Writer says Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe won't ever open a casino in southeastern Massachusetts:
We are now at the one year anniversary of the referendum that approved a tribal casino in East Taunton. Let’s discuss the developments since. The tribe has submitted its land into trust application to the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Currently, it is incomplete as it lacks proof of aboriginal land claims to Taunton. The compact between the commonwealth and the tribe has been rejected by the Bureau of Indian Affairs as being, in part, usury. A new compact, arguably just as usury as the first, is stuck in the Economic and Emerging Technologies Subcommittee at the Statehouse. KG Urban, a commercial casino developer, has filed suit in the First Circuit Federal Court.Get the Story:
Frank Lagace: Mashpee casino bid dishonest, unlikely to succeed (The Taunton Daily Gazette 6/8) Another Opinion:
Brian Kennedy: Accountability needed in reflection on referendum (The Taunton Daily Gazette 6/8)
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