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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.
It's D-Day for Dreamers.
After more than a year of contradictory statements and mixed signals, President Trump will unveil Tuesday his plan for 800,000 law-abiding, longtime residents of the United States — who could now be in danger of deportation.
On the campaign trail, Trump slammed the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program as illegal “amnesty” and vowed to eliminate it the day he took office.
But since his election, Trump has wavered. In April, he said Dreamers could “rest easy.”
His contradictions go back at least to 2011, when he asked in a Fox News interview regarding immigration policy, “How do you tell a family that’s been here for 25 years to get out?”
Now, White House officials say he will end the program but delay enforcement of the revocation for six months, allowing Congress time to act.
Gov. Cuomo and state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman weren’t waiting for Trump — who often abruptly changes his mind — to make an official announcement.
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