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seemed more practical for Wyoming to participate in a multi-state lottery rather than set up its own game.
• A company that operates the multi-state lottery likely would provide the equipment and run the games in exchange for keeping a percentage of the ticket sales, he said.
• A statewide lottery had been continually shot down in the Legislature since the 1980s. Until this year, the lottery proposal had never even cleared the House, where revenue-generating bills must originate.
• Opponents had long argued that a statewide lottery is a form of gambling and is a regressive tax on poor residents who play the game.
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Company to add 1,000 tech jobs in South Dakota
DIRK LAMMERS,Associated Press
• VERMILLION, S.D. (AP) -- A Minnesota company will bring 1,000 information technology consultant jobs to South Dakota as part of an effort to keep high-tech positions from being shipped overseas, Gov. Dennis Daugaard and company officials announced Wednesday.
• Eagle Creek Software Services, provides Web and app development and technical support to large health care, financial services and other companies, plans to build a new $10 million, 200-employee office in Vermillion and partner with the University of South Dakota to help train its potential hires, said Chief Executive Ken Behrendt.
• Daugaard said state economic development officials often include training money in incentive packages, but directing the training money to a university in the form of tuition and fees for students who want to take the classes is a new approach.
• "We're not only helping Eagle Creek, but we're using those economic development dollars to help the USD and the students who come here," Daugaard said during a news conference Wednesday. "So it's really a unique arrangement."
• Behrendt said the partnership allows for expansion of Eagle Creek's Dakota model, which uses U.S.-based project centers in lower-cost areas such as South Dakota and North Dakota as an alternative to providing IT support from India or other overseas locations.
• The company says it can competitively provide consulting services out of South Dakota as opposed to an overseas location because it's a business-friendly state with no corporate or income tax.
• Behrendt said there are numerous hidden costs with sending development jobs overseas. In addition to avoiding language, cultural and time-zone issues that arise (Continued on page 17)
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