For some of our readers this headline sends terror throughout their body. For others, the headline is welcome news. Whichever side you are on, it looks like North Carolina will begin selling lottery tickets by the end of March. The News-Record story on this is here.

At least the good news is that Scientific Games, who is involved in the Jim Black scandal, was not awarded any of the contracts to run the games. See, corruption is just wasted money sometimes.