Today’s entry in our continuing series on Tribal Gaming in California by Jim Marino looks at the false economy of Indian casinos. For the state, that is. And any other residents who aren’t fortunate enough to have a profit stake in said casinos. You know, this has always been one of my particular stumbling blocks. [...]
Today’s entry in our ongoing series by Jim Marino on the development of tribal gaming in California deals with the immediate aftermath of the passage of Proposition 1A–the ballot measure that was a de facto legalization of tribal casino gambling in California. For Hawaiians, this is an interesting study in how special interests can lobby [...]
Today, we continue with the third part of our guest series on the development of Indian casino gaming in California, by Jim Marino. (This series originally ran in the Santa Ynez Valley Journal.) Sometimes it seems as though the issue of gaming is an unspoken controversy that advocates of the Akaka Bill are desperately trying [...]
Today, we are continuing our guest series on the history of Indian gaming in California by Jim Marino. Today’s excerpt (originally published in the Santa Ynez Valley Journal) looks more specifically at how we arrived at the legal definition of “Indian”–at least as far as the federal government and Indian gaming regulation is concerned. As [...]
Aug 182010
A big part of the debate over the Akaka Bill has revolved around exactly what rights and privileges will belong to the new Native Hawaiian “tribe” following reorganization, and with the issue of casino gaming and gambling long holding a contentious place in Hawaiian politics, it was inevitable that the proposed bill would have to [...]
Guest Series on Tribal Gaming (Part 7)
Today, we have the final installment of Jim Marino’s series on Indian casino gaming in California (originally published in the Santa Ynez Valley Journal). If you’ve been following the series, you’ve seen Marino build a case for the inherent problems of tribal gaming–from its end-run around initial state opposition to the damage it can cause [...]