Stand Up for California! is a statewide organization with a focus on gambling issues including tribal gaming, card clubs, horse racing, charitable gaming and the state lottery.

Residents wary of tribal annexation plans to build casino
3/23/2008, The Press-Enterprise
As residents and San Jacinto city officials keep a watchful eye on the Soboba Band of Luiseno Indians' plans to annex 535 acres to its reservation and build a new hotel-casino, others are debating the efficacy of the environmental review process and the federal government's oversight. The tribe wants to convert the 535 acres it already owns along Soboba Road between State Street and Lake Park Drive into federal "fee-to-trust" status and build the new hotel-casino complex on 35 to 40 acres at Lake Park Drive and Soboba Road.

Reservations Rebuffed
3/23/2008, Congressional Quarterly
Tribal casinos, which have bulked into a multibillion-dollar industry since Congress first gave them its blessing two decades ago, now possess all sorts of economic and political clout - but not enough, it seems, for them to go off the reservation. American Indians marooned on reservations far from population centers have long pressed the Interior Department to grant them the authority to launch gambling operations closer to where the people willing to risk their money live - and rake in the sort of revenues that the more fortuitously situated tribes have enjoyed. These tribes argue that the mass repatriation of Indians onto federal reservations in the 19th century was originally an unjust process driven by little more than federal fiat and so shouldn't form any basis for sound policy now. What's more, they argue, tribes now flush with gambling money, such as Connecticut's Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation, came into possession of optimally sited reservation land via controversial treaties that often had little or nothing to do with the location of ancestral land.

Pechanga resort closes two clubs
3/22/2008, North County Times
Riverside County sheriff's Capt. Jerry Williams said he met with Pechanga officials Friday morning about the issue."They said they are going to look at what to do in the future," Williams said.The captain said it is not uncommon to have incidents of all kinds at nightclubs where alcohol is served, ranging from thefts to assaults."Some people become more of a problem than others when they drink alcohol," Williams said.