By KENNETH OFGANG, Staff Writer
The California Department of Transportation is not prohibited from granting preferences to members of Indian tribes when hiring for, or contracting out, road construction and maintenance work on roads located on American Indian land, Attorney General Jerry Brown said in an opinion made public yesterday.

Posted on March 10th, 2010 by hunwut
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With recession, financial market freeze, tribe walks away from casino deal
By Victor Morales, Today correspondent
EL CAJON, Calif. - Recession and the credit freeze has convinced a California tribe to halt an expansion to their casino operations, informing Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger that it will forgo on a negotiated compact that would have more than doubled the [...]

Posted on January 5th, 2009 by hunwut
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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 [...]

Posted on October 15th, 2008 by hunwut
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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 [...]

Posted on October 8th, 2008 by hunwut
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Brown sides with tribes against gaming controls
By James P. Sweeney, U-T SACRAMENTO BUREAU
September 15, 2008
SACRAMENTO - When representatives of about 50 Indian tribes gathered with state regulators recently, everyone in the room knew that nearly all of the tribes were about to vote against a set of casino security standards sought by the state.
The surprise [...]

Posted on September 15th, 2008 by hunwut
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Legal face-off looms as the commission plans to adopt rules
By James P. Sweeney, U-T SACRAMENTO BUREAU
September 5, 2008
SACRAMENTO - Moving to the brink of a legal showdown, California gaming tribes yesterday overwhelmingly rejected a set of minimum security standards that the state wants to enforce in all Indian casinos.
In a startling surprise, Attorney General Jerry [...]

Posted on September 5th, 2008 by hunwut
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By James P. Sweeney, U-T SACRAMENTO BUREAU
August 26, 2008
SACRAMENTO – Over the past 18 months, a Barona-sponsored measure to create a new infraction with fines of up to $500 for trespassing on Indian reservations moved through the Legislature without a single no vote.
But the bill, SB 331, could never overcome the belief by some [...]

Posted on August 26th, 2008 by hunwut
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By MICHELLE DeARMOND and JIM MILLER, The Press-Enterprise  
Just a few months ago, images of smiling children, police officers and firefighters filled TV screens and mailboxes across the state, urging voters to support major casino expansions for four Southern California tribes.

Gov. Schwarzenegger and other government officials promised that the tribes would help balance the state’s [...]

Posted on July 26th, 2008 by hunwut
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Tribes oppose state’s oversight operation
By James P. Sweeney, U-T SACRAMENTO BUREAU
May 22, 2008
SACRAMENTO – Reversing itself, a Senate panel voted yesterday to restore funding for a team of slot-machine inspectors who represent a leading edge of the state’s effort to establish an independent presence in California’s Indian casinos.

Posted on May 22nd, 2008 by hunwut
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by: Jack Duran
The latest shot heard round the gaming world was in April: the U.S. District Court, Southern District of California’s ruling in Rincon Band v. Schwarzenegger, et al., a formerly obscure lawsuit pitting a small California gaming tribe against the largess of the state of California, concerning the state’s tribal-state compacting process, of which [...]

Posted on May 16th, 2008 by hunwut
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