Local lawmakers confront faculty's worries - 2004-01-30
Local legislators talked state employee benefits, increasing health care fees and Medicaid, the chance of a lottery and other pressing concerns with UA faculty members Thursday morning at the Legislative Agenda Committee's breakfast meeting at the Four Points Sheraton Hotel.
Bill Jones, UA director of government relations, stated that a lottery bid is really a secret door to launching casino gambling in the state, to which he said he is not personally against, but he said it would be a very uncertain way to fund education.
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