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It’s time to vote on a comprehensive gaming package

Conservative estimates suggested a comprehensive gaming package could generate roughly $750 million per year, returning lost revenue to Alabama.
January 27, 2026

Stellar group studying gambling in the state

Another legislation session has passed, and Alabama still has no lottery. Actually, the Legislature does not in itself have the authority to pass a state lottery, they can only authorize a ballot initiative to let you vote on a lottery.  It takes a constitutional amendment. The lottery would pass in a vote in Alabama simply … Continued
June 3, 2020

Albritton is back with yet another bad gambling plan

Greg Albritton is trying to scam you again.  After trying and failing last year to extend the Poarch Band of Creek Indians’ gaming monopoly in the state, Albritton is back again this year, with a bill that is, amazingly, worse.  Worse for the state. Worse for gaming. Worse for everyone.  Billed as the “billion-dollar plan” … Continued
March 10, 2020

Gov. Ivey names members of study group on gaming, lottery

Gov. Kay Ivey on Friday announced the members of a panel she’s ordered to study how much revenue the state could bring in from an expansion of gaming and a state lottery.   Ivey said in her State of the State address that before she’ll consider the Poarch Band of Creek Indian’s proposal to expand gaming … Continued
February 14, 2020

Ivey seizes gaming issue

Toward the end of her 2020 State of the State address, Gov. Kay Ivey snatched the issue of a state lottery and gaming from the hands of the Legislature. “I will be signing an Executive Order to establish a small working group of some of Alabama’s most distinguished citizens, to begin working, to gather all … Continued
February 6, 2020

Poarch Creek’s offer is a pipe dream opening the door to a nightmare

Over the last ten years, the political influence of the Poarch Band of Creek Indians has grown so powerful that they can kill any legislation that poses a threat to their business interests. Each year PCI and its Republican allies have doomed legislation that would have created a state lottery or allow others to offer … Continued
January 13, 2020