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April 22, 2008North Dakota tribe plans to start work on casinoThe Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara Nation of North Dakota plans to break ground this summer on a $20 million casino. The Eagles Catch Casino will be located near Beulah, North Dakota. Plans call for a hotel and a convenience store...April 21, 2008Opinion: United Auburn casino will hurt Nevada"As my regular readers know, I'm not a big fan of virtually unregulated American Indian and/or Internet gambling. The huge Thunder Valley tribal casino near Auburn, Calif., just off I-80 on the way to Reno represents a major economic threat...Column: Gaming not so golden for Pequot Tribe"Stories about tribal spending have been legendary over the years, from the reported million-dollar-plus salaries for tribal councilors and six-figure annual stipends for tribal members to ridiculously high numbers of assistants assigned to government leaders. Local mayors and first...April 15, 2008Editorial: Negotiate with Poarch Creek Band"History does not repeat itself, but echoes of the past often can be heard. If he had listened, Attorney General Troy King might have heard a few of those echoes when he filed suit in U. S. District Court to...April 14, 2008Editorial: Amend the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act"It’s an election year, so there might be no great prospects for Sen. David Vitter’s latest efforts to tighten the rules of Indian gambling. With America’s tribes investing heavily in political action committees in both parties, even in the wake...Opinion: Off-reservation casino support dwindling"F or almost a decade, a debate has raged over whether state and federal governments should approve Oregon's first off-reservation casino, resort and parking lot in the Columbia River Gorge. And with each year, The Oregonian's logic to justify the...Analysis: Connecticut casinos are cooling off"Clyde Barrow’s annual analysis of New England’s gambling industry came a little too late to make a difference in this year’s casino debate. Barrow, one of the most knowledgeable local experts on the topic, often is targeted by opponents for...Opinion: America becoming a casino culture"In March, the Massachusetts House of Representatives rejected a measure that looked unstoppable when it was proposed by Gov. Deval Patrick last September: the authorization of “destination casinos” across the commonwealth. The plan was for Massachusetts to sell three...April 10, 2008Opinion: Put an end to Indian gaming 'monopoly'"Few people realize that San Diego County is arguably the gambling capital of California. We have five first-rate hotel/casinos plus another three smaller casinos. More casinos are on the planning board. All are owned by small local Indian tribes ----...April 9, 2008Editorial: Don't force smoking ban at tribal casinos"If the legislature keeps playing politics with a bill aimed at curtailing smoking at the state's two casinos, Gov. M. Jodi Rell should pledge to veto it as a way of moving the smoking ban forward. The governor announced last...April 7, 2008Editorial: County not truthful in Mechoopda casino fight"A few days back, Paul McIntosh, the former chief administrative officer of Butte County, wrote a letter to the editor accusing this paper of misrepresenting the county's position in regard to the Mechoopda Indians. This paper, reporting the county's lawsuit...Opinion: Seneca Nation casino not on trust land"The bustle of activity at the intersection of Michigan Avenue and Perry Street should not obscure the fact that the future of gambling on the Seneca-owned site remains very problematic. Travel east on the Thruway for three hours and...April 4, 2008ICT to debut new Indian gaming magazineIndian Country Today will publish a new magazine that focuses on Indian gaming later this year. The first issue of Indian Country Gaming Today debuts during the Global Gaming Expo in November. ICT says the magazine will focus on the...April 2, 2008Letter: Keep gaming money in Massachusetts"On March 24, the headline in The Standard-Times read, "Bay Staters betting big-time: Residents spent more than $1 billion at Conn., R.I. establishments." Yet we continue to allow this money to leave our state. I ask why? The Wampanoag Mashpee...March 31, 2008Opinion: Massachusetts vote helps Rhode Island"Former Providence Mayor Buddy Cianci declared the other day that Sal DiMasi is the greatest speaker of the House in Rhode Island history. The problem is DiMasi is the Massachusetts Speaker of the House. But the way Cianci sees it,...March 27, 2008Editorial: Help Tigua Tribe by selling lottery"Last year, Texas Gov. Rick Perry proposed selling the Texas Lottery to a private company. Perry believes, with good reason, that privatization of the Texas Lottery, which brings in about $1 billion a year, would make the operation more efficient....Column: Kill Passamaquoddy Tribe's racino bill"Imagine this scenario: Two items appear on a statewide referendum ballot, one to allow a big casino operation sponsored by Indian tribes to be established in, say, southern Maine, and the second to allow slot machines into one of the...Editorial: Turn Florida clasrooms into casinos"Florida depends more and more on gambling to pay for education. Why not go all in? Rather than wait passively for gamblers to ante up, schools actively should promote gambling. Florida's public schools should make gambling part of the core...Opinion: No to gaming in Massachusetts"It's over for this year. The House voted down the governor's casino proposal by a margin of 106 to 48 last week. The fabulously wealthy national casino operators had the best lobbyists and public relations people that money could buy....March 26, 2008Editorial: Settle labor issues at Mashantucket casino"The recent settlement of labor complaints demonstrates that the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation and unions can resolve differences without diminishing tribal sovereignty. The primary issue for the tribe is sovereignty. It contends that the National Labor Relations Act does not...March 25, 2008Rincon Chair: Fulfill promises of California compacts"The tribal perspective was missing in a recent article on state Sen. Jim Battin's legislation that deals with Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's administration's artificial limit on machine licenses. I. Nelson Rose, a professed expert on gambling, was quoted as saying that...Editorial: Tribal gaming is good for Wisconsin"A state audit released last week suggests every taxpayer in Wisconsin may be footing a bigger bill because gaming revenues are not what they could be. The audit found that Wisconsin tribes paid the state almost $200 million over the...March 24, 2008Editorial: Gaming rush put off in Massachusetts"A few months ago it looked like the New England casino industry was in for a drastic change. Massachusetts appeared to be rushing toward the licensing of three major casino resorts. Connecticut's monopoly on resort-scale gambling was seemingly near an...Editorial: Negotiate smoking at Connecticut casinos"Gov. Rell is the state's chief executive officer. The two tribes are sovereign nations. They are willing to talk about expanding the ban at their casinos, but they want to talk government to government. Why can't Gov. Rell and Attorney...March 20, 2008Editorial: Slow expansion of gaming in Florida"Before the Legislature expands casino-type gambling across the state, the South Florida pari-mutuels need to demonstrate that gambling's a business that can meet its promised potential. The caution flag needs to go up on a state Senate bill to allow...Editorial: The Dry Creek Rancheria casino threat"When 80 percent of Petaluma voters went to the polls in late 2006 and said “no” to a casino in their back yard, they meant no casino. So imagine the community’s collective dismay at the Sonoma County Board of Supervisors’...March 19, 2008Editorial: Don't force state's smoking ban on tribes"Mashantucket and Mohegan are sovereign nations. And sovereignty is the exclusive right to govern ones' self, or in this case, not to be regulated by the state. Attorney General Blumenthal maintains sovereignty isn't a factor in this case, since the...March 17, 2008Editorial: Compromise on Buena Vista casino deal"The Buena Vista Rancheria of Me-Wuk Indians is looking to open a casino on land that, according to a federal opinion, is legitimate American Indian land and eligible for such use. There's a lot of call-my-bluff action going on between...Opinion: Gaming will benefit Massachusetts"It is no secret that our state's fiscal situation has many cities and towns walking a financial tightrope. That is why we have helped launch the Massachusetts Coalition for Jobs and Growth (www.masscoalitionforjobsandgrowth.com), a group of people and organizations who...Column: Smoking ban at First Nations casinos"The indoor smoking ban arrived in Manitoba on Oct. 1, 2004 and applied across Manitoba, with the notable exception of businesses on First Nations land. Robert Jenkinson defied the law by permitting the patrons of his business, the Creekside Hideaway... |
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