Brantley: "Jerry Cox was right on lottery"

Arkansas Times editor Max Brantley is well known in this state for his cranky doctrinaire liberalism. At the same time he wants government to grow, he paradoxically has seen too much to not be skeptical when it does. A complex individual to be sure. Today he said "Jerry Cox was right" about claims that the lottery would expand government-sponsored gambling far beyond the weekly scratch numbers game that House Speaker Robbie Wills and others once implied.