does not apply eto the nassau otb faithful.horses are raced in msny ststes without ny and canada and beyond and we want to bet the and no one comes to our aud when the white boy andrew cuomo tells new yorkers thst the are nothing but expletive deletive morons
he will not make the white house in any any year
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Stop scratching on holidays
Published: June 1, 2012
Off Track Betting in New York State has been racing into a crisis called shrinking revenue. Some people have spitballed a solution: Don’t close on holidays.
New York State Racing Law bars racing on Christmas, Easter and Palm Sunday, and the state has ruled OTBs can’t handle action on those days, even though they could easily broadcast races from out of state.
“You should be able to bet whenever you want,” said Jackson Leeds, a Nassau OTB employee who makes an occasional bet. He added some irrefutable logic: “How is the business going to make money if you’re not open to take people’s bets?”
Elias Tsekerides, president of the Federation of Hellenic Societies of Greater New York, said OTB is open on Greek Orthodox Easter and Palm Sunday.
“I don’t want discrimination,” Tsekerides said. “They close for the Catholics, but open for the Greek Orthodox? It’s either open for all or not open.”
OTB officials have said they lose millions by closing on Palm Sunday alone, with tracks such as Gulfstream, Santa Anita, Turf Paradise and Hawthorne running.
One option: OTBs could just stay open and face the consequences. New York City OTB did just that back in 2003. The handle was about $1.5 million – and OTB was fined $5,000.
Easy money.
Utah school investigates video showing teen girls using racial slur
A Utah school district says the girls behind social media slur video are "very apologetic" and getting threats.
KUTV
SALT LAKE CITY -- A video that appears to show five teenagers shouting a racial slur and expletive while laughing is under investigation by Utah school officials, a school district said Tuesday, and the NAACP has called for harsh punishment.
The 10-second cellphone video was made by Weber High School students as they sat in a car, said Lane Findlay, a spokesman for the school district. He said three of them are cheerleaders. They all appear to be white.
The video shows the teens repeatedly yelling an expletive and slur as they laugh, CBS affiliate KUTV-TV reports.
They initially recorded themselves shouting a different, nonsensical phrase and uploaded it to an app that played it backward to produce the offensive words, Findlay said.
The video was made a year ago, and one of the girls recently shared it on social media as a private post, he said. It was seen by other students who reposted to other online platforms.
School officials are shocked and taking the matter seriously, Findlay said. School officials have talked with three of the five the girls, and they are "extremely apologetic" for what happened, he said.
The video wasn't made during the school day or on school grounds, but violations of the school's code of conduct could bring discipline, possibly related to involvement in extracurricular activities, he said. The students are juniors and seniors.
"Racism, whether intentional or not, has no place in our schools or society," Findlay said in a statement.
He added: "Certainly, there are no excuses for this type of behavior, but they are still children in a sense and hopefully this will be a learning experience for them and others."
Jeanetta Williams, president of NAACP's tri-state conference area of Idaho-Utah-Nevada, called the video appalling. The fact that they were laughing made it sting even more, Williams said.
"They knew what they were doing it. They did it, and they posted it," she said. "If they had any type of concerns about other people's feelings or about what other people would think they wouldn't have been laughing."
She wants the cheerleaders suspended from the squad and the other students given discipline involving one of their activities.
"A strong lesson needs to be sent to them," Williams said. "It seems like our work is never done."
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