Regulation

New York Attorney General stops fantasy sites from taking money.

Regulation

Major sports leagues including MLB partnering with gambling firms. Free Pete Rose.

Regulation

Copyright prevents tractor from being fixed.

Texas declares daily fantasy illegal gambling.

Regulation

New York AG sues fantasy companies for restitution of losses.

Regulation

New York Supreme Court Justice temporarily kicks Fanduel and DraftKings out of New York. Lower appeals court stays the decision.

In another reminder corporations hate freedom, The minister of Google wants to censor internet.

A year ago, maybe less, Elon Musk was fearmongering AI would destroy us. Now he's investing in an AI firm.

Dow and Dupont plan to merge then split into three companies, but only if regulators allow.

Police State

Police steal more stuff from Americans than criminals. More.

Florida police bust up senior citizen card game.

Cops are equal opportunity oppressors.

"A January 2014 Huffington Post headline read: “Nearly Half Of Black Males, 40 Percent Of White Males Are Arrested By Age 23: Study.”"

It doesn't fit the narrative.

Regulation

New York state orders fantasy sports sites to stop taking bets.

Regulation

Florida extorting Seminoles over casino revenue.

Misc

Best pictures of Pluto and Charon yet.

Potential failed prediction about merging black holes.

Hackers hack gambling sites and look at players' hands before joining game.

Local

Boil advisory in Trotwood.

Dayton racino provides far fewer jobs than advertised. So? Businesses aren't about creating jobs. They're about creating wealth.

Warren County releasing female drug offenders.

"Warren County judges say they are frequently having to let female drug offenders back out on the streets without punishment or treatment because there’s no room for them at the county jail."

Sexist.

The war on drugs has produced another, dangerous synthetic.

After saying they would stop red light cameras, Dayton's rulers are still running them and facing funding cuts because of it.

Regulation

Ohio casinos and racinos flag deadbeat parents and confiscate their winnings to pay back child support.

Undercover cops arrest Uber drivers in Hong Kong.

Local

Springfield is projected to collect record taxes in 2016 but still run a deficit.

"The city of Springfield is projected to collect a record $32.6 million in income taxes in 2016, but may be still facing a $2.1 million budget deficit. "

Only government.

I'm skeptical of this story about police arresting a man for drug possession during Mayor Whaley's porch tour.

Poor Mayor Whaley gets less money stolen from racinos to hand out to her cronies.

Dayton changes policy so red-light and speeding cameras will only issue tickets when an officer is present. The article cites lost revenue as the reason for the change, but I thought the cameras weren't about revenue.

Dayton's Persistent Surveillance Systems makes international news. Everybody under surveillance all the time is an abomination.

More on proposed plan to eliminate Dayton by merging it with Montgomery County. It would have fewer, but more unaccountable politicians.

"The committee is registered as a 501 (c)4 organization, a status often used by political action committees that conduct lobbying and campaigning. Leonard said the group would likely campaign to put the issue on the ballot in 2016.
A charter measure would go to every voter in Montgomery County, including Dayton’s suburbs, which concerns Owens."

Foley is lobbying and using taxpayer-paid time to expand his own power while disenfranchising Dayton voters. This plan is backwards from the ideals of the Founding Fathers. Instead of abolishing Dayton government, we should abolish the higher, less accountable government of Montgomery County.

"“The standard across the board is more efficient economic development. Most chambers of commerce would tell you that when a business is thinking about coming to your community, if they have to deal with multiple governments in the community in order to locate a business it slows down the economic development process,” Leonard said. “There are different tax structures you have to deal with, different elected officials you have to deal with. It really slows down the economic development process. Most businesses when they come to a state would like to talk to one entity and one entity alone and make it a one-stop-shopping situation for the business.”"

This is true, but you don't see it stopping the suburbs from growing.

"A committee list obtained by the Dayton Daily News contains several area elected officials, though none on the list are current Dayton office holders."

More disenfranchisement of Dayton voters.

"Dayton Mayor Nan Whaley, a Democrat, said Tuesday she stays in the loop with Foley on city-county issues but was unaware of the Dayton Together launch."

Keep it secret.

This is the first crash I've seen reported in Dayton's I-75 construction zone in many months. I don't know if the DNN is purposely not reporting them because there were so many or if drivers just got used to construction and drove safer.

I'm happy construction will remove the lower dam, but what about the equally deadly higher dam?

"The colorful mural — a series of images of life along an active riverfront — will be painted on a concrete floodwall along the riverfront across the Great Miami from RiverScape. The artist is Amy Deal of Kettering."

Nobody in Dayton could paint the mural?

Local

Gambling crackdown targets Springfield and Clark County bars. Gambling is only legal in crony businesses.

FBI still investigating police shooting of John Crawford III at Beavercreek Walmart. This isn't that hard. They're working on a cover-up.

Sports

Whether or not teams can beat the point spread produces large changes in TV ratings.

Local

Dayton police happy camera violations are up 20 percent since the law effectively banning the cameras passed, but Dayton didn't obey that law.

March record month for Dayton racino. It's only been since last summer.

Sports

Oregon versus Ohio State on pace for most bets ever.

Local

Crawford family sues Beavercreek policemen who killed him.

"The family contends that Walmart is just as responsible for their son’s death as the police because the store was negligent. They allowed the bb gun to remain on the shelf unsecured and out of the package as it sat on the shelf for several days, the attorneys said. Also, a store clerk saw Crawford walking around the store with the bb gun and contacted a manager about it, the attorneys noted.
Had the Walmart staff taken steps to package the gun, perhaps Crawford would still be alive, the attorney said.
“Customers are not supposed to be shot on sight when they are shopping at Walmart,” an attorney said.
The family is also holding Walmart responsible because the staff knew that another shopper saw him walking around the store with the gun and alerted police, “and they had the duty to make sure that Crawford and the other customers are safe,” the attorney said."

That's how they plan to get around government's liability limit.

"Ronald Ritchie, the shopper who called 911, made a mistake by assuming the gun Crawford was carrying was real. However, the police officers should have assessed the situation when they arrived at the scene, the family and their attorneys said."

Exactly.

"“You don’t get a pass because you have a side arm and a shield,” said Crawford’s father, John Crawford Jr."

Yes, they did, unfortunately.

How bad is security at Dayton Racino that it allowed an elderly couple to be kidnapped at gunpoint?

Politics

That Gruber guy who blew the whistle on the lies behind Obamacare turns out to be an MIT professor, and his name has been turned into a verb describing how government lies to us.

The internet gambling ban is a gift to Israeli plutocrat, billionaire, and super-lobbyist Sheldon Adelson. This illustrates the nexus of all policy of politics. This ban would boost Adelson's wealth, giving him more money to give back to politicians in support for more war in the Middle East.

On US candidates:

"I have long quoted Susan Huck: national politics is a contest between Council on Foreign Relations Team A and Council on Foreign Relations Team B."

Sounds about right.

"What is the primary function of voting? To keep voters pacified. It’s cheap insurance for Washington.
The country is now saved. But it will be threatened again in two years. Mark my words!"

That's the function our rulers use it for, but we can vote to defend ourselves.

Sports

At the request of the NFL, NCAA and other major sports leagues, a judge blocked sports gambling in New Jersey.

"After a week of rapid-fire legal filings, Judge Michael Shipp ruled the sports leagues would suffer irreparable harm if thoroughbred track Monmouth Park began accepting sports bets Sunday as planned."

How?

"Before it's over, the Department of Justice also could weigh in. For now, though, the NCAA, NFL, NBA, NHL and MLB have stopped bettors from legally wagering on their games in New Jersey."

Why? What do they gain? It seems to me, the more people who bet on sports, the better for the leagues.

"Monmouth Park has spent the last month and a half preparing to turn its sport bar and restaurant into a sportsbook. It has hired employees and formed an independent regulation committee, the Independent Sports Association.
The park was expecting thousands of bettors to attend Sunday."

The ruling unequivocally harmed those guys.

Sports

NFL, NCAA other leagues file suit to block sports gambling in New Jersey.

""It's the leagues' last hurrah to perpetuate their stranglehold over sports betting which they condone and exploit for their own benefit," Lesniak said of the leagues' latest legal challenge."

How do they do that?