The Omaha City Council is poised to voice its opposition on Tuesday to a proposed casino in Carter Lake, joining Nebraska Gov. Heineman and Mayor Fahey in their opposition. Carter Lake's mayor says those in Nebraska need to mind their own business.

Omaha is on the doorstep of Carter Lake and city and state leaders don't want a casino that close. The controversy centers on a non-descript building in Carter Lake. The Ponca tribe of Nebraska bought the land in 1999 to open a health clinic.

Times have changed and the tribe now wants to build a casino there. The National Indian Gaming Commission had said no, but has now given the okay. "It's not Omaha's business what happens in Carter Lake, Iowa,” says Mayor Russ Kramer, who has heard the issues.

The state wonders about the extra infrastructure on Omaha's end it will take to handle a casino and the social costs that follow gambling.

"They talk about the excess impact this proposed casino could have on the social problems in north Omaha," says Mayor Kramer. "For crying out loud, we're 10 minutes away from the casinos in Council Bluffs. I don't know what 10 minutes is gonna make it worse."

In theory, the casino floor could be as large as the land owned by the Ponca tribe, nearly five acres. Any land for parking, hotels and restaurants could be bought later and wouldn't be on the radar of the federal government. There is an empty building across the street that has similar markings to its neighbor.

The Department of Justice is currently investigating Nebraska's challenge of whether a casino can even go there.

“It always seems like they're going to do whatever they want to do and the heck with what Carter Lake's feelings are, but if Carter Lake wants to do something, you'd better come and ask big brother Omaha's permission first and that's a bunch of crap,” says Mayor Kramer. “We don't need that."

Nebraska's attorney general filed a lawsuit against the Department of the Interior and the federal government was supposed to answer that by the end of this week, but Monday the Justice Department asked for an extension. We may not hear a response until July.

The Ponca tribe says it finds many of the arguments hypocritical, especially the one where it changed its mind from a medical center to a casino, and says it's much like Nebraska adopting a lottery even though the constitution at one time prohibited gambling.