Washington Examiner
Nevada lawmakers taunt casino industry with push to abandon 159-year ban on statewide lotteries
Despite being known for its gaming industry and casinos,
Nevada
is one of five states without a statewide lottery. That's by design.
A statewide lottery is banned in Nevada's 159-year-old constitution. The constitution was written when lotteries were seen as corrupt and coincided with a series of national reforms, most famously abolition, that…