California Tribal Business Alliance Commends Gubernatorial Candidates for Positions on Off-Reservation Gaming (CA – CTBA Press Release)
Business Wire (August 10, 2010) The California Tribal Business Alliance (CTBA) today commended California gubernatorial candidates Jerry Brown and Meg Whitman for their positions opposing off-reservation gaming in California. Both candidates, as recently as an August 8 Sacramento Bee article, clarified their positions on the proliferation of off-reservation casino proposals in California, recognizing the need to contain gaming to a tribe’s historic reservation lands. This is consistent with the position of the vast majority of gaming- and non-gaming tribes in California, including tribes represented by the CTBA.

Tribal Casino Money Added To Budget Plan (CA – Budget Battle – Casino Money)
Press Enterprise (August 9, 2010) The Legislature's budget-writing panel has added $30 million in tribal casino-mitigation funding to its proposed budget. The budget conference committee approved the money on a bipartisan vote during a late-night session last week.
Inland agencies would be in line to receive the biggest share of any allocation. Past grants have paid for police cars, traffic lights and other expenses meant to ease the burdens of the region's tribal casinos.
 
Temecula Needs To Honor Agreement (CA – Pechanga Payment to Temecula)
North County Times (August 10, 2010) Tuesday night, the Temecula City Council can decide to continue down a litigious path of conflict and dissipate what remains of any good will between Pechanga and the city. Or, it can honor both the letter and spirit of the Intergovernmental Agreement we reached earlier in the year so we can conclude negotiations with the county of Riverside to complete the agreement
 
Enterprise Rancheria Casino Proponents Say Casino Is Close To Reality (CA – Casino in Yuba County)
Appeal Democrat (August 9, 2010) The federal government has released the environmental impact statement  for a proposed casino and hotel in south Yuba County, with the American Indian tribe backing the project believing it's that much closer to reality. A record of decision on the Enterprise Rancheria project by the federal Bureau of Indian Affairs, a division of the federal Department of the Interior, will come no sooner than Sept. 7, a month after the EIS was released for public scrutiny.

Statement of Tribal Chairman Mark Macarro in Response to City’s Threat of Litigation over Intergovernmental Agreement (CA – Pechanga Payment to Temecula)
Press Release (August 9, 2010) The City’s threat of litigation is absurd. The agreement absolutely requires the tribe and the county to first reach a deal. “The Intergovernmental Agreements between Pechanga, the City, and the County were always to be interdependent. A primary reason for this interdependence is that the County of Riverside – not the City of Temecula – provides law enforcement services to the reservation, yet under the city agreement Temecula will receive all of the funding for law enforcement and cover the County’s law enforcement costs.

Researchers Receive $1 Million To Improve Health In Native Communities (CA – UC Davis Receives Money for Research)
Native American Times (August 9, 2010) UC Davis School of Medicine researchers will train Native American communities in Northern California to develop and implement culturally appropriate interventions to improve their health by decreasing obesity and type-2 diabetes, through a $1 million research grant from the National Institute of Diabetes and Kidney Diseases of the National Institutes of Health.

Incredible Technologies (CA/US – Gaming Innovations – Barona Casino)
Gaming Today (August 10, 2010) "Magic Touch has passed the test — it’s engaging players with its innovation and most importantly, it’s earning," said Elaine Hodgson, IT’s president and CEO. "Whether in amusement games or casinos, this is what our company is driven to do and now we’re ready to prove ourselves on casino floors across the country." One of those casino floors is at the Barona Resort & Casino in San Diego, which became the first U.S. casino to launch Magic Touch games.

California’s Congressman, John Campbell Joins Barney Frank (US – Online Gaming Legislation)
Casino Scam Report (August 9, 2010) John Campbell, California’s 48th districts Congressman has been added as a co-sponsor to Barney Franks H.R.2267, the Internet Gambling Regulation, Consumer Protection and Enforcement Act, giving more momentum and hope to gamblers across the US that legalization of online gaming in the US may not be far off. On July 28th, Campbell signed on which is the same day that the bill successfully passed through the House Finance Committee on its way to the House of Energy and Commerce and the House Judiciary Committee.
 
Native Americans Can't Always Cash In On Casinos (US – Tribal Casinos)
Guardian (August 9, 2010) Contrary to what many Americans believe, most Native people are living in desperate conditions. Despite being given "consent" to operate casinos on their own sovereign lands, the vast majority of tribes live in a poverty that many Americans would never dream existed in their own back yards. High-stakes gambling is only allowed in specific and rather infamous locations such as Las Vegas and Atlantic City where wealth is ubiquitous so, naturally, many think tribes are rich because they've been given "permission" to operate casinos. Yes? Well, no.

President Signs Tribal Law and Order Act; Local Tribal Law Enforcement Agencies Weigh In (US – Tribal Law and Order Act)
Lake County News (August 9, 2010) A May night in 1994, a young woman living on the Rosebud Indian Reservation in South Dakota was brutally attacked, beaten and raped. “If the Tribal Law and Order Act had existed 16 years ago, my story would be very different,” Lisa Marie Iyotte, a member of the Rosebud Sioux Tribe of South Dakota, explained at a White House ceremony that marked the act's passage into law on July 29. Today, Iyotte is an advocate for victims of domestic violence and rape. Dressed in traditional native garb bedecked with elk teeth, Iyotte – with President Barack Obama standing by her side – struggled to recount her attack, explaining that she received medical attention at the Indian Health Service.

Glendale Ready For Legal Action Against Casino (AZ – Tohono O’odham Nation)
AZ Capitol Times (August 10, 2010) The city is preparing to mount a legal challenge to a federal decision to turn land near the Cardinal’s stadium into the state’s largest tribal-run casino. Glendale leaders have routinely opposed the Tohono O’odham Nation casino because of the cost of providing water and sewer service and a lack of control over sovereign tribal land that was part of the city’s planning area.

Alabama’s Largest Casino Closed Temporarily Pending Court Fight (AL – Casino Dispute)
Birmingham Crime Examiner (August 9, 2010) The Victoryland casino in Macon County will be closed today but only temporarily, according to Milton McGregor, president and CEO of the Jefferson County Racing Association and the Macon County Greyhound Park, in Shorter, Alabama which is better known as Victoryland for it’s electronic bingo casino of some 600 electronic machines.