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Hard Rock raises you another bar - 2004-02-08
The Hard Rock Hotel & Casino is officially ready to start construction Tuesday in the first groundbreaking formal procedure for a new Coast casino resort since 1996.

The Hard Rock, which will launch for the month of September 2005, probably won't alter the Coast casino market overnight, like its soon-to-be next door neighbor Beau Rivage managed.
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Indian welfare systems can look forward state budget reductions - 2004-02-08
Local American Indian tribes could view the end of a new experiment in controlling their own welfare programs because of deductions in spending contained in the governor's proposed budget.

California is struggling with state budget deficits that generated a general fund debt of $9 billion by Dec. 31. In addition to proposing spending slowdowns or cuts in a host of government programs, the governor has requested that gambling tribes pay $500 million from casino profits to the state coffers.
Read the full story at at Alameda Times-Star