Bishop Woosley Hired as Consultant for SCA Lottery Division
Arkansas' former lottery director has been hired to consult for one of the industry's biggest vendors. read more >
Arkansas' former lottery director has been hired to consult for one of the industry's biggest vendors. read more >
Mark Hearn has been appointed sales director of the Arkansas Scholarship Lottery, a division of the Arkansas Department of Finance & Administration. read more >
J. Eric Hagler was appointed director of the Arkansas Scholarship Lottery in August. read more >
Arkansans have a convenient new way to play lottery draw games without a trip to the convenience store in these days of COVID-19: an app called Jackpocket that players can download to their smartphones. read more >
Gov. Asa Hutchinson has appointed J. Eric Hagler the new director of the Arkansas Scholarship Lottery, replacing Bishop Woosley, who officially stepped down on Monday. read more >
Bishop Woosley, director of the Arkansas Scholarship Lottery, has submitted his resignation, effective Aug. 3. read more >
Arkansas' lottery says it sold more than $516 million in tickets for the fiscal year, setting a new record and raising more than $98 million for college scholarships. read more >
Facing a $1.3 million breach-of-contract suit from longtime Little Rock adman Gary Heathcott, marketing agency CJRW is taking a few weeks to answer the legal complaint and may be considering settlement talks, several observers suggest. read more >
The Arkansas Economic Development Commission names Mitch Chandler to a new position, director of executive communications. read more >
Bishop Woosley has been elected first vice president of the North American Association of State & Provincial Lotteries in Concord, Ohio. read more >
CJRW and its neighbors and frequent partners across Main Street, the video production team at Waymack & Crew, brought home some shiny trinkets last month at the Hermes Creative Awards and Telly Awards. read more >
Two separate cases involving lotteries in Arkansas and Iowa may have shared tech, lies and videotape in common, but that's where the similarities end. read more >
Little Rock marketing agency CJRW has removed Gary Heathcott from the Arkansas Scholarship Lottery account, the agency says, less than three years after acquiring his services and his list of clients in a much-ballyhooed deal. read more >
Bill Waddell was recognized earlier this month as one of five recipients of the American Bar Association’s Pro Bono Publico Award for 2017. read more >
Disputes over recent state contracts have put Republican lawmakers at odds with the Republican governor, angered potential vendors and muddied understanding on what businesses can expect from the process of awarding state work. read more >
The day after CJRW signed a hotly contested $34.5 million advertising contract on Feb. 16, a team led by Gary Heathcott at CJRW was busy putting a new face to the Arkansas Scholarship Lottery. read more >
The state reopened the bidding process on its largest advertising contract Wednesday afternoon, seeking pricing information from ad agencies hoping to land a $14 million-a-year pact for marketing Arkansas tourism and the state parks system. read more >
The State Office of Procurement canceled its bid solicitation for the state’s biggest advertising contract — the $14 million-a-year deal for marketing state tourism — just days before written responses from agencies were due. read more >
It wasn’t smooth, but the Arkansas Scholarship Lottery has a new advertising agency, CJRW of Little Rock. read more >
A legislative subcommittee gave a thumbs-up to a five-year, $34.5 million advertising contract to CJRW to market the Arkansas Scholarship lottery. But first, lawmakers got a primer on the limitations they face in reviewing contracts. read more >
