Cuomo finally signals ‘surrender’ in
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The Scariest Catholic in America Andrew Cuomo
free programs at nassau otb on frank stronach day
Sunday, April 1, 2018
Track Code Track Name Entry Scratch 1st Post
ET 1st Post
Local Time
Zone Stakes Race(s) Stakes Grade T.V.
Indicator GG GOLDEN GATE FIELDS 48 24 3:45 PM 12:45 PM PDT GP GULFSTREAM PARK 72 0 1:15 PM 1:15 PM EDT SA SANTA ANITA PARK 72 24 3:30 PM 12:30 PM PDT SUN SUNLAND PARK
Sunday, April 1, 2018
| Track Code | Track Name | Entry | Scratch | 1st Post ET | 1st Post Local | Time Zone | Stakes Race(s) | Stakes Grade | T.V. Indicator |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GG | GOLDEN GATE FIELDS | 48 | 24 | 3:45 PM | 12:45 PM | PDT | |||
| GP | GULFSTREAM PARK | 72 | 0 | 1:15 PM | 1:15 PM | EDT | |||
| SA | SANTA ANITA PARK | 72 | 24 | 3:30 PM | 12:30 PM | PDT | |||
| SUN | SUNLAND PARK |
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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.
But that bill threatened to grow by $14 million — the penalty set by the Federal Highway Administration, which has complained for years that the billboards are dangerous distractions that violate its safety rules.
Cuomo & Co. have ignored the FHA’s concerns since 2011, when the state first started discussing the idea. Indeed, the gov even kept adding more signs in what amounted to a dare to the feds to do something about it.
Dare accepted: The FHA has now given New York until Sept. 30 to choose among three options: bring the signs into compliance, remove them altogether or face a $14 million cut in federal road funding.
Late Friday, Cuomo’s Transportation Department implicitly folded, announcing that it would replace all the signs over the summer, “repurposing” existing materials to comply with the federal rules.
The gov’s minions don’t have much choice but to do as he orders. But it seems Cuomo found that “my way or the highway” doesn’t work with the Highway Administration.
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