By ANNE Z. COOKE for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Sunday, November 16, 2008
Lakeside, Calif - If there’s one true thing about casinos, it’s that they all feel alike.
Walk through that big smoked-glass door and you know where you are in an instant. The casino floor, where the money is won and lost, could be just about anywhere. [...]

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By CHRIS NICHOLS - Staff Writer | Sunday, November 9, 2008
PAUMA VALLEY —- Casino Pauma this week announced plans to lay off an unspecified number of workers.
The casino would be the second in the area to cut employees in recent months, demonstrating that gaming centers are not immune to the deepening economic downturn.

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BARONA VALLEY RANCH RESORT & CASINO CERTIFIED WITH LOOSEST TABLE GAMES IN CALIFORNIA FOR BLACKJACK AND ROULETTE
Official Certifications Ensure Best Odds of Winning
(SAN DIEGO) Nov. 7, 2008 - Barona Valley Ranch Resort & Casino announced today that it has been certified as having the loosest blackjack and the loosest roulette in California. The Blackjack Hall [...]

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By North County Times | Monday, October 20, 2008
SAN PASQUAL INDIAN RESERVATION —- Officials with the San Pasqual Band of Mission Indians broke ground Monday on their new, 161-room hotel.
The tribe owns the Valley View Casino near Valley Center. It plans to build a boutique hotel to make room for guests that want to stay [...]

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Casino resorts bring wealth only to some
By James P. Sweeney and Onell R. Soto, STAFF WRITERS
October 16, 2008
Anthony Pico laughs as he recalls a trip to Washington in the early days of Indian gambling. The longtime Viejas chairman and the tribe’s attorney rode the subway to a room they shared in a seedy neighborhood that [...]

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Tribes oppose set of proposed security rules
By James P. Sweeney, U-T SACRAMENTO BUREAU
October 15, 2008
SACRAMENTO - Pushing ahead in an edgy standoff with Indian tribes, California’s gambling commission voted yesterday to impose a set of minimum security standards on tribal casinos.
The unanimous vote came after more than a dozen tribes reaffirmed their opposition to the [...]

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By Onell R. Soto, STAFF WRITER
October 9, 2008
EAST COUNTY - A tribe fighting to build a casino on a tiny reservation next to a curvy state highway is taking its battle to court.
The Jamul Indian Village sued the California Department of Transportation last week over the state’s threat to block a driveway to the reservation [...]

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SAN DIEGO UNION-TRIBUNE
October 9, 2008
FEDERAL COURT - North County’s San Pasqual Indian band has won a court decision that mirrors a victory by the neighboring Rincon band on the issue of how many slot machines their casinos are allowed under compacts signed in 1999.
But more court decisions are expected before the issue is finally settled.

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Valley View and Harrah’s Rincon casinos each want at least 2,000 slots
By TERI FIGUEROA - Staff Writer | Wednesday, October 8, 2008
Now that a federal appeals court says two North County tribes can sue the state of California in a bid to add hundreds of slot machines, the tribes can tell a judge why the [...]

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By James P. Sweeney, U-T SACRAMENTO BUREAU
October 6, 2008
SACRAMENTO - The global credit squeeze has chilled sources of financing needed to complete a new Indian casino resort in Imperial County, a major credit-rating agency has warned.
Fitch Ratings late Friday downgraded $155 million in bonds issued for the new Quechan casino and said the tribe faces [...]

Posted on October 7th, 2008 by hunwut
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