More on the Pokagon Casino Expansion

The Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians is currently operating one casino in southwestern Michigan and now has Michigan’s permission to build two more casinos.

Gov. Jennifer Granholm’s office announced the deal Monday — a deal to rewrite the tribe’s gaming compact with the state in response to the tribe’s reaction to the proliferation of Michigan’s Club Keno game since 2003.

The tribe — along with the Manistee-based Little River Band of Ottawa Indians and the Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians — originally signed gaming compacts, or agreements, with the state in 1998. Under the terms of those compacts, the tribes agreed to operate only one casino each and pay the state 8 percent of their slot machine profits as revenue sharing payments.

For the complete story, please see Kevin Braciszeski,Pokagon tribe OK'd for two more casinos
, Ludington Daily News, October 21, 2008.