The South Dakota Constitution allows Deadwood to conduct gambling on the condition that the city use the proceeds for historic restoration and preservation. Black Hills native Eric Zimmer writes that Deadwood and the First Gold casino may be violating the…
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The South Dakota Lottery wants you to gamble more. After difficulty earlier this month rustling up a quorum, the Lottery Commission voted 6 to 1 this week to allow more promotions to entice South Dakotans into surrendering their money to…
Huge news! Nathan Fluit, who went public last fall with the fact that non-profit doctor Annette Bosworth had scammed him out of $1,000 for a raffle that she never held, has received justice. Fluit reports that he came home from…
Is promoting video lottery really the best idea Pierre can come up with for boosting state revenues? Back on April 30, 1991, the South Dakota Lottery Commission adopted a declaratory ruling that limited marketing promotions by video lottery establishments. On…
Hearing concerns about cheating by collusion at Deadwood's poker tables, the South Dakota Legislature this session passed House Bill 1084, which empowers the gaming commission to ban cheaters, felons, and perhaps whistleblowers from casinos. Unfortunately, Deadwood casinos don't seem terribly…
A few South Dakota lawmakers tried really hard this session to dress their anti-gay bigotry in religious drag and allow pious business owners to refuse service to homosexuals. Those mean-spirited bills failed. (For the record, see HB 1251, SB 66,…
No Sign of Second Land Raffle The Department of Criminal Investigation is questioning people connected with fake Senate candidate Annette Bosworth's raffle scam. Among the five people I know of visited by DCI agents in the past week is Bosworth's…
The raffle-scam noose tightens on fake U.S. Senate candidate Annette Bosworth. When Bosworth and husband Chad Haber cooked up their scheme to spend 85% of the proceeds from their first land raffle to buy another chunk of land for a…