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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.
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Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden during the second night of the 2020 Democratic National Convention.Democratic National Convention via AP
A stunned-looking Joe Biden was officially dubbed the Democratic presidential nominee in an anticlimactic end to the party’s primary race roll call on Tuesday evening.
Standing in what appeared to be a school library with his wife and grandchildren, the 77-year-old appeared confused after an all virtual roll call amid the coronavirus pandemic and stood agape as he was officially crowned the Democratic nominee.
Instead of the famed balloon drop, fanfare and large crowds that defined conventions in years past, a sad group of streamers fell from the ceiling as Biden’s masked relatives let off party poppers.
“Well, thank you very, very much. From the bottom of my heart, thank you all,” Biden said awkwardly.
“It means the world to me and my family and I’ll see you on Thursday,” he continued, accepting an official invitation to deliver a keynote speech at the DNC as the nominee before planting a kis
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