LePage Backs off Keno Expansion Plan

Maine Public | By Ed Morin

Published March 10, 2015 at 5:56 PM EDT

AUGUSTA, Maine - The LePage administration has decided not to include keno among the draw games offered by the Maine State Lottery.

The Legislature is considering a bill that would block the administration from acting on its own to put as many as 300 terminals in 150 locations.

In a statement issued this afternoon, Gov. Paul LePage says that, while the executive branch is authorized to add a game to the Maine State Lottery without legislative approval, the state will not add keno this year.

The governor says that legislators could have avoided this debate by bringing their concerns to the administration.

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Ed Morin

Ed is a Maine native who spent his early childhood in Livermore Falls before moving to Farmington. He graduated from Mount Blue High School in 1970 before going to the University of Maine at Orono where he received his BA in speech in 1974 with a broadcast concentration. It was during that time that he first became involved with public broadcasting. He served as an intern for what was then called MPBN TV and also did volunteer work for MPBN Radio.

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