Hot news

Dublinbet

Dublinbet

DublinBet.com is an innovative and classy casino and card room. It offers classic online casino game favourites plus some of the best live dealer games on the net for January 2012.

Through the latest webcasting technology you can interact with dealers from the privacy of your home (or office!). The sounds and dealer action is live from the Fitzwilliam Card Club and Casino, in Dublin Ireland. DublinBet's Distance Gaming® is a 'must try even if you're not fussed for live dealer games - try the unique early payout

+ More info...

888

888

Do you find it hard to get to a live casino to play poker? Then simply come to 888poker, the best poker online room in Australia and experience the same thing with no hassle.888 Casino is one of the most famous casinos in cyberspace, thanks to some of the most eye-catching promotions in the industry and an ongoing commitment to innovation. Owned and operated by a subsidiary of 888 Holdings plc, which is listed on the London Stock Exchange, 888 Casino was launched in 1997 and more than 25 million people have played here since.

+ More info...

365 Casino

365 Casino

Enjoy a huge selection of casino games at 365 Casino with monthly bonuses and weekly promotions, Play Blackjack, Roulette, Baccarat, Slots, and Video Poker and win big at 365 casino. 24hrs a day, 365 days a year Safe & secure with excellent Customer Service.

+ More info...

Elegance Casino

Smart Live Casino

The unique thing about Smart Live Casino is its live casino games. It offers live baccarat, live roulette and live blackjack where the player sees the dealer and the action unfold infront of his own eyes. They have a fully array of games as well as sports betting. The site also comes in a variety of languages.

+ More info...

Glendale City Council sending mixed messages about casino

E-mail Print PDF

Three Glendale City Council members recently sent a letter to federal officials that denounces the city’s opposition to a proposed casino near its sports and entertainment district.

Specifically, the three councilmen criticized a letter that City Attorney Michael Bailey sent the U.S. Department of Interior in September to affirm the Glendale’s long-held opposition to the Tohono O’odham Nation’s casino plans.

The Nov. 15 letter to the Interior signed by Councilmen Ian Hugh, Gary Sherwood and Sam Chavira slams Bailey’s memo as “nothing more than a regurgitation of arguments” that have largely been dismissed by the courts. Opponents, primarily two tribes with Valley casinos, “continue to act with reckless abandon in their blind attempts to maintain market share,” the letter says.

A council rift is deepening over whether to continue fighting the five-year legal battle that so far has cost the city about $3.5 million.

As the three councilmen were denouncing the city’s opposition, another flew to Washington, D.C., to lobby against the Tohono O’odham and the mayor sent letters to Glendale residents outlining the harm he believes a casino would cause.

Mayor Jerry Weiers’ mailers were paid for by Keeping the Promise, a group that includes the Gila River Indian Community. Weiers said on Nov. 21 that he didn’t have time to discuss the letters.

The Gila River tribe also paid for Councilman Manny Martinez’s trip last week to meet with Sen. Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., the chair of the Committee on Indian Affairs, and U.S. Senate staff.

The Gila River tribe has fought the Tohono O’odham in the courts and in Congress.

The mixed signals have emanated from City Hall since October, when a majority of council members directed staff to open dialogue with tribal leaders for the first time in years to assess the impact a casino at 95th and Northern avenues could have on city resources.

Martinez said he wanted to send a clear signal: He remains opposed to the casino. Martinez said he, along with the vice mayor of Scottsdale and the Gilbert mayor, told Senate staffers that the casino would create a burden on area taxpayers. He cited a study authored years ago by Elliot D. Pollack & Company that found that a casino would require the city to build a new fire station and beef up police.

Tohono O’odham leaders have said they would cover their own public-safety expenses, which the Pollack study does not take into account.

Hugh said the study is inaccurate.

The Tohono O’odham Nation announced plans to build a West Valley casino in 2009. The southern Arizona-based tribe aims to have the land designated as a reservation as part of a federal settlement to replace tribal land damaged by a federally built dam.

Since declaring opposition shortly after the plan’s announcement, Glendale has lost two lawsuits and backed unsuccessful federal legislation that would have hampered the tribe’s plans. U.S. Rep. Trent Franks, R-Ariz., sponsored a similar bill this year.

Read more http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&fd=R&usg=AFQjCNFYHojyt5R35oj8hPZx1CIkFIe1_g&url=http://www.azcentral.com/community/glendale/articles/20131122council-sending-mixed-messages-about-casino.html

You are here