Tigua News

Ryan Brassard, who runs the metal/hardcore/punk site Axes to Grind, checked out Friday's Godsmack/Taproot show, the first free concert at the Tiguas' new Socorro Entertainment Center.

"This is going to be offices," Karl Maahs said as he squeezed his husky 6-foot-3 frame through the metal beams bolted into the concrete where an indoor kiddie pool used to be.

As Texas lawmakers cast about for ways to fix the state's broken budget, the prospect of using revenues from legalized casino gambling waits in the wings.

When a mercenary lobbyist with high-level Washington, D.C., connections swindled the Ysleta del Sur Pueblo out of millions of dollars, it wasn't the worst challenge the tribe had faced.

Spring 2001: Tiguas seek state legislation that would authorize casino gaming for themselves and the Alabama Coushatta of East Texas.