Oneida Says Locals Need Casino Veto

Oneida caring about local residents? Oneida promoting local approval? Or preventing competition? 

October 7, 2012

Tribe Says Locals Need Casino Veto
BY JACOB GERSHMAN

An upstate New York Indian tribe is pressuring Albany to give local governments and communities veto power over new casinos, as Gov. Andrew Cuomo and lawmakers consider expanding the scope of gambling.

The Oneida Indian Nation, which operates a full-scale resort casino in central New York east of Syracuse, is financing a new advocacy group that supports giving local legislative bodies or voters a formal say over locating casinos. The group, New Yorkers for Local Approval of Casinos, is raising money for an advertising and mailing campaign and is trying to draw support from restaurant owners, lawmakers and opponents of ...

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Sen. Chang-Diaz: All City Residents Should Get A Vote On Casinos

Sen. Chang-Diaz: All City Residents Should Get A Vote On Casinos






Sen. Chang-Diaz: All City Residents Should Get A Vote On Casinos
Like it or not. It appears expanded gambling is coming to Massachusetts. As the State Senate heads into its second week of debate on a bill already passed by the House, a few major questions do still remain, however. Chief among them is where the casinos will be, and who will get to determine that. As the bill stands now, only voters in the ward of a city closest in proximity to a proposed casino will get to go to the polls to approve or reject the idea. State Senator Sonia Chang-Diaz joins us to talk about her proposed amendment that would give all the voters of a municipality a say.