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Dozens of organizations, hundreds of publications, thousands of studies, and millions of hours of research exist describing the detriments of legalized gambling.  The sample below is by no means complete, but will provide you with further contact information, websites, and critical materials relative to being informed on the issue.  Information below is generally in alphabetical order, summarized from the web page, and published within the last ten years.  If you have further questions, or seek additional information, please contact KCALG at info@kcalg.org.

Note: The Kenosha News is not readily searchable online, so we are unable to link directly to their articles.

  Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Newspaper - online archive of WI casino articles - invaluable resource, free registration!!

  1/4/2008  The U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs, on the same day new guidelines are announced, rejects 11 applications for off-reservation casinos, including the Lac du Flambeau's six year effort to open a gambling hall in Lafayette County, WI (more than 300 miles from its reservation).  "The Department is concerned that approval of this application would not support the option for tribal members to live on their existing reservation and to have meaningful employment opportunities at the proposed gaming establishment," Assistant Secretary Carl Artman wrote. (Journal Sentinel 1/4/2008)

  1/4/2008  The U.S. Department of the Interior announces new, stricter guidelines for the approval of off-reservation casinos.  The guidelines are particularly concerned with the distance between the tribe's reservation, and the land to be acquired through land to trust.  The greater the distance, the greater the scrutiny.  (The Kenosha proposal is over 200 miles from the Menominee reservation in Keshena.)

Read Assistant Secretary of the Interior Carl Artman's guideline memo to Regional BIA Directors and the Office of Indian Gaming -- click here .

  12/7/2007  A sentencing date in March 2008 is set in federal court for Dennis Troha, former casino developer, who pleaded guilty to breaking campaign contribution laws.  (Journal-Sentinel 12/7/2007)

  9/13/2007  John Erickson, who worked for Troha's trucking company JHT Holdings Inc., and was recently charged with making illegal campaign contributions, agrees to plead guilty to two counts of making illegal campaign contributions.  He also agreed to help the FBI as it continues its investigation. (Journal-Sentinel 9/13/2007)

  7/14/2007  Kenosha businessman Dennis Troha pleads guilty to federal misdemeanor charges that he made illegal campaign donations to the state Democratic Party in 2002 and President Bush in 2004. As part of a plea agreement, he agrees to cooperate with the government in an unspecified ongoing investigation.  (Journal-Sentinel 7/14/2007)

  3/1/2007  Dennis Troha is charged with illegal funneling $100,000 in contributions to through his children to the campaign of Gov. Jim Doyle and other political funds and then lying about it to the FBI. (Journal-Sentinel 3/1/2007)

  2/23/2007  Kenosha businessman Dennis Troha abruptly withdraws from the casino project as the FBI investigates thousands of dollars in campaign donations the family has made to Gov. Jim Doyle.  (Journal-Sentinel 2/23/2007)

  9/24/2005  The BIA releases its Casino Impact Study

  3/29/2005  BIA's Environmental Impact Statement Scoping Report released.  Available on Casino website (scroll down on right to Scoping Report).

  2/2005  The September 2004 and revised February 2005 Intergovernmental Agreement (IGA) with the Menominee Nation relative to the casino development is available on the County Board web site and City Council web site.

  5/17/2004  The Menominee Nation launches the Kenosha Casino website.

  1/13/1999  The Kenosha Coalition Against Legalized Gambling is formed to defeat a 1998 casino proposal.  We may take a beating . . . but Kenosha still does not have a casino!!!!

5/13/04  Wisconsin Supreme Court Rules Governor Exceeded Authority in gaming compacts!!!  The court also ruled that some casino style games include craps and roulette are illegal in Wisconsin. Read the decision of the court (155 pages, give it a minute to download!)

No Dane Casino
17 February 2004 a casino referendum was soundly defeated in Dane County 65% to 35%.  This web page, now discontinued, was created by Dane County residents who believed "casino style gambling is a bad idea for our community."

National Coalition Against Legalized Gambling
The dramatic growth of gambling is not the result of a popular movement. Rather, it is driven by the gambling industry with its high priced lobbyists and pie-in-the sky promises. In response, volunteer citizens have formed state and local groups to oppose the spread of gambling. In May 1994 some of these groups from across the United States came together to create the National Coalition Against Legalized Gambling (NCALG), an action oriented, volunteer organization dedicated to stopping the spread of legalized gambling in the United States. NCALG operates as a coalition, which allows it to avoid partisan political or religious issues, but enables it to provide information and tactical assistance to grassroots organizations as they battle local gambling initiatives.

NOcasiNO Maryland
Web site of the Maryland Coalition against gambling expansion.

New Mexico Coalition Against Gambling
Web site of the New Mexico Coalition which is active in lobbying, fighting gambling bills, and taking several gambling acts to state and federal court.

Pennsylvania Family Institute
This organization is active in the fight against gambling and their website has a number of helpful articles.

Citizen Link of Focus on the Family
Several articles and resources on legalized gambling are located on this web site.

Wisconsin Public Policy Institute
The Wisconsin Policy Research Institute is a not-for-profit institute established to study public-policy issues affecting the state of Wisconsin. Its goal is to provide nonpartisan research on key issues affecting Wisconsinites, so that their elected representatives can make informed decisions to improve the quality of life and future of the state.  The Institute's agenda encompasses the following issues: education, welfare and social services, criminal justice, taxes and spending, and economic development. Five substantive reports have been prepared on the matter of casino gambling in the State of Wisconsin and are available as PDF files for free download from WPRI.
 

List of links assembled by the Rhode Island General Assembly

National Gambling Impact Study Commission
Congress authorized The National Gambling Impact Study Commission on 3 June 1996 by Public Law 104-169. The implementing statute for the Commission established it as an independent commission which is not under the auspices of any executive agency, nor specifically controlled by the legislative or judicial branches of government.  The Commission, after three years of study, produced a comprehensive legal and factual study of the social and economic impacts of gambling on (1) federal, state, local, and Native American tribal governments; and (2) communities and social institutions including the individuals, families, and businesses which compose them.

The complete Commission report is available for free download, as well as numerous supporting documents.

Even proponents of gambling recognize the huge impact of gambling upon families and communities.  In an attempt to mitigate negative public reaction to the detriments of gambling, proponents (not unlike the tobacco and alcoholic industries) have attempted to recast the issue of gambling and its detriments.  Gambling becomes "the gaming industry."  Addicts become "problem or pathological gamblers."  And the call is for "treatment" and "responsible gaming" while defining the addiction as a problem that can be addressed by scientific research.  Millions of dollars are poured into this research by the gambling proponents, and its members sit on the boards of the organizations below; however, often the research reveals facts and statistics that should cause any educated person to decry the dangers of any sort of gambling.

National Council on Problem Gambling
The NCPG is national organization of gambling proponents with the mission to increase public awareness of pathological gambling, ensure treatment of problem gamblers and their familes, and to encourage research and programs for prevention and education.  Many states have state chapters of NCPG.  A large portion of its funding, and percentage of board members are active in the gambling industry.

National Center for Responsible Gaming
The NCRG is the research arm of the gambling industry that funds research to identify risk factors for gambling disorders and determine methods of treatment.  One-half of its funding comes from gambling proponents, as do its board members.

Harvard Medical School: Division on Addictions: Institute for Research on Pathological Gambling and Related Disorders
The NCRG helps to sponsor The Institute for Research on Pathological Gambling and Related Disorders with a mission to alleviate the individual, social, medical and economic burdens caused by pathological gambling through support of rigorous scientific research.  It publishes The Wager a free weekly research bulletin on compulsive gambling.

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