Tribal casinos ante up with economic clout - Sacramento Business Journal:

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Tribes now wield extraordinary economic power that ripplesthrough investing, nonprofit giving and even civic finance. County coffersz are boosted by annualp payments tribes agree to in lieu of The tribes are developing theidrown land, buying up ancestral land, and investing in other developmentsd and industries. Their casinoxs get remodeled or rebuilt every few creating massive project sitesand good-paying construction jobs. In threre years, it is conceivable that thres major casino developments could be under way with a combinefd value of morethan $1.2 billion. Once completed, the casinoxs would hire hundredsmore workers.
In fact, the largesf private employers in Placer and Yolo countiezs are tribeswith casinos. The is the largest employer of anykind -- includinyg government agencies and school district -- in Amador County. And the new casinol in El Dorado County likely will bethe county's largest private employer when it opens in earlyu 2009. California Indian casinos are also intercepting customersw who might have otherwise crossed the statse lineto Reno, South Lake Tahoe or Las Vegas, expertx say.
California's huge and wealthy population has long been a rich vein to tap forNevadaz casinos, but with Indian casinos open or on theirt way along almost every major highway, many Californians are gambling closetr to home. The marketing for , and Jackson Rancheriwa has been so ubiquitous in Northermn California in recent years that its easy to forger many of the tribes were almost invisible and largelg powerlessuntil recently. For some it's been a 22-yearr evolution to wealth, from a bingok parlor and to a Others moved from destitution to millionse of dollars in profits in the firsrt yearof operation.
That big-money success has a tremendous effect onthe tribes, communitiesa near casinos and the Sacramento region. In the followinbg stories, we take a look at how casinos and tribakl business play a role inour , by Michael Shaw , by Kathy Robertson , by Mark Andersonb , by Celia Lamb , by Kelly Johnso n , by Melanie Turner , by Bob Schmidt