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Tribe Seeks to Build Casino Overlooking San Francisco

The Associated Press is reporting that an indian tribe wants to build a $1.5 billion casino resort on land overlooking San Francisco Bay.

Only problem is, the land is more than 100 miles from its tribal land.

That may not be a problem if the Obama administration loosens the rules on where some of these projects can be built.

Gambling opponents deplore the trend and complain that Indian tribes are trying to game the system to expand their operations and get closer to lucrative big-city markets.

They fear that more gambling will bring more crime and other social ills.

“These are all casinos coming to a highway ramp near you,” said Cheryl Schmit, director of a nonprofit group that opposes Indian gambling.

Tribal spokesperson say, however, that casinos mean jobs for their tribal members.

The vast majority of the hundreds of Indian casinos in the U.S. are on tribal land — often well-removed from big cities — as envisioned under the 1988 federal law that created regulations for the $26 billion Indian gambling industry.

But the law has exceptions, including ones for tribes such as Guidiville that have regained federal recognition in recent decades and are looking to establish a reservation.

Off-reservation casinos already exist in Milwaukee and Spokane, Wash., having been approved in the 1990s.

We’ll keep you posted on what happens in San Francisco, and by extension…other cities near you.