NPR's Sacramento Bureau Chief says Barstow Casino deal on death watch

Previously posted by blogger John Myers @ KQED – Capital Notes:

08.21.06
Gaming Pact Advances, Wage Deal Struck

…One tribe's victory is hard to notice without also mentioning another tribe's problems... just outside the Capitol, members of the Los Coyotes Band of Mission Indians are continuing to protest the legislative blockade created against their gaming deal with the state. Los Coyotes, one of two tribes looking to set up casinos in Barstow, has seen their compact languish a slow death, after criticisms that the casinos would be too far from native lands-- and an example of what critics call "reservation shopping..." (Full Post)