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2.13.2012: CBS
Debate Heating Up Over Proposed Madera Casino
The debate is once again heating up surrounding construction of a new Native American casino. The North Fork Rancheria of Mono Indians plans to put the casino off of its reservation, west of Highway 99 at Avenue 17. That’s just outside the Madera city limits.

2.12.2012: KFSN, ABC
Public meeting over Madera Co casino plans
People opposed to an Indian casino being built along Highway 99 in Madera County held a meeting Sunday night

2.12.2012: KSEE, NBC
Valley Casino Debated at Town Hall Meeting
A valley Indian tribe is trying to build a casino in Madera County. It was topic of debate at a town hall meeting on Sunday. The North Fork Rancheria is trying to build the casino off Highway 99.

Fresno, KFTV
Estás Viendo: Polémica por construcción de casino en Madera
Los opositores dicen que éste estaría fuera de terrenos indígenas mientras que los que están a favor dicen que el casino crearía cientos de trabajos

1.18.2012: Fresno Bee
EDITORIAL: Hwy. 99 tribal casino plans should be stopped

1.5.2012: Sierra Star
Off-reservation opposition
Guest commentary from Keep Indian Gaming on Indian Lands

12.16.2011: Fresno Bee
U.S. spending bill kicks proposed Madera casino back for another look

12.07.2011: Press Enterprise
Tribal Gaming: Off-reservation casinos opposed, survey shows
Seventy-two percent of voters oppose building off-reservation casinos, according to a new poll commissioned by a group of tribes that oppose plans for two such casinos in the Central Valley.Keep Indian Gaming on Indian Lands, the group that commissioned the survey, includes the Pechanga Band of Luiseño Indians near Temecula.J. Moore Methods Inc. of Sacramento conducted the poll of 800 voters Nov. 14 through Nov. 22. It had a margin of error of plus or minus 3.5 percentage points.

12.07.2011: KCRA
Elected Officials Voice Opposition to Proposed Wheatland CasinoA town hall meeting has held Wednesday night by a community group that opposes a proposed Indian casino.The group is calling the proposal, which has been approved by the U.S. department of Interior, a bad idea for California.”(California) will become Nevada by the sea,” said Cheryl Schmit, the director of Stand-up California, the group that organized the meeting in Wheatland. Schmit feels if the proposal is approved by the state, it will set a dangerous precedent for building casinos anywhere, not just on tribal land.”If you allow tribes to move off the reservation, the other vested gaming interests, they are all going to want to compete fairly,” said Schmit.

12.07.2011: Appeal Democrat
Sides clash over casino project in Yuba County
Emotions running high, about 150 people attended a town hall in Wheatland on Wednesday night to get information, or more probably, confirm how they already felt about the proposed Enterprise Rancheria Indian casino.

11.30.2011: Territorial Dispatch
Townhall series kicks off around California as communities voice opposition to off-reservation casinos

11.23.2011: Hi-Desert Sun
Casino foes hear from experts on opposition
“This community is becoming part of budding national upheaval over off-reservation American-Indian gaming. Right now you’re at the tip of the spear. You’re involved in a much bigger issue than you were first introduced to,” Cheryl Schmit, director of Stand Up For California, told a Joshua Tree Community Association meeting of about 60 people in the community center Saturday.

11.22.2011: Appeal Democrat
Anti-Yuba casino group schedules meeting in Wheatland
A watchdog group lobbying Gov. Jerry Brown not to approve the Enterprise Rancheria Indian casino project in Yuba County is coming to Wheatland next month for a town hall on the topic. Stand Up for California! will host the event Dec. 7 to express its opposition to the casino, which the group has decried as “reservation shopping” for a project far from the sponsoring tribe’s native lands.Keep Indian Gaming on Indian Lands, a group with similar concerns, will also make a presentation at the town hall, which will be less than 10 miles from the proposed casino/hotel near Sleep Train Amphitheater.

11.16.2011: Hi-Desert Star
Feinstein opposes casino
The senior senator from California has sent a letter to the secretary of the interior expressing her opposition to a proposed casino in Joshua Tree.
Dianne Feinstein’s Nov. 10 letter to Ken Salazar states in part, “Placing a casino less than a mile from the (Joshua Tree National) park’s visitor center and park wilderness will forever change the nature of the desert treasure.”

10.20.2011: Marysville Appeal Democrat
Briefs: Yuba-Sutter Farm Bureau still opposes casino
The Yuba-Sutter Farm Bureau has sent a letter to Gov. Jerry Brown stating its members still don’t support an Indian casino in Yuba County. “Breaking up agricultural areas is commonly recognized as creating blight on other farming interests in that same area and eventually erodes the entire agriculture industry,” states the letter, written by past bureau president Matt Conant.

10.19.2011: Fresno Bee
Battle between tribes intensifies over proposed Madera County casino
Eight California tribes — including Madera County’s Picayune Rancheria of the Chukchansi Indians and Fresno County’s Table Mountain Rancheria — are stepping up their fight against two Indian casinos proposed in locations far from established tribal lands.

10.19.2011: Marysville Appeal-Democrat
Tribes opposing Yuba County casino
A group of tribes, including several with casinos near Yuba-Sutter, have written Gov. Jerry Brown a letter opposing the Enterprise Rancheria casino in Yuba County. Specifically, the letter opposes what its authors call “reservation shopping,” or the practice of a tribe looking for lands to build a casino far from where it is based.

2.11.2010: Sierra Times
Farm Bureau opposes casino on Highway 99

9.23.2009: San Diego Union Tribune
Don’t Roll the Dice; Keep Federal Ban on Off-Reservation Casinos

9.17.2009: San Francisco Business Times
Feinstein, Boxer oppose land transfers for Indian casinos

7.29.2009: Wall Street Journal
Hurt by Debt, Casino Firm Station Files for Chapter 11

2.3.2009: New York Times
Station Casinos Seeks Prepackaged Bankruptcy

12.2.2008: Gaming News
Station Casinos suspends 401(K) matches

11.29.2008: Fresno Bee
Valley casino future unsure

10.28.2008: Press Democrat
Rohnert Park casino plan dealt setback by economy