"Legalized gaming is not and never will be America's fiscal savior. As if it's not nauseating enough that states are stampeding to the legalized gambling buffet as a way to feed their own spending frenzies, now U.S. Senate Majority Leader...

"The staff of Nevada Senior Senator Harry Reid, the Senate Majority leader, is reported to be circulating an Internet poker (I-poker) bill that will permit licensed casino gaming facilities and horse race tracks licensed in the United States, Class III...

The Stockbridge Munsee Band of Mohican Indians of Wisconsin has discussed its off-reservation casino with Interior Department officials, Chief Kimberly Vele said. The meeting took place in Washington, D.C. Vele said she hopes to hear back from the department soon...

Indian Country Today interviewed David Hayes, the deputy secretary at the Interior Department, about a controversial anti-gaming proposal being pushed on Capitol Hill. Hayes confirms that Interior provided "drafting services" to Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-California), who wants to restrict off-reservation...

"The Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians is set to open its new Bok Homa casino on Dec. 20 near Sandersville in Jones County. The controversial casino - dubbed by vocal opponent Gov. Haley Barbour as a "slot parlor" - will...

"Sens. Feinstein and Harry Reid, D-Nev., have been actively intimidating Department of Interior staff to stall tribal applications regardless of the law. Unable to force the administration to reject legitimate tribal claims, the senators now are trying to change IGRA...