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'Ernie Passailaigue'

Lottery Commission today: Fireworks? UPDATE

The Arkansas Lottery Commission meets this morning amid continuing reports about dissatisfaction with leadership. Gerard Matthews will be at the scene.
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Ernie P. earns his pay

Arkansas Lottery Director Ernie Passailaigue had plenty of questions to answer today at the legislature's lottery oversight committee.
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Beebe has 'confidence issues' with lottery director

Gov. Mike Beebe doesn't control Lottery Commission appointments (only three of nine), but that's three-fifths of the way to assembling the votes to fire the lottery director and he presumably has some stick with the legislative leaders who make the other appointments.

Back to work

After two weeks of vacation, I prepared to go back to work with a speed reading of accumulated newspapers.
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Lottery commission hires tax help

Gerard Matthews will be back with more details later, but he reports that the Lottery Commission has voted to hire a tax attorney to try to straighten out its federal tax troubles — that big penalty for failing for the second year in a row to remit taxes owed on time.

IRS issues lottery $99,673.29 penalty

A $99,637 fine was issued to the Arkansas Lottery due to late payments of taxes withheld from lottery winners
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Brummett rises in defense of Ernie P.

John Brummett reviews the latest hiccups at the Arkansas Lottery Commission and seems to conclude, on balance, that director Ernie Passailaigue is doing a pretty good job, though better on the startup than ongoing management and likely to depart before too long.

Lottery falls shorter still of forecast

Arkansas lottery revenue is almost $4 million lower than a reduced projection made only two weeks ago.
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Lottery falls short of scholarship goal

Lottery director Ernie Passailaigue told commissioners that the $98 million the lottery will transfer to the academic scholarship fund will be short of his original goal.

A legend in his own mind

Speaking of the Arkansas Lottery: A friend driving back from South Carolina reports a double-take at crossing a bridge leaving Charleston and seeing it named the Ernie Passailaigue Connector Bridge.
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Raymond Frazier to lottery commission

Raymond Frazier was appointed to the Arkansas lottery commission.

New lottery commissioners ready to work

The Arkansas Lottery Commisson met today. New commissioners Bruce Engstrom and Steve Faris showed they were ready to get to work.
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