Sen. Michael Lamoureux, president pro tem of the Senate, Tweets tgat he'll replace Steve Faris on the Arkansas Lottery Commission with Julie Baldridge.
Lottery Director Bishop Woosley released at today's meeting of the Lottery Commission board an e-mail from Scientific Games, which the lottery contracts with the Arkansas lottery to provide scratch-off tickets, in which the company offers the lottery at $2 million credit as an incentive for the state to keep contracting with Scientific Games and "not in the performance of any obligation or as an admission of any kind of liability."
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The Arkansas Lottery Commission tonight at 7:45 p.m. named William Bishop Woosley as the new Director of the Arkansas Scholarship Lottery.
The Arkansas Lottery Commission today released documents that show Ernestine Middleton was fired as vice president of administration because interim lottery director Julie Baldridge told her in a brief memo she had "lost confidence in her ability to perform to the level this agency will need going forward."
Mulling this morning the end of the South Carolina triumvirate at the Arkansas Lottery, I realized the departure of Ernie P., David Barden and Ernestine Middleton saves, on an annual basis, more than $750,000, or 150 one-year lottery scholarships.
Arkansas Lottery Director Ernie Passailaigue made his final appearance before the Arkansas Lottery Legislative Oversight Committee this morning. The lottery's internal auditor, Michael Hyde, hinted at more legislative audit troubles ahead.