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Governor Schwarzenegger Signs Bill Ratifying Compact to Allow up to 5,000 Class III Slots at Red Hawk Casino9/30/2008, Biz Journal
MINNEAPOLIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Lakes Entertainment, Inc. (NASDAQ: LACO - News) announced today that California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has signed the bill ratifying the amended compact between the Shingle Springs Band of Miwok Indians and the State of California, which will allow for Class III gaming to be offered at the Red Hawk Casino located in Shingle Springs, California. The casino is currently under construction and will be managed by Lakes Entertainment.

Two Maze bills get vetoed9/29/2008, Visalia Times - Delta
SACRAMENTO - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger delivered double defeats this weekend to Assemblyman Bill Maze, R-Visalia, vetoing the legislator's bills to boost economic development at Porterville's airport and to prohibit drivers from holding pets. Assembly Bill 1884 would have allowed the Tule River Indian Tribe and Porterville to create a joint powers authority that could issue bonds and promote development on 1,200 acres near the city's airport. "As I had said before in vetoing similar measures, allowing a tribal government that is not subject to all federal, state and local laws to participate in the exercise of public power, particularly off reservations, diminishes public accountability," the governor wrote in his veto message. Governor's suggestion He added that tribes instead can work with cities and counties through agreements or memoranda of understanding "as contemplated in the tribal-state compacts my administration has executed. "I encourage the proponents of this measure to pursue their objectives in this manner," Schwarzenegger concluded. Maze could not be reached for comment.

Politics or Cronyism? 
 
Was McCain A Key Player In Point Molate Casino?
9/29/2008, The Berkeley Daily Planet   Is Republican presidential nominee John McCain the key player in the behind-the-scenes maneuvers which may turn the East Bay into California's first urban gambling resort? Sunday's New York Times featured a major investigation of the ties of the Arizona senator and his staff to the gambling industry, closing with a look at his role in the controversial billion-dollar casino planned for Richmond's Point Molate. Initially opposed to the spread of tribal casinos into cities, McCain changed his position after the Guidivlle Rancheria Pomo band briefly hired Wes Gullet, a Phoenix-based lobbyist, the Times reported.
 
Rival Gangs:
Banning man arrested in fatal stabbing at Morongo powwow9/29/2008, The Press Enterprise
Riverside County homicide detectives arrested a Banning man Sunday suspected of fatally stabbing a man during a fight between two rival gangs at the Morongo Indian powwow. Jorge Luis Gutierrez, 20, is suspected of inflicting the chest wound that killed Anthony Ray Morales Jr., 20, of Banning, during the fight Saturday night. Police believe the two rival gangs were both attending the Morongo Band of Mission Indians' Thunder and Lightning PowWow, Riverside County sheriff's Central Homicide Sgt. Michael Lujan said. 
 
Deadly stabbing outside Indian casino  9/28/2008, ABC - local station CABAZON (CNS) -- One person died from a stabbing, and three others were injured, in an apparent gang-related assault at a public cultural event being staged this weekend in a Morongo Casino parking lot, authorities said Sunday. One person was stabbed in the chest, one was stabbed in the abdomen, and a third person sustained a broken nose in the incident, which was reported at 9:50 p.m. Saturday at the 18th Annual Thunder and Lightning Pow Wow, according to Riverside County sheriff's officials. The two severely injured stabbing patients underwent emergency surgery at Desert Regional Medical Center in Palm Springs, according to sheriff's Sgt. Tony Greer.

Man killed in stabbing at rancheria; suspect held
9/27/2008, The Press Democrat
A Mendocino County man who was stabbed early Friday during an assault at the Hopland Rancheria died later at a hospital, authorities said. A suspect is being held.

 
Employee Free Choice Act:

Cole: Tribal governments under fire  9/29/2008, Indian Country Today I wear a number of hats in my professional life: I am the congressman from the 4th District in Oklahoma, the chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee, and the only enrolled member of a federally recognized Indian tribe in the U.S. Congress. I spend a lot of time with tribal leaders and tribal people, and I am often asked the following question: "What is the greatest current threat to tribal governmental sovereignty?" There is no question in my mind what the answer is, and I respond by saying, "In this Congress and the next, tribes face the greatest threat to their sovereign governments that the U.S. Congress has attempted in decades: the so-called Employee Free Choice Act."
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Important to Participate - Rulemaking
 
EPA invites Public Comment
9/2/2008, Federal Register
EPA invites public comments on its responses during the 30 day comment period specified below. EPA sent reponses directly to the states on August 19 and tribes on or around August 20, 2008, and plans to make final designation determinations for the 2006 24 hour PM2.5 National Ambient Air Quality Standards. Comments Due: December 18, 2008. 
Below are  the links to U.S. EPA's website on proposed federal PM2.5 designations.  For each state, the website contains the State's original recommendations, as well as EPA's response to those recommendations.  The first link is for State designations, and the second is for tribal areas:
 
http://www.epa.gov/pmdesignations/2006standards/state.htm
http://www.epa.gov/pmdesignations/2006standards/tribal.htm
 
American Indian Population and Labor Force Report9/24/2008, Federal Register:September 16, 2008 (Volume 73, Nu
SUMMARY: The Assistant Secretary--Indian Affairs (AS-IA) is seeking comments on the American Indian Population and Labor Force Report as we prepare to reinstate the collection as required by the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. The Indian Employment, Training and Related Services Demonstration Act (Act) of 1992 requires the Secretary to develop, maintain and publish, not less than biennially, a report on the population by gender, income level, age, and availability for work. Comments Due:  Nov. 17, 2008 
 

 
Compulsive Gambling Institute
1-800-GAMBLER 24 Hour Problem Gambling Help Line - Tom Tucker, Chief Executive Officer
 

Upcoming Conference
INDIAN COUNTRY'S WINNING HAND, October 16-17, 2008, Radisson Fort McDowell Resort & Casino Scottsdale/Fountian Hills, Arizona. Register online: www.law.asu.edu/ilp
 
 

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