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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.
The Donald Trump administration is planning to retaliate against Turkey in a different way every day until it relents and releases Pastor Andrew Brunson, Dion Nissenbaum wrote for the Wall Street Journal.
“U.S. officials have repeatedly made it clear to their Turkish counterparts that the way to contain the damage—to Turkey’s economy and to U.S.-Turkish relations—is to free Mr. Brunson without delay,” Nissenbaum said.
“Turkey has little to gain from continuing to hold Pastor Brunson—and much to lose,” he quoted a spokesman for the White House National Security Council as saying.
Brunson has been in pre-trial detention since October 2016 on charges of supporting two terrorist groups in Turkey. The charges, based on anecdotal evidence from anonymous sources, have been described as a sham by U.S. officials.
After a deal between Trump and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan fell through over Brunson’s release at the end of July, the United States applied sanctions to two Turkish ministers, leading to a big drop in the price of the lira.
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