Our View: Lottery Reform Overdue; Senate Bill Would Do It
The Santa Fe New Mexican › January 30, 2007
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Twelve years after creating the New Mexico Lottery, the state Legislature is considering an overdue tune-up.
Senate Majority Leader Michael S nchez this week introduced a bill demanding that 30 percent of its revenues go into college scholarships. Only 24 percent has been reaching our state's students under the current arrangement. But the lottery-operating contract with a national company known as GTech runs out next year -- and now's the time to have a law in place so the share of the money can be shifted in favor of education.See the full content of this document
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Our View: Lottery Reform Overdue; Senate Bill Would Do It
The lottery reworking was thought up by Think New Mexico, a bipartisan public-policy research organization with an impressive rec...
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