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Red Clay Casino sparks range of opinions
Emotional comments filled the room at last week’s City Council meeting as community members expressed concern over the Kialegee Tribe’s Red Clay Casino being constructed at Florence Street and Olive Avenue in Broken Arrow near the Creek Turnpike.  Buffalo Casino5/20/2013
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Casino fight not over yet, group says
(New York) -- In the latest round of a heavyweight legal fight that has dragged on for more than seven years and three federal lawsuits, a group opposing the operation...
5/13/2013
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Appeal anticipated in Buffalo casino suit
(New York) -- The Seneca Nation of Indians hailed a decision issued by a ranking federal court judge that affirms their right to operate the Seneca Buffalo Creek Casino.
5/12/2013
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Brown’s latest spending proposal reflects good fiscal management
(New York) -- In the current shaky economic environment, City of Buffalo officials have worked for years to maintain services without raising taxes that would give...
5/10/2013
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Judge dismisses suit trying to block Seneca casino in Buffalo
(New York) -- The Seneca Nation’s plans for a bigger, more elaborate casino in downtown Buffalo got the legal go-ahead today when a federal judge dismissed the...
3/17/2013
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Seneca Buffalo Creek Casino is Now Hiring
(New York) -- Seneca Buffalo Creek Casino held a Career Fair in downtown Buffalo Saturday. Representatives of Seneca Casinos are looking to fill hundreds of positions...
3/5/2013
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Construction Watch: Seneca Buffalo Creek Casino
(New York) -- Construction of the new Seneca Buffalo Creek Casino is moving rapidly towards a November completion date. Crews have nearly finished work on the site's...
2/10/2013
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Letter: Buffalo creek casino is a drain on downtown
(New York) -- Opponents to casino gambling in downtown Buffalo gathered at the Pierce-Arrow Transportation Museum on Jan. 31 to hear an update on the third lawsuit...
2/1/2013
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Chicken coops, not casino, raise money for city
(New York) -- Buffalo’s city treasury expects to collect more money this year in license fees for chicken coops than from the Seneca Nation for operation of the...
1/22/2013
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Senecas agree to comprehensive street improvements
(New York) -- The Seneca Gaming Corp. has agreed to make street and sidewalk improvements around the Seneca Buffalo Creek Casino, and the Common Council on Tuesday...
1/16/2013
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Buffalo Common Council seeks extensive street work from Senecas
(New York) -- The Seneca Gaming Corp. has offered to repave city streets around the Seneca Buffalo Creek Casino, but Common Council members said this week that they...
1/4/2013
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Casino a ‘piece of the puzzle’ for downtown development
(New York) -- By itself, the fall opening of the $130 million Seneca Buffalo Creek Casino will be a monumental development. But add it to the wave of projects under way...
12/31/2012
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Looking forward to the New Year [3rd Item]
(New York) -- Downtown casino: A six-year legal battle over the fate of the Seneca Nation’s downtown casino could be decided once and for all this year.
12/19/2012
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Casino Construction Tops Off
(New York) -- Local construction workers set the final steel beam into place for the new Seneca Buffalo Creek Casino yesterday.
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Senecas 'top off' Buffalo Creek Casino
(New York) -- The permanent Buffalo Creek Casino continues taking shape near the Inner Harbor in downtown Buffalo. A few dozen invited guests and Seneca leaders were on...
12/11/2012
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Seneca Buffalo Creek’s marketing efforts not enough for LoCurto
(New York) -- A new report from the Seneca Gaming Corp. on efforts to market its Buffalo casino through such things as billboards on the Niagara Thruway and a banner on...
9/26/2012
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Buffalo, NY, official: Rescind Seneca casino deal
(New York) -- A Buffalo, N.Y. lawmaker is seeking support for a resolution to rescind a contract with the Seneca Indian Nation that allows it to operate a casino in the...
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Casino opponents fight for city to end contract with Senecas
(New York) -- Casino opponents appeared at City Hall Tuesday afternoon encouraging lawmakers to support the end to an agreement with the Seneca Nation for its downtown...
9/25/2012
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Anti-casino group steps up fight over Buffalo site
(New York) -- The battle over the controversial Buffalo Seneca Creek Casino show’s no signs of letting up as members of the anti-casino coalition held a news...
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Buffalo mayor thinks move to cut off services to casino is premature
(New York) -- Mayor Byron W. Brown refrained from criticizing the Seneca Nation of Indians today, saying he hopes a downtown casino is successful and that any move to...
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Buffalo official: Rescind Seneca casino agreement
(New York) -- A city lawmaker in Buffalo says the city should rescind a contract with the Seneca Indian Nation that allows it to operate a casino in Buffalo.
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New Battle Over Buffalo Creek Casino
(New York) -- Could yet another huge project in Buffalo be stalled? It looks that way now that some Buffalo Common council members are making claims that the Seneca...
9/24/2012
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BLOG: Council Resolution Could Doom Downtown Casino
(New York) -- This weekend I was alerted by Joel Rose, Chair of Citizens Against Casino Gambling in Erie County (CACGEC), to a resolution that will be submitted this...
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Buffalo councilman seeks to halt Seneca casino
(New York) -- A Buffalo lawmaker has submitted a resolution that calls to halt construction of the Seneca Nation of Indians' multi-million dollar downtown casino and...
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Buffalo councilmember wants Seneca casino stopped
(New York) -- A proposed resolution by Buffalo Common Council member Michael LoCurto to have work stopped on the Seneca Buffalo Creek Casino — and ultimately...
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Downtown Casino in Jeopardy?
(New York) -- If one lawmaker gets his way, construction on the project will stop, and that's not all. A resolution being submitted this week would not only halt...
9/23/2012
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Council Resolution Could Doom Downtown Casino
(New York) -- This weekend I was alerted by Joel Rose, Chair of Citizens Against Casino Gambling in Erie County (CACGEC), to a resolution that will be submitted this...
8/7/2012
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Dump Trucks Don't Impress Casino Opponents
(New York) -- Counsel for the Citizens Against Casino Gambling in Erie County issued a stern reminder yesterday in a letter to the attorney representing the Seneca...
8/5/2012
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Construction Watch: Seneca Buffalo Creek Casino
(New York) -- Love it or hate it, the new Seneca Buffalo Creek Casino is coming. Officials from Seneca Gaming Corporation gathered to officially kicked-off work on the $...
8/4/2012
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Work begins on tribe's new $130M Buffalo casino
(New York) -- Construction has begun on the Seneca Indian Nation's new casino in downtown Buffalo. Local media outlets report that Seneca officials have broken...
8/1/2012
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Construction of redesigned downtown casino kicks off
(New York) -- Construction has started on a $130 million redesign of the Seneca Buffalo Creek Casino that will replace the temporary blue metal building the gambling...
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Construction On New Casino Gets Underway In Downtown Buffalo
(New York) -- Construction on a multi-million dollar project will get underway in downtown Buffalo. The Senecas will make it official in a groundbreaking which will be...
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Construction underway at Senecas' Buffalo casino
(New York) -- The Seneca Indian Nation has resumed construction of a permanent casino in Buffalo after significantly scaling back plans because of the economy.
7/31/2012
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Work to begin on tribe's new $130M Buffalo casino
(New York) -- Construction is set to begin on the Seneca Indian Nation's new casino in downtown Buffalo. Local media outlets report that Seneca officials plan to...
6/14/2012
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GUEST VIEW: Tackling the big issues in the city
(New York) -- For the past five months I’ve had the privilege of serving on the city council and representing you, the residents of Niagara Falls. And so I would...
6/5/2012
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Seneca Nation awards waterfront grants in NY
(New York) -- The Seneca Indian Nation says it will spend a million dollars to help fund 15 landscaping, lighting and other public and private improvement projects near...
6/2/2012
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Buffalo firefighter busted
(New York) -- A Buffalo firefighter was arrested early Friday morning after a vulgarity laden and brawling encounter with Falls cops, first at Seneca Niagara Casino, and...
4/16/2012
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Seneca Gaming plans job fair
(New York) -- With more than 70 full- and part-time jobs available, the Seneca Niagara Casino & Hotel has set its sixth annual job fair. The job fair is set for 11 a...
4/15/2012
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Editorial: Risky casino proposal
(New York) -- The Seneca Nation of Indians at one time planned to build a gambling palace in Buffalo. By comparison, its newest design is more like a gambling cabin.
4/10/2012
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Casino Suit: Dianne Bennett of Citizens for a Better Buffalo Provides an Update
(New York) -- In late March, the Seneca Nation of Indians and Seneca Gaming Corp. unveiled a re-designed $130 million Seneca Buffalo Creek Casino on the Nation's 9.5...
3/28/2012
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BLOG: Drop the 'Citizens for a Better Buffalo' jive, please
(New York) -- Attention Citizens for a Better Buffalo: If you want to be moral crusaders against gambling casinos in downtown Buffalo, that’s fine.
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Seneca Nation Unveils Re-Designed $130 Million Buffalo Creek Casino
(New York) -- The Seneca Nation of Indians has announced plans to move ahead with a re-designed $130 million casino in Buffalo’s waterfront district after a three-...
3/27/2012
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Buffalo Creek Casino Scaled Back
(New York) -- Construction has begun anew on the Buffalo Creek Casino, which the Seneca Nation of Indians says it will now have completed by the summer of 2013, after...
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DESIGN: The Senecas’ Buffalo Creek Casino Re-Design
(New York) -- I hope to move my way up from “surface parking” to “valet parking”, and someday aim to join the “chairman parking”...
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Disappointing, Revised Casino Plans Unveiled
(New York) -- The Seneca Nation unveiled a new design for the Buffalo Creek casino complex on their nine-acre site in the Cobblestone District. It's a much smaller...
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Plans for upgraded downtown Seneca casino released
(New York) -- The Seneca Nation of Indians today unveiled the long-awaited project to succeed a grander casino once slated for downtown Buffalo — this time a $130...
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Seneca Nation Unveils Buffalo Creek Casino Design
(New York) -- The Seneca Nation of Indians and Seneca Gaming Corp. on Tuesday unveiled a re-designed $130 million Seneca Buffalo Creek Casino on the Nation’s 9.5...
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Seneca Nation Unveils New Buffalo Creek Casino Design
(New York) -- The Seneca Nation Tuesday unveiled a revised design for the Buffalo Creek Casino. The $130 million casino design is expected to integrate with city's...
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Seneca Nation unveils revised NY casino plan
(New York) -- The Seneca Indian Nation announced plans Tuesday to resume construction of a permanent casino in Buffalo, more than three years after suspending the...
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Senecas to build $130 million casino (Updated)
(New York) -- The Seneca Indian Nation announced plans Tuesday to resume construction of a permanent casino in Buffalo, more than three years after suspending the...
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State, citizen group defend amicus brief request regarding Red Clay Casino
(Oklahoma) -- The state of Oklahoma and Broken Arrow Citizens Against Neighborhood Gaming LLC submitted federal court filings in Tulsa Monday in defense of the citizen...
3/26/2012
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Seneca Nation to unveil revised NY casino plan
(New York) -- The Seneca Indian Nation is unveiling plans for a scaled-back version of the casino it plans in Buffalo. The western New York tribe had envisioned a $330...
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Senecas to unveil casino plans
(New York) -- Tuesday we'll be getting a better picture of what the Seneca's have planned for downtown Buffalo. At 10 A. M., the Seneca Gaming Corporation will...
3/14/2012
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Judge tosses one lawsuit against Buffalo casino
(New York) -- A U.S. District Court has ended one lawsuit seeking to stop a casino in downtown Buffalo. The lawsuit was filed by Daniel Warren six years to block the...
3/13/2012
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Court dismisses suit aimed at blocking casino
(New York) -- A six-year-old lawsuit, filed as an attempt to block the development and operation of Seneca Buffalo Creek Casino was dismissed by U.S. District Court...
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Lawsuit against Buffalo Creek dismissed
(New York) -- One of the impediments to the Buffalo Creek Casino in downtown Buffalo has been dismissed. Two lawsuits were filed against the casino, one directly against...
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Seneca Nation Succeeds in a Buffalo Creek Case
(New York) -- U.S. District Court Judge William M. Skretny on Tuesday dismissed a lawsuit filed in 2006 aimed at blocking the Seneca Buffalo Creek Casino.
2/10/2012
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Anti-casino forces undaunted
(New York) -- Though the Seneca Nation of Indians is accustomed to being the one dealing the cards, leaders of the anti-casino movement say it is the Senecas themselves...
1/7/2012
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Casino opponents renew conflict-of-interest complaints against lawyer
(New York) -- Casino opponents are reviving allegations that a personal relationship between a high-ranking government lawyer and a lawyer for the firm that once...
1/4/2012
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Casino Battle Royale: Citizens Group Calls for Further Inquiry into Alleged Conflict of Interest
(New York) -- On December 30, the citizens group challenging the Seneca Buffalo Casino filed papers in federal court calling for further scrutiny into the possible...
1/3/2012
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Timeline taking shape
(Oklahoma) -- New information has come to light Tuesday with regard to the Red Clay Casino. This morning, Tara Thompson, Broken Arrow Public School District public...
12/28/2011
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Red Clay Casino sparks range of opinions
(Oklahoma) -- Emotional comments filled the room at last week’s City Council meeting as community members expressed concern over the Kialegee Tribe’s Red...
12/27/2011
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Oklahoma tribe defends casino plan, says it has no other viable economic development options
(Oklahoma) -- The leader of the Kialegee Tribal Town has responded to an Oklahoma congressman's concern about a proposal to build a casino in Broken Arrow by saying...
8/31/2011
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Judge dismisses conflict of interest allegations in casino case
(New York) -- Two months ago, Edith R. Blackwell and Michael Rossetti stood accused of tainting the federal government's approval of a Seneca Nation casino downtown.
6/29/2011
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Seneca Nation lawyer married to Interior Department attorney
(New York) -- Michael Rossetti, a lobbyist for the Seneca Nation of New York, insists there is no wrongdoing between him and an Interior Department attorney.
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Senecas join pro-casino lawyer to fire back at LaFalce
(New York) -- A Washington lawyer accused by Buffalo casino opponents of unethical conduct fired back Tuesday, and the president of the Seneca Nation of Indians joined...
6/28/2011
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Seneca Nation rejects complaints about off-reservation casino
(New York) -- The Seneca Nation says opponents of its off-reservation casino are stirring up baseless "conspiracy theories." The tribe opened the Seneca...
6/23/2011
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Casino suit cites lawyers' impropriety
(New York) -- An "intimate personal relationship" between a high-ranking government lawyer and a Seneca Nation lawyer tainted the federal government's...
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Opponents of Seneca Nation's Buffalo casino claim conflict of interest tainted gov't decision
(New York) -- A citizens group trying to shut down the Seneca Indian Nation's Buffalo casino is raising questions about the U.S. government's decision to allow...
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THE JUDGES OBAMA IGNORES: Will casino money trump law in Buffalo?
(New York) -- It has been more than seven years since the Second Circuit Court of Appeals told a judge in Buffalo that he was correct in deciding that the Seneca Nation...
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OP/ED: Positive moves by Senecas
(New York) -- Anyone who supports the establishment of a permanent gambling casino in downtown Buffalo has to be pleased by the announcement that the Seneca Nation of...
6/9/2011
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Senecas seek Buffalo casino proposals
(New York) -- In a sign that it may be moving forward with the construction of its permanent downtown Buffalo casino, the Seneca Gaming Corp. has issued an RFP for...
6/5/2011
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Senecas Set Up $1M Buffalo Creek Development Fund, Enhance City Neighborhoods Near Casino
(New York) -- The neighborhoods around Seneca Buffalo Creek Casino in downtown Buffalo, New York will be revitalized with the help of a million dollar fund to upgrade...
2/16/2011
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Report Says Casino Is Bad For Buffalo
(New York) -- The Seneca Gaming Corporation has hinted that they will resume construction on the Buffalo Creek Casino this year. Now, an anti-gambling coalition called...
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Seneca Gaming Responds to Casino Study
(New York) -- Seneca Gaming Corporation, the operators of Seneca Niagara Casino & Hotel, Seneca Allegany Casino & Hotel and Seneca Buffalo Creek Casino, issued...
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