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Objective: To determine the effect of municipal smoke-free laws in Kentucky on gross and/or net revenues from charitable gaming activities. Between January 2000 and June 2007, 13 Kentucky communities implemented smoke-free legislation; only three specifically exempted charitable gaming facilities and compliance in several communities was not consistent. Kentucky is a tobacco-growing state that has the highest smoking rate in the United States. Design: A fixed-effects time series design to estimate the impact of municipal smoke-free laws on charitable gaming. Setting: 13 Kentucky counties that implemented smoke-free laws during the study period of January 2000 through June 2007. Subjects: All charitable gaming facilities in 13 counties in which a smoke-free ordinance was enacted during the study period. Main outcome measures: Gross and net revenues from charitable gaming activities in each county for each quarter of the study period, obtained from the Kentucky Department of Charitable Gaming. Results: When controlling for economic variables, county-specific effects and time trends using a robust statistical framework, there was no significant relation between smoke-free laws and charitable gaming revenues. Municipal smoke-free legislation had no effect on charitable gaming revenues. Conclusions: No significant harm to charitable gaming revenues was associated with the smoke-free legislation during the 7.5-year study period, despite the fact that Kentucky is a tobacco-producing state with higher-than-average smoking rates.

[...] the Ninth Circuit noted that the question of whether the Nooksack casino was on Indian lands was not at issue because only states and the NIGC have the power to initiate proceedings against Indian gaming facilities to question whether a casino is being constructed or operated on Indian land. [...] though it was not controlling on the case before it, the court noted that the NIGC promulgated regulations in 2008 that could require an Indian tribe to include \"Indian lands\" documentation with its application for gaming.

I am a Capricorn, through and through. I was born on January 9, the day, according toThe Birthday Book, of ambition. For those not astrologically inclined, what that means is that I am a goat, walking up a hill slowly. Always up, and always slowly. And if someone comes along in, say, a Mustang convertible with a cooler full of beer and reggae music playing, and yells out, “Hey, goat, do you want a ride up the hill?” the goat will say, not unkindly, “No, thank you, I prefer going up this hill one slow, slow step at a

US government officials got the power they claimed would enable them to fight the Mafia conspiracy in the Organized Crime Control Act of 1970. Organized crime control provisions now included: special grand juries; wider witness immunity provisions for compelling or persuading reluctant witnesses; witness protection measures; extended sentences for persons convicted in organized crime cases; and the use of wiretapping and eavesdropping evidence in federal cases. One of the most significant parts of the package was the Racketeering Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, or RICO, which made it illegal to acquire, operate or receive income from an “enterprise” through a

Lynn Malerba (Mohegan) is the eighteenth chief of the Mohegan Tribe and the tribe’s first female chief in almost three hundred years. The Mohegan Tribe is a sovereign, federally recognized Indian nation with its own constitution and government. Chief Malerba is one of seven children born to her mother, Loretta Fielding Roberdge. She has spent much of her life in the land around Mohegan Hill—the small district of the town of Montville—that has been the historical center of the tribe and is home to the Mohegan Church. She came to the position of chief from a long history

Richard Velky (Schaghticoke) is chief of the Schaghticoke Tribal Nation (STN), based in Kent, Connecticut. During the interview he discussed the tribe’s legal battle in response to the Bureau of Indian Affairs’ reversal of the tribe’s federal acknowledgment following the intervention of state officials. The STN has approximately three hundred members and was historically constituted by people from the Mahican, Potatuck, Tunxis, and Podunk tribes who joined together due to the encroachment of white settlers on their ancestral lands. The STN has been continuously recognized from historic times by both the Colony and State of Connecticut. In 1736 the General

Jessica Cattelino offered an interview about her new book,High Stakes: Florida Seminole Gaming and Sovereignty(2008), a stellar work that documents how economic strength through casino development also enabled renewed political self-governance for the tribe that has transformed decades of U.S. federal control. As her research shows, this dramatic shift from poverty to relative economic security has created substantial benefits for tribal citizens, including employment, universal health insurance, and social services. At the same time, this growth has brought new dilemmas to reservation communities and prompted outside accusations that Seminoles are sacrificing their culture by embracing capitalism. Cattelino’s book

As we near the end of the second decade of the twenty-first century, I am convinced that it is time to formulate a new framework for Indian policy that looks to the future. This twenty-first-century framework should build upon the visionary ideas formulated by past tribal leaders, particularly those from the Northwest who successfully fought to overcome the termination of tribal rights in the 1950s. I believe that they followed a philosophical commitment to unity among themselves, and that this gave them the self-confidence and power to persuade a succession of U.S. presidents, beginning with John F. Kennedy, to bring

Due to the federal trust status of the Indian reservation land base, private sector economic activities are extremely limited and constrained. Because these lands and natural resources—such as timber, minerals, and water rights—are trust property in which the legal title remains with the federal government, they cannot be used as collateral for bank loans and other credit arrangements. BIA officials, who are assigned the duties of overseeing the use of trust properties, are authorized to agree that the “use rights” that go with a government-approved lease agreement can be legally assigned to a third party. If an Indian

In April 1873, U.S. Secretary of War William Belknap stopped in San Antonio, Texas, on his inspection tour of the army’s military posts on the Texas frontier. The former mayor of the city, German immigrant, engineer, and architect Wilhelm Thielepape, joined with other local German and Republican leaders in welcoming Belknap and his entourage. They had arranged a torchlight parade to the city’s main outdoor recreational area, San Pedro Springs, which was run by Swiss landscape architect John Duerler. Unfortunately, gusty winds kept blowing out the torches. Following the parade, the assembled company repaired to the Menger Hotel next to