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Photos left to right: Tower of Power at Morongo Casino (Cabazon) Dec. 12;\u00a0The Brian Setzer Orchestra Christmas Rocks Extravaganza Dec. 19 at Pechanga Casino Resort (Temecula); and Melissa Etheridge\u00a0Dec.\u00a011 at Chumash Casino (Santa Ynez)<\/p>\n
It’s likely to be a Blue Christmas for over 1,000 workers who lost their jobs at Chukchansi Gold Resort Casino this fall when a hostile takeover attempt and federal investigation led to the Coarsegold casino’s closure. The vast majority of around 70 Indian owned casinos in California are having a Happy Holiday, however\u00a0with\u00a0 revenue\u00a0likely to exceed\u00a0$7 billion in 2014! Nearly half of California’s 58 counties have Indian casinos that locals see as economic drivers. Although revenue doesn’t go into local coffers, the casinos provide jobs, attract tourists to surrounding\u00a0businesses (restaurants, hotels, shops) and offer entertainment that\u00a0cities &\u00a0towns may not enjoy otherwise. \u00a0This December is a perfect example of the great music and shows you can catch at casinos throughout the state. Read more…<\/a>><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Photos left to right: Tower of Power at Morongo Casino (Cabazon) Dec. 12;\u00a0The Brian Setzer Orchestra Christmas Rocks Extravaganza Dec. 19 at Pechanga Casino Resort (Temecula); and Melissa Etheridge\u00a0Dec.\u00a011 at Chumash Casino (Santa Ynez) It’s likely to be a Blue Christmas for over 1,000 workers who lost their jobs at Chukchansi Gold Resort Casino this […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18511"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18511\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}