And now:Ish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Saturday, September 11th, 1999 ASSOCIATED PRESS Deal: Chairman Mark A. Macarro, left, of the Pechanga tribe, signs the Tribal Sate Gaming Compact as California Gov. Gray Davis looks on during a news conference at the Capitol announcing the agreement. Davis, Tribes OK Accords to Allow More Gambling http://www.latimes.com/HOME/NEWS/FRONT/leadstory.html Casinos: Twenty-year compacts signed by 57 Indian leaders would legitimize Nevada-style gaming and let it expand. Deal hinges on voters' approval of ballot measure. -- SACRAMENTO -- In an extraordinary ceremony after days of roller-coaster talks, Gov. Gray Davis and 57 Indian leaders signed accords Friday to significantly expand gambling operations on reservations and allow them to include Nevada-style slot machines and card games. At the same time, lawmakers approved with little dissent a proposed state constitutional amendment that would help implement the compacts by affirming Indians' right to operate casinos legally on tribal land. That right was contained in Proposition 5, passed by voters last fall, but the state Supreme Court struck the measure down last month. Davis said the compact "honors my commitment to allow for a modest expansion of gaming" in California. "It balances the interests of the Indian people and th! ! e ot her people of this great state," he said. "And for those tribes that adopt it, this compact offers security and economic promise." New Mexico court sacks lawsuit against gambling http://www.lvrj.com/lvrj_home/1999/Sep-11-Sat-1999/business/11928022.html -- SANTA FE, N.M. -- The state Supreme Court Friday threw out a lawsuit by gambling opponents who sought to invalidate the 1997 state law that legalized casinos. It was the only pending challenge to the law, which authorizes Indian tribes to have full-scale casinos and race tracks and veterans' and fraternal clubs to have slot machines. The court, in a unanimous opinion, agreed with Gov. Gary Johnson that the plaintiffs in the case -- including a handful of lawmakers -- do not have legal standing to bring the case. Idaho Indian tribe plans $32.5 million hotel-casino project http://www.lvrj.com/lvrj_home/1999/Sep-11-Sat-1999/business/11910924.html -- WORLEY, Idaho -- The Coeur d'Alene Tribe plans to break ground later this month on a destination resort on its northern Idaho reservation, including a greatly expanded casino and a 110-room hotel. Plans that tribal officials estimate will cost $32.5 million also call for a conference center, golf course, indoor arena and recreational vehicle park, and expanding employment from 450 to 700 jobs. "We're going to keep a mountain lodge theme, and stamped into it a Native American identity -- in the tile, the carpeting, the fixtures -- all in a very elegant way," said David Matheson, the tribe's chief executive officer for gambling. New Canadian casino attracts crowds of New York gamblers http://www.lvrj.com/lvrj_home/1999/Sep-11-Sat-1999/business/11929512.html -- BUFFALO, N.Y. -- When a Canadian race track minutes from Buffalo opened a long-awaited casino, Americans wasted no time in crossing the border to try their luck. "I think it's gorgeous. I think it's absolutely gorgeous. ... I'm really impressed," Buffalo resident Michael Marchioli said Thursday while dropping coins into a 25-cent machine. But not everyone is happy. "I just hear a big sucking sound in western New York with all our money going over the Peace Bridge," said Jerry Schweibel, general manager of Buffalo Raceway in Hamburg. Gulf Coast resorts help drive Mississippi gambling boom http://www.lvrj.com/lvrj_home/1999/Sep-11-Sat-1999/business/11922800.html The state's casinos had $2.3 billion in revenue in the recently ended fiscal year. -- JACKSON, Miss. -- Mississippi's casino industry is not through growing, and the state can count on more tax collections from the gambling boats and new jobs into 2001, lawmakers were told. Increases are projected in all areas of the state with casinos, but the Gulf Coast should see the greatest boom, Gaming Commission Executive Director Chuck Patton said Thursday. Fueling the projected 14 percent growth on the coast are the $670 million Beau Rivage in Biloxi, opened this March, and several unfinished coast projects, including the Hard Rock Casino, Patton said. ................ "The crime that cries out for justice should not be put off to boards of supervisors, chancery clerks ... can we afford justice?" he asked lawmakers. -- To spend more money on the new Natural Science Museum. The Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks estimates that yearly visits to the museum, which opens in a new building in January, will increase from 80,000 to 200,000. The department also asked the budget committee for two new wildlife officers and two fisheries positions. Reprinted under the Fair Use http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.html doctrine of international copyright law. &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&& Tsonkwadiyonrat (We are ONE Spirit) Unenh onhwa' Awayaton http://www.tdi.net/ishgooda/ UPDATES: CAMP JUSTICE http://shell.webbernet.net/~ishgooda/oglala/ &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&
