Some of the smaller Oklahoma tribes are opposing a state question that would require tribes to share revenues in exchange for more electronic casino machines. State Question 712 is being pushed by the Chickasaw, Cherokee and Choctaw nations, the largest...

"'I think the Indians have overreached with this,' observed Bob Stern, president of the L.A.-based Center for Governmental Studies. They have -- in that they've written themselves a better deal than they could negotiate with the governor and the Legislature....

"Gambling in California is slipping out of control. Big casinos are edging into urban areas, limits on operations are evaporating and the state industry is morphing into the nation's largest. Voters who approved two earlier measures that allowed Indian gambling...