EDITORIAL: Indian Country’s journalists, thinkers, are important asset -- Native peoples need Native journalism; writers and thinkers are requested to address the major issues of the day - both for Indian country and for America and the world at large. Journalism in America presently is seriously stilted. It is lacking in vigor to critique America itself...

Editorial: Limits to sovereignty? (CALIFORNIA) -- Few Californians are aware of it, but 107 sovereign nations exist within the borders of the state.

EDITORIAL: After Hensley Who will stand up to gambling tribes? (CALIFORNIA) -- With the abrupt departure of its chairman John Hensley, California's embattled Gambling Control Commission may not survive.

Richmond casino is a bad deal (CALIFORNIA) -- RICHMOND CITY officials should say a firm no to promoters of an Indian- sponsored casino for the town's bayfront.

Editorial: Gambling on defiance How much do tribes owe the state? (CALIFORNIA) -- Want to see why California has an urgent need to revise its Indian gambling compacts? Look no further than the current dispute over how much of their slot machine revenues gambling tribes owe the state and the authority of the Gambling Control Commission to assess and collect those funds.

EDITORIAL: Tribes and states contesting sovereignties (NEW YORK) -- Relations between states and tribes are increasingly tested these days. As economic opportunities based on tribal sovereignties emerge and expand, jurisdictional issues are hotly contested.

Editorial: California's Losing Hand Have negotiators folded before game opens? (CALIFORNIA) -- Any discussion of the future of Indian gambling in California has to start with the past: The gambling compacts Gov. Gray Davis negotiated with Indian tribes in 1999 are among the worst in the nation.

EDITORIAL: Davis: weak hand again (CALIFORNIA) -- Gov. Gray Davis should not count on tribal gambling as a way of raising a large sum of money to help balance the state's massive budget deficit, although he's right that gaming tribes don't pay enough to the state.

Editorial: California is not for sale Not for $1.5 billion or any sum of money (CALIFORNIA) -- The state of California is renegotiating its Indian Gambling Compacts, giving it a small window of time and some leverage to cut a deal that is more equitable than the giveaway Gov. Gray Davis signed two years ago.

Editorial: John Hensley's departure Top gambling regulator steps down (CALIFORNIA) -- John Hensley, the chairman of the California Gambling Control Commission, is stepping down. It's hard to blame him. Hensley and the commission he chairs have struggled to combat abuse and corruption in what is fast becoming the biggest gambling enterprise of any state. For their trouble, they have been humiliated and undercut at every turn.

Match Facts With Facts; Don't Cry Bias (CONNECTICUT) -- Joseph Colebut's Dec. 23 letter to The Day, “Gaming Act helps tribes become self-sufficient,” with his comments on the Time Magazine articles and Mac Turner's stance deserves a bit of examination.

EDITORIAL; Turn the Astrodome into a casino? That would be the final indignity (TEXAS) -- When Houston's Astrodome opened for business as the world's first indoor baseball stadium, its builders proclaimed it the Eighth Wonder of the World.

EDITORIAL: More oversight on casinos (CALIFORNIA) -- Picture a few dozen small gambling casinos on relatively remote tribal land, pulling Native Americans out of poverty.