"Last year, Texas Gov. Rick Perry proposed selling the Texas Lottery to a private company. Perry believes, with good reason, that privatization of the Texas Lottery, which brings in about $1 billion a year, would make the operation more efficient....

The Santa Ysabel Band of Diegueño Indians has hired a new manager for the Santa Ysabel Casino and Resort. Don Trimble has managed other tribal gaming facilities. He says he was hired to get the casino back on track....

"Imagine this scenario: Two items appear on a statewide referendum ballot, one to allow a big casino operation sponsored by Indian tribes to be established in, say, southern Maine, and the second to allow slot machines into one of the...

"Florida depends more and more on gambling to pay for education. Why not go all in? Rather than wait passively for gamblers to ante up, schools actively should promote gambling. Florida's public schools should make gambling part of the core...

"It's over for this year. The House voted down the governor's casino proposal by a margin of 106 to 48 last week. The fabulously wealthy national casino operators had the best lobbyists and public relations people that money could buy....