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House Committee Votes Decisively For Internet Gambling

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 23:00:06 GMT

(WASHINGTON, DC) -- The House Financial Services Committee voted 41-22 on Wednesday to pass a bill that would legalize and regulate Internet gambling in the United States, while rejecting an amendment to protect tribal gaming interests.

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BLOG: Indian Casinos: More Is Less Education

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 23:00:06 GMT

(USA) -- A study of tribal casinos shows a checkered pattern of benefits and drawbacks for those on the reservation. William Evans and Wooyoung Kim found that when casinos open, local wages and employment rates improve, but drop-out rates increase and rates of college enrollment tend to decline.

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Senate leader: Casino bill still alive as legislative session ends

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 23:00:06 GMT

(MASSACHUSETTS) -- The clock is ticking on legalizing casinos in Massachusetts, and with the legislative session ending this week, state Senate President Therese Murray says there's still time to reach a compromise.

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Casino Rumors Swirl Around Sheboygan

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 23:00:06 GMT

(WISCONSIN) -- Rumors of a casino making it’s way to Sheboygan are swirling around town. The Sheboygan Press reported Wednesday that “Sheboygan officials have laid the groundwork for a casino in the city’s South Pier District in meetings with Kohler Company and a northern Wisconsin Indian Tribe”, and stated that Mayor Bob Ryan has been working on bringing a casino to Sheboygan shortly after taking office in 2009.

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Barbour Says All Choctaws Should Vote On Proposed Casino

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 23:00:06 GMT

(MISSISSIPPI) -- Gov. Haley Barbour said the entire Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians should get to vote on a proposed casino in Jones County.

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Rivals SEIU, Unite Here reach deal on hotel, casino workers

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 23:00:06 GMT

(CALIFORNIA) -- An 18-month brawl between the powerful unions SEIU and Unite Here ended this week with a deal that sends tens of millions of dollars in disputed assets to Unite Here and secures its rights to organize workers in hotels and casinos.

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Shinnecocks: We've got dozens of casino options in Suffolk, Riverhead

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 23:00:06 GMT

(NEW YORK) -- The three Calverton sites that have been presented to Suffolk County's Gaming Task Force as possible locations for a Shinnecock Indian Nation casino are not the only ones in Riverhead Town the Shinnecocks have been offered, according to Lance Gumbs, a senior trustee with the tribe.

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'Carcieri fix' bill author says he can't address RI concerns

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 23:00:06 GMT

(WASHINGTON, DC) -- While reaffirming his support for legislation to clear the way for many Indian tribes to seek a federal trust status that could exempt lands from state and local laws, an influential lawmaker has expressed doubt about answering the concerns of officials from Rhode Island - where a controversial court case on this issue began.

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Bank officials justify Thomas loan as marketing maneuver

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 23:00:06 GMT

(CONNECTICUT) -- Two bank employees testified in New London Superior Court Wednesday that seeking a "foothold in … Foxwoods" by granting multimillion-dollar loans to Michael Thomas, the former chairman of the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation, was intended to boost Sovereign Bank's visibility in the Connecticut lending market, not improperly steer casino business to the bank.

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Mohegans report rough quarter as profits plunge

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 23:00:06 GMT

(CONNECTICUT) -- The Mohegan Tribal Gaming Authority reported today its profits declined by more than half for its latest quarter compared with the same period last year.

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Foxwoods: New ‘arrangement’ near for stalled casino

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 23:00:06 GMT

(PENNSYLVANIA) -- A lawyer for the Foxwoods Casino project told state gaming commissioners today that the development's partners expect to submit to regulators next week a new "arrangement" for reviving the stalled gaming project.

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River Spirit Casino Event Center has grand opening

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 23:00:06 GMT

(OKLAHOMA) -- With a little more than a month to prepare, the River Spirit Event Center held its grand opening Wednesday.

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Far fewer slots at new casino

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 23:00:06 GMT

(MICHIGAN) -- Why Hartford? And what's a satellite casino? Those were among the questions being asked after the gaming authority for the Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians voted Tuesday to build the tribe's second casino, after Four Winds in New Buffalo, on tribal land in Hartford Township.

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Tribe honors employees, marks resort's anniversary

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 23:00:06 GMT

(MICHIGAN) -- Bob Van Wert remembers when there was a wooden barrier between the Soaring Eagle Casino and newly created convention and resort section just before they opened July 1998.

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Guv candidates undecided on Anthony casino proposal

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 23:00:06 GMT

(NEW MEXICO) -- With a proposal to build an off-reservation casino in Anthony recently resurfacing, both candidates for governor say they need more time to consider the issue before they’d decide whether to allow the casino to be built.

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Snoqualmie Tribe gives out more than $350,000 in mitigation money from casino

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 23:00:06 GMT

(WASHINGTON) -- Snoqualmie Valley groups received more than $350,000 from the Snoqualmie Tribe in its first disbursement of mitigation money from the tribe-owned Snoqualmie Casino.

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Casino fight might head to court

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 23:00:06 GMT

(OREGON) -- It’s a gamble, but both sides in a looming mega-fight over a proposed private casino east of Portland may seek judicial rulings to determine what goes before Oregon voters in November.

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Tohono O'odham wins latest battle for trust status at 91st/Northern

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 23:00:06 GMT

(ARIZONA) -- The latest battle in the war between the Tohono O'odham Nation and the City of Glendale over a casino development on the southwest corner of Northern and 91st avenues goes to the Tribe.

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BOG: Injuries On The Reservation – Do The Tribes Have A Dog In The Fight?

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 23:00:06 GMT

(WASHINGTON) -- Indian casinos punctuate Washington’s landscape. A quick glance into the rearview mirror while driving along any interstate or highway shows a backdrop of brightly lit buildings advertising slots and tables.

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Obama to sign bill targeting violent crime on Indian reservations

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 23:00:06 GMT

(WASHINGTON, DC) -- A measure designed to ease stubbornly high rates of violent crime, including rape and sexual assault, within Indian reservations will be signed into law by President Obama on Thursday.

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Seneca County hands over seized smokes, business records to Cayuga Indian Nation

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 23:00:06 GMT

(NEW YORK) -- Seneca County today complied with a court order and turned over 12,628 cartons of cigarettes that it seized in a 2008 tax raid from the Cayuga Indian Nation’s LakeSide Trading store in Seneca Falls.

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Gas stations: latest fight of tribes against the locals?

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 23:00:06 GMT

(CALIFORNIA) -- At a Porterville City Council meeting last week, a group of gas station owners got up and spoke out against a plan by the Tule River Tribe to open up a 40-acre retail complex near that town’s airport.

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Audit finds agencies fail to identify, repatriate Native American remains

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 23:00:06 GMT

(WASHINGTON, DC) -- A year-long audit released Wednesday by the Government Accountability Office said no federal agencies with significant historical collections of Native American remains or associated sacred objects are in full compliance with a law mandating documentation and repatriation of the remains, despite passage of the act nearly 20 years ago.

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Riverside County supervisors say they can't intervene in Colorado River land dispute

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 23:00:06 GMT

(CALIFORNIA) -- Close to 50 people upset about a land dispute with the Colorado River Indian Tribes showed up Tuesday to ask Riverside County supervisors to intervene, only to be told the county has no jurisdiction.

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Arizona objects to transfer of sweat-lodge case

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 23:00:06 GMT

(ARIZONA) -- Prosecutors are objecting to a defense motion to have the trial for a motivational speaker charged with three counts of manslaughter moved out of northern Arizona's Yavapai County.

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Denver-based firm files against Ute Tribe

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 23:00:06 GMT

(COLORADO) -- Attorneys for QEP Resources Inc., a natural gas producer, have filed legal papers asking the federal court in Salt Lake City to stop the Ute Tribe from banishing the Questar spinoff company from the Uintah-Ouray reservation in eastern Utah.

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U.S. House members sign letter against Sealaska lands bill

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 23:00:06 GMT

(ALASKA) -- Dozens of U.S. House members have signed a letter opposing a bill allowing an Alaska Native corporation to select choice land in the nation's largest national forest for its own use.

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Tex Hall to run again for tribal chairman

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 23:00:06 GMT

(NORTH DAKOTA) -- Former Three Affiliated Tribes Chairman Tex Hall says he will seek the position again, possibly setting up a repeat of the 2006 election showdown on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation.

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Rights panel: Din� must lead fight

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 23:00:06 GMT

(ARIZONA) -- After hearing some delegates describe their own or their constituents' personal experiences of racial discrimination, the Navajo Nation Council on July 19 voted 45-3 to accept the Navajo Nation Human Rights Commission's report on race relations in border towns.

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Council approves referendum on electing judges

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 23:00:06 GMT

(ARIZONA) -- A referendum on the Nov. 2 ballot will ask Navajo voters if district court judges and Supreme Court justices should be elected, rather than appointed as they are now.

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Tribe hopes to fund Cherokee as foreign language class in public schools

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 23:00:06 GMT

(NORTH CAROLINA) -- The Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians is urging the state to formally license Cherokee language teachers, enabling Cherokee courses taught in public schools off the reservation to count toward a student’s foreign language requirement.

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Federal Judge Overturns Interior Decision to Block Nuclear Fuel Storage

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 23:00:06 GMT

(UTAH) -- A federal judge in Denver has overturned an Interior Department decision to block spent nuclear fuel from being stored on the Skull Valley Goshute Indian Reservation.

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Place your bets: Online gambling clears obstacle

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 23:00:06 GMT

(WASHINGTON, DC) -- Congress took a step on Wednesday to allow for legalized gambling over the Internet when a House panel approved a bill that would license companies to offer online poker and other casino games.

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Privacy commissioner orders shutdown of BCLC online gambling site until glitches can be fixed

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 23:00:06 GMT

(BRITISH COLUMBIA) -- Provincial privacy commissioner Elizabeth Denham has ordered the government’s online gambling website to remain shut down until the B.C. Lottery Corp. can find out what caused a computer glitch that allowed some gamblers to play other people’s money.

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Pol: 8 p.m. deadline set for casino bill

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 23:00:06 GMT

(MASSACHUSETTS) -- A Beacon Hill push to legalize casinos in Massachusetts will be dead if leaders can’t reach a compromise by 8 tonight, a top senator said - upping the ante on already tense negotiations over the gambling bill.

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Frank’s push to legalize online gambling could weigh on Mass.

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 23:00:06 GMT

(MASSACHUSETTS) -- As Beacon Hill leaders struggle to grind out compromise legislation legalizing casinos in Massachusetts, a Congressional committee led by U.S. Rep. Barney Frank has approved a bill to legalize internet gambling, throwing a curveball that some lawmakers and analysts worry could cut into projected casino licensing and gaming proceeds.

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Two local mayors, two views on state's casino plans

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 23:00:06 GMT

(MASSACHUSETTS) -- Just like the Beacon Hill leaders trying to break a stalemate on casinos, Beverly Mayor Bill Scanlon and Salem Mayor Kim Driscoll would both like to see expanded gambling in the Bay State.

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Casino talks continue at State House

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 23:00:06 GMT

(MASSACHUSETTS) -- Lawmakers trying to forge an agreement on a bill that could bring five gambling facilities to the state met this afternoon at the State House. After an initial meeting finished up at 3 p.m., lawmakers planned to meet again after 5 p.m.

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U.S. GAMING : Industry's outlook uncertain

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 23:00:06 GMT

(WALL STREET) -- Double-digit declines in monthly state gaming revenues have dissipated in the first half of 2010, but a national credit and bond rating service isn't ready to say the financial health of the American casino industry is on the path to recovery.

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Customer loyalty called a must-win for casinos

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 23:00:06 GMT

(LAS VEGAS) -- The increasing popularity of gambling and casinos as mainstream entertainment is a double-edged sword for casino operators that must compete with properties offering the same games and similar entertainment options.

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Station Casinos, bondholders settle dispute

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 23:00:06 GMT

(LAS VEGAS) -- A development in the Station Casinos Inc. bankruptcy case Wednesday may clear the way for the Las Vegas company to avoid continued litigation as it emerges from bankruptcy with the founding Fertitta family still in control.

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To northern New Jersey, plan to rescue Atlantic City is seen as death to horse racing

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 23:00:06 GMT

(NEW JERSEY) -- Southern New Jersey state lawmakers may see much to support in the governor's gaming and entertainment plan for Atlantic City, but northern New Jersey lawmakers read the report as an obituary for another state pastime.

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Bachmann votes against bill to help Native American police combat rape ‘epidemic’

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 23:00:06 GMT

(MINNESOTA) -- A bill aimed at helping Native American law enforcement investigate rape and other crimes by non-Indians on tribal lands passed in the U.S. House of Representatives last week with overwhelming bipartisan support. Only one Minnesotan — Republican Michele Bachmann — voted against it.

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Twin River makes new casino pitch

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 23:00:06 GMT

(RHODE ISLAND) -- Twin River is making another pitch to the General Assembly to overturn the Governor's veto of a casino gambling ballot question.

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Casino to seat 3,800 players

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 23:00:06 GMT

(OHIO) -- The $400 million casino planned for the West Side will be among the biggest operated by Penn National Gaming.

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Wood Village casino initiative fails to make November ballot

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 23:00:06 GMT

(OREGON) -- One of two initiatives that would allow a gambling casino at the defunct Multnomah Kennel Club in Wood Village failed to gather enough valid signatures to get on the November ballot, the Oregon secretary of state's office announced Tuesday.

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Minnesota's charitable gambling jackpot shrinks

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 23:00:06 GMT

(MINNESOTA) -- Chalk it up to a generation gap -- or a tough economy. But charitable gambling receipts in Minnesota are reported to be at their lowest level in more than 20 years.

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New Hampshire’s Online Plans Adrift Until Fall

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 23:00:06 GMT

(NEW HAMPSHIRE) -- New Hampshire’s interactive lottery venture – which, thus far, has proven a political disaster – will be shelved until at least mid-September, lawmakers there have decided.

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KY Judge Expedites Instant Racing Petition

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 23:00:06 GMT

(KENTUCKY) -- A Kentucky judge is expediting the process by which various parties in the horse racing industry have requested a ruling on proposed administrative regulations involving Instant Racing.

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Alamogordo vying for Ruidoso track

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 23:00:06 GMT

(NEW MEXICO) -- Alamogordo city commissioners have asked the staff of the southern New Mexico community to put together an incentive package to lure Ruidoso Downs horse racing to Alamogordo if the track's owner decides to relocate.

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Wynn Resorts Quarterly Profit Doubles After Opening of Second Macau Casino

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 23:00:06 GMT

(WALL STREET) -- Wynn Resorts Ltd., owner of the Wynn and Encore casino resorts in Las Vegas and Macau, reported second-quarter profit doubled after the opening of its second property in the only part of China where casinos are legal.

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Matt Gurney: B.C. has no problem with gambling. It’s paying winners that’s the problem

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 23:00:06 GMT

(BRITISH COLUMBIA) -- Adrian MacNair recently wrote tellingly of how problem gamblers in British Columbia are picking up the tab for the province’s decision to press ahead with online gambling.

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OSKAR GARCIA: Las Vegas Sands narrows 2Q loss

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 23:00:06 GMT

(LAS VEGAS) -- Booming business in China and a new casino in Singapore led second-quarter revenue up 51 percent for Las Vegas Sands Corp. and helped narrow the casino developer and operator's quarterly loss, the company said Wednesday.

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PartyGaming, Bwin Web-Gambling Companies to Merge

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 23:00:06 GMT

(UK) -- PartyGaming Plc and Bwin Interactive Entertainment AG, an Austrian online betting company, aim to merge and create the world's biggest publicly traded online gambling business.

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South Korean Developer Courts Harrah's for Casino at Cambodia's Angkor Wat

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 23:00:06 GMT

(CAMBODIA) -- South Korean developer Intercity Group plans to start construction in October on a $400 million casino resort complex near Cambodia’s Angkor Wat temples that aims to draw high rollers from Macau and Singapore.

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