Thursday, March 19, 2009

New Hampshire Lottery celebrates 45th anniversary

March 18, 2009, 9:16 pm
Trailblazing N.H. had first-in-nation lottery
"A tragic mistake." "A scandalous experiment in state financing." "The shame of New Hampshire." Opponents of expanded gambling argue that it would hurt the state's image and cause more problems than it would solve. But the quotes above aren't from the current legislative debate; they're from newspaper editorials written in 1964, when New Hampshire launched the nation's first legal state-run lottery.

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