Land trust denied

 

 BREAKING NEWS: Cayugas' Land Trust Is Denied 

Update: or is it only postponed?

In its statement the Interior Department did not articulate as to why federal officials reviewing the application considered it incomplete and added the Cayugas could resubmit the application.

The nation owns more than 1,000 acres in its ancestral homeland in both counties around the north end of Cayuga Lake. The tribe needs the land placed into federal trust to open a gaming facility similar to the Oneida Indians’ Turning Stone Resort Casino in Verona.

Cash-hungry Cuomo: non-Indian casinos OK

Non-Indian, "commercial" casinos will soon join the competition for New York residents' shrinking budgets.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo says his administration is actively investigating whether to bring commercial, non-Indian casinos and related gambling to New York.

By the time the graft has been distributed, New Yorkers can expect a net loss, to be made up with higher taxes. We should have gotten into the casino business in 1950.

Wilbur Clark's Desert Inn

Wilbur Clark opened the fifth hotel on the Las Vegas Strip in 1950.  Here's one night's casino staff posing in 1950.  In 1966 Howard Hughes checked in, decided to stay, and eventually bought the place.  Click the photo for more.