Ohio on the November ballot. The Court stated that MTR failed to prove that ... Read More
August 3, 2009ogadmin
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Jul2009
The Let Ohio Vote Committee took its first attempts this week to block the use of Video Lottery Terminals (VLTs) at Ohio's seven racetracks by attempting to file a referendum petition with the Ohio Secretary of State's Office and the Ohio Attorney General's Office, both declined to take the documents. ... Read More
July 24, 2009ogadmin
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Jul2009
Petitions to bring casinos to Ohio's four largest cities could face legal challenges by opponents of the casino effort. Opponents have threatened to file suit alleging that the petition process was tainted by a number of irregularities, such as petition circulators lying to obtain signatures, felons gathering signatures, and signatures ... Read More
July 22, 2009ogadmin
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Jul2009
After a 10-day standoff, Governor Ted Strickland and legislative leaders reached a compromise on July 10, permitting up to 2,500 video lottery terminals, or VLTs, at each of Ohio's seven horse-racing tracks without a ballot vote. Legislators scrambled to finish the two-year $51 billion deal before the July 14 deadline ... Read More
July 22, 2009ogadmin
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Jul2009
All felony charges have been dropped against a 63-year-old man accused of operating an illegal euchre tournament at an Akron social club. Norman D. Metz, the card tournament organizer, was to stand trial in Summit County Common Pleas Court on two felony counts of operating a gambling house and two ... Read More
July 22, 2009ogadmin