{"id":14997,"date":"2014-11-12T13:06:10","date_gmt":"2014-11-12T21:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=14997"},"modified":"2014-11-12T13:06:10","modified_gmt":"2014-11-12T21:06:10","slug":"tribal-roundabout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/tribal-roundabout\/","title":{"rendered":"Tribal roundabout"},"content":{"rendered":"

Escalating the level of desperation in Connecticut<\/strong>, comes a proposal for the state’s two gaming tribes to gang-tackle Massachusetts<\/strong> by collaborating on a third casino of \"Sayers\"<\/a>their own. So far, all of the noise seems to be coming from Mohegan Tribal Gaming Authority<\/strong> CEO Mitchell Etess<\/strong>. He’ll find sympathetic ears<\/a> in Hartford<\/strong> — particularly Deputy House Speaker Peggy Sayers<\/strong> (D) — where “state revenue projections show the Connecticut casinos\u2019 payments to the state will fall to $190.8 million in the 2017-18 fiscal year, just 44 percent of the $430.5 million they totaled at their peak in 2006-07.”<\/p>\n

Etess is proposing something quick and cheap that would be along the axis between the capital city and the Bradley<\/strong> airport, interdicting business that might otherwise go to Springfield<\/strong>. The idea isn’t completely outside the box: Last year, lawmakers considered tribally run VLTs at three state parimutuels. However, a spokesman for newly reelected Gov. Dannell Malloy<\/strong> (D) said,\u00a0\u201cThis is not something we have previously considered.\u201d Default-ridden Foxwoods Resort Casino<\/strong> has its own fish to fry, being in the process of eliminating dealers by the hundreds.<\/p>\n

* Amaya Gaming Group<\/strong> (read: PokerStars<\/strong>) has enlisted another recruit<\/a> — the San Manuel Band of Mission Indians<\/strong> — in its effort to influence the terms under which Internet poker is legalized in California<\/strong>, as is expected to happen next year.<\/p>\n

* Issues involving tribal gaming are rarely linear\u00a0or cut-and-dried, as this Oklahoma<\/strong> court case demonstrates<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Escalating the level of desperation in Connecticut, comes a proposal for the state’s two gaming tribes to gang-tackle Massachusetts by collaborating on a third casino of their own. So far, all of the noise seems to be coming from Mohegan … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[34,14,166,37,112,167,115,178,31,20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14997"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14997"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14999,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14997\/revisions\/14999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}