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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.
pe Francis sends cardinals to Ukraine amid "madness" Russian war
POPE Francis has rejected Russia’s use of the term “special military operation”, instead calling it a “war which sows death, destruction and misery”.
He urged an immediate end to the fighting during his weekly address to crowds gathered in the Vatican, adding “in Ukraine, rivers of blood and tears are flowing”.
The Pope said: “In that martyred country the need for humanitarian assistance is growing by the hour. War is madness, please stop."
Many more people than usual gathered in front of St. Peter's Basilica for the pope's Sunday appearance, some holding multi-coloured peace flags as well as the blue and yellow flag of Ukraine.
Pope Francis said he has dispatched two cardinals to Ukraine, a highly unusual move.
The pontiff said on Sunday “the Holy See is willing to do everything to put itself in service for peace.”
The papal almsgiver, Cardinal Konrad Krajewski, has been dispatched with aid, along with Cardinal Michael Czerny, who is head of the papal office dealing with migration, charity, justice and peace.
Andriy Yurash, Ukraine's ambassador to the Vatican, told Reuters he was "very, very happy" that Pope Francis had called the conflict a war.
He said: "Even if the pope did not say the word 'Russia', everyone in the world knows who the aggressor that invaded us is and who started this unprovoked war.”
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