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Do benefits outweigh the social costs of casinos? - YAHOO!
including $34 billion from commercial casinos and $26 billion from Indian casinos. And any gambling expansion, such as the proposed establishment of casinos in Massachusetts and Texas, is debated largely on its ...
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Federal judge blocks implementation of cigarette tax for two western NY tribes - Syracuse Post-Standard
NY -- The state will move ahead Wednesday to collect taxes on cigarettes sold by most Indian tribes, including ... claiming the state has violated terms of a 2001 gambling agreement. The tribe has paid more than $700 ...
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DIALOGUES: Dances with poker chips
Harold Lee at his former poker house in Sierra Vista. (Mark Levy•Herald/Review) Commentary by Matt Hickman Herald/Review Harold “Judge” Lee’s dream began in Old Bisbee as a campaign to bring the neighborhood poker game out from the shadows of smoky casinos and oily garages. The mission has since become something far more vast and, some might even say, Quixotic: To save Native Americans from the ...
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Looking through fresh eyes
TULSA, Okla. – Although he has been before, Kyle Reans is seeing the Oklahoma Indian Gaming Association with new eyes. The general manager of the Western Delaware’s Gold River Casino in Anadarko, Okla. was once the deputy gaming commissioner of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation before taking the helm of the 1,400-member tribe’s sole gaming operation.
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N.Y. cigarette tax plans raise tensions at Indian reservation
CATTARAUGUS INDIAN RESERVATION, N.Y. — As New York Indian Nation leaders battle in courtrooms to preserve their tax-free cigarette market, tensions are rising on reservations, where the state's renewed efforts to tax sales to non-Native customers is viewed as yet another attack on Native American rights.
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NY cigarette tax plans raise tensions
CATTARAUGUS INDIAN RESERVATION, NY — As New York Indian Nation leaders battle in courtrooms to preserve their tax-free cigarette market, tensions are rising on reservations, where the state's renewed efforts to tax sales to non-Native customers is...
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New angle to NYS-Indian tax issue - Buffalo Business First
State Supreme Court Judge Donna Siwek ruled New York can collect taxes on cigarettes sold to non-natives on Indian reservations. Another ... to the state from its three Western New York casinos, located in Buffalo,
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Mayor urges Interior Dept. to take proposed casino land into Indian trust - Herald News
... tribe’s application for federal land sovereignty for the 300-acre tract the city agreed to sell the tribe if the state legalized gambling this ... But according to the Bureau of Indian Affairs web site,
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World Series of Poker Circuit to Make Historic Stop in Oklahoma - Poker News Daily
These major tours – with the WPT and the WSOP moving into Indian casinos to expand their tour’s potential – could mark an new “poker rush” among casinos and poker rooms that do not have any association with ...
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Is Oprah the key to legalizing poker in all of Arizona? - Arizona Daily Star
a short-lived poker room that was housed near Campbell and Glenn in Tucson in 2008. That club closed after getting sued by the Pascua Yaqui Indian Tribe, and a few days later was raised by Tucson police and the ...
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Atlantis Internet Group Signs Agreement to Supply Legal Online Poker Nationwide to Indian Casinos
LAS VEGAS, NV--(Marketwire - 09/08/10) - Atlantis Internet Group Corp. (Pinksheets: ATIG - News ) announced today that it has signed a licensing agreement with Cake Gaming NV to allow patrons in tribal casinos in more than 30 states to play poker online, legally and immediately. Cake, one of the largest and fastest growing poker networks in the world, currently supplies poker software in several ...
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Indians 101: The Mormons & the Shoshone - DAILY KOS
... Indians into its teachings. The Book of Mormon , upon which the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints is based, offers a history of Indians and sees them as the descendents of the tribe ... for gambling ...
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Indians 101: Christianity Comes to the Flathead Indians - DAILY KOS
... Indians, including Silver Eagle and Running Bear, to St. Louis where they met with William Clark. Clark, of Lewis and Clark fame, had first made contact with the tribe ... Robes by publically gambling,
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