without the vatican army having to kill a single otb cashier, imitation christisn or infidel, who seeks to uphold ny const art 1 sec 3 and open the holy church of nassau otb, while others are elsewhere,...
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Sunday, April 21, 2019
| 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 | |||
| LS | LONE STAR PARK | 72 | 0 | 3:35 PM | 2:35 PM | CDT | |||
| SA | SANTA ANITA PARK | 72 | 24 | 3:30 PM | 12:30 PM | PDT | |||
| SUN | SUNLAND PARK | 168 | 0 | 2:30 PM | 12:30 PM | MDT | |||
| WO | WOODBINE | 72 | 48 |
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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.
LOVETT: Catholic Church
already
shaping up to be big loser in this year's NYS legislative session,
Timothy Cardinal Dolan speaks with reporters after leaving Bellevue Hospital on October 1, 2017 in New York. (Alec Tabak for New York Daily News)
ALBANY — The 2019 state legislative session is not even a month old and already the Catholic Church is shaping up as one of this year’s biggest losers.
Legislation the state Catholic Conference led by Timothy Cardinal Dolan has for years successfully sought to block — with the help of Republicans who controlled the state Senate — has begun sailing through now that the Democrats control both houses of the Legislature and the governor’s office.
“Election Day made very clear to us how things were going to go on certain issues, so we’re not shell-shocked,” said Catholic Conference spokesman Dennis Poust.
But, he added, “I think everyone is surprised, perhaps, at how quickly things seem to be moving.”
A bill first introduced in 2002 — and opposed by the Church — to add transgender New Yorkers to the state’s anti-discrimination laws pertaining to housing and employment overwhelmingly passed the Senate and Assembly on the first real working day of the session.
This week, the Senate and Assembly are scheduled to pass the Reproductive Health Act, which will strengthen and expand abortion rights by moving the procedure from the state criminal statute to the health laws and allow for more abortion in the third trimester of pregnancy based on fetus viability or if the health and life of a mother is at risk.
It would also allow non-doctor licensed health care professionals to perform abortions.
Dolan and the state’s other Catholic bishops put out a scathing statement on the issue last week. “Our Governor and legislative leaders hail this new abortion law as progress. This is not progress,” the statement said. “Progress will be achieved when our laws and our culture once again value and respect each unrepeatable gift of human life, from the first moment of creation to natural death.”
And in coming weeks, the Legislature is expected to pass the Child Victims Act that would make it easier for child sex abuse survivors to seek justice as adults — a bill the Church, other religious groups and the Boy Scouts of America successfully beat back for 15 years.
Dolan was incensed last week after Cuomo singled out the Catholic Church for its opposition during his State of the State address.
“For years, I’ve disagreed with those who have observed that certain politicians are using the proposed Child Victims Act…as a cudgel to attack the Catholic Church,” Dolan wrote in an essay for the Daily News. “The governor has proven me wrong.”
Seeing the writing on the wall, the Catholic Conference for the first time says it would drop its long-time opposition to the bill if it’s clear a one-year window to revive old cases will impact both public and private institutions, something sponsors say the bill does.
A Catholic and former altar boy, Cuomo noted during an appearance last Monday on upstate public radio’s “The Roundtable” that his father, former three-term Gov. Mario Cuomo, was threatened with ex-communication from the Church over his views supporting abortion laws.
“An excommunication was very bad, by the way you can’t get into heaven if you were excommunicated,” Cuomo said.
Like with his father, Cuomo said there are priests who say he will burn in hell.
“The only problem with that threat…once you know you’re going to burn in hell, you might as well do the right thing,” he said.
A top priority for the Church now will be trying to block legislation to allow physician-assisted suicide in New York.
Poust also said he is also hopeful the Church and Democrats can work together on issues of agreement like creating a state DREAM Act, which should pass on Wednesday, and a farm workers rights bill.
“We have a lot of common ground with Democrats as well,” he said.
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Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul says she takes Cuomo at his word that he’s not running for President — but is prepared if he changes his mind.
“I think we all know I’m pretty busy as I am,” Hochul said. “I can always handle more, but listening to him, I don't think that’s going to be necessary.”
“I love the opportunity I have now, I never foresaw that, so...my motto is, ‘don’t seek, but be prepared.’ And I am. But I don’t foresee that because the governor has been very clear in his statements.”
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Elizabeth Crothers, who in 2001 accused then-Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver of ignoring her complaint that his counsel raped her, is livid one of Silver’s closest aides and defenders is now lobbying in Albany.
With Silver facing prison time after his federal corruption conviction, his former chief of staff, Judy Rapfogel, has started her own firm and is being paid $240,000 by a Virginia-based non-profit to lobby in support of the Child Victims Act, The Forward reported last week.
“I don’t think she should be invited to the party anymore,” Crothers said. “That bridge should be burned…She should be ostracized. Legislators shouldn’t meet with her.”
Rapfogel could not be reached for comment.
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