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March 13, 2006
Indian Casinos Raising Concerns
Property rights advocates in New York State are facing a political culture that is fairly deaf to their concerns.
Consider this example reported in Gambling Magazine of the Seneca Nation's bid to build an off-reservation casino:
The lack of an environmental review in Buffalo is by no means the only thing that makes the Senecas' efforts unusual. Light said he believes that in Niagara Falls, New York became the only state to help an Indian tribe assemble land for its casino through eminent domain.
That move has recently become something of a sensation among conservatives fighting such "takings" of private property. On Fox News, "Hannity and Colmes" recently featured the Niagara Falls situation. And the American Conservative Union issued an e-mail alert to members criticizing the state for taking land for the Senecas.
Posted by lumi at March 13, 2006 8:22 AM