March 3rd, 2010 by admin
A lack of employment and labor relations laws on Indian reservations has made tribes too vulnerable to exploitation by unions and leaves too many gaps for federal agencies to fill, according to a column written by Kaighn Smith Jr., a partner at the law firm Drummond, Woodsum, and MacMahon, and published in Indian Country Today [...]
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January 9th, 2010 by admin
SHORTER, Ala. (AP) – Alabama casinos are making a $500 million bet that luxury hotels, celebrity restaurants and big-name entertainment will give southbound tourists an alternative to Mississippi’s Gulf Coast gambling destinations. Tourists headed through Alabama to the Gulf can now stop at top-line restaurants opened by country singers John Anderson and Lorrie Morgan, catch [...]
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December 24th, 2009 by admin
MASHANTUCKET, Conn. (AP) – The Indian tribes that run casinos in southeastern Connecticut say revenue from slot machines dropped again in November. The Mashantucket Pequot tribe, which runs Foxwoods Resort Casino and MGM Grand at Foxwoods, reported Tuesday that slot revenue for November totaled $53.7 million. That was down 1.4 percent from November 2008 and [...]
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