This must be a first: A Star Tribune editorial on paying for the proposed stadia draws
no angry List response. Battle fatigue out there?
Steve Brandt
Kingfield
Next door to Lyndale, the home of the Minneapolis Millers
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Is there
an anti-professional sports mentality out there?
I rarely
attend games, though I don't mind that the professional sports brings nine
figure money into the city every year, providing huge tax revenues and
providing employment to thousands in hotels and restaurants
Yeah, uh hu,
a lot of anti-proffessional sports in Minneapolis types, probably half of you
will watch the Super Bowl. You probably are same or similiar group
that opposed the domed stadium, that battle went for ten years too. I
don't know of any harm the present stadium did. They
I remember 25 to 30
years ago when downtown bar owner Joe Duffy -who was some kind of
committee head for the stadium they all had planned out to go about where they
want to build this new one- was on some civic affairs show -predating
Almanac.
Duffy and his
group just assu
Between coughing fits, I did watch the county boys give away the store last
night.
I feel too puny to write much, but the New York Press' Matt Taibbi grouses
about the
proposed Jet's stadium giveaway while tipping his hat to the Twins this week.
Here's the final few lines of his column. . . .
The tooth fairy left Hennepin County $28 million dollars under its pillow!
I have just been reading about how easy it is for Hennepin county to get an
extra $28 million dollars. It is just 3 cents on $20, or $30 on a 20,000
Camry. I mean it might as well be found money. The argument is,
David Tilsen:
It is just 3 cents on $20, or $30 on a 20,000 Camry. I mean it might as
well be found money. The argument is, how stingy can you get. You spill
more than that out of your wallet every day. Let us have our sports
stadium, puulleeee.
Ed Kohler:
That's a good point. If it's such
on 1/29/02 8:52 AM, Steve Brandt at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> This must be a first: A Star Tribune editorial on paying for the proposed
> stadia draws no angry List response. Battle fatigue out there?
>
No, I don't think it's battle fatigue, Steve. Could be that the marvelous
semantics game th
James E Jacobsen wrote:
> Is there an anti-professional sports mentality out there?
> I rarely attend games, though I don't mind that the professional
> sports brings nine figure money into the city every year,
> providing huge tax revenues and providing employment to thousands
> in hotels and r
I agree with people
who don't want funding out of general revenues of the State or additional
sales tax to fund stadiums. I just don't believe that is
necessary.Any stadium should be built, owned and
managed by the Met Sports Commission. In budget process, the Commission should
James E Jacobsen wrote:
> I think there is a lot of con work to get extra money
> going on with this because I know they could just
> work it all out and there wouldn't be significant problem.
Mr. Jacobsen's post seems to be saying: "Trust us with $400-500 million
of your money and we'll have a b
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From: "James E Jacobsen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Walt Cygan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, February 02, 2002 2:37 PM
Subject: Re: [Mpls] stadia
> They said about the current domed stadium that it would have cost
> overruns. It didn't.
The Senate State and Local Government Operations
committee will hear the governor's stadia proposal on
Wednesday, April 14, at 12:30 PM or a half-hour after
session ends, in room 15 of the state capitol. Sen. Steve
Kelley will present the bill. It will be televised, I think.
Anyone wanting to
I was once a Twins fan. Someday, maybe I will be again. I began my falling
out of fandom with the player's strike. Spoiled millionaire players whining
for more money, and shutting down the season was kind of unheroic, and a
turn off to baseball. This followed by threats to move the team, followed b
Ed Kohler wrote:
I'd
expect 99%+ of the anti-stadium crowd to favor a new privately financed
ballpark. They're just not interested in spending public money to support a
private business.
I think it's more than that. As a working person who has never had
oodles of spare money and never will, it
A note on David Tilsen's otherwise astute post:
> When the [county] buys bonds (borrows money) there are other costs. They
are borrowing >353 million dollars for 30 years. That means we will pay $28
million a year for 30 years. >That totals about 840 million dollars. Since
the principle will be on
This stadium thing bite me royally.
Why do we need a new stadium commission for this stadium? What about our
current sport facility commission? Why can't the county own and operate it
themselves instead of this new commission? Seems like were just adding one
more layer of bureaucracy bleeding
Mark Johnson said:
I was talking with a friend that said that RT told the
legislature he would support going the community to
ask for more than $10 million dollars for the stadium.
I told her that RT was against public funding for the
stadium. Was I wrong?
And then Mike Hohmann said:
a friend tol
age-
From: "Sen.Linda Higgins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Apr 12, 2004 11:31 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [Mpls] stadia hearing
The Senate State and Local Government Operations
committee will hear the governor's stadia proposal on
Wednesday, April 14, at 12:30 PM or
Very sorry that my schedule in the past couple weeks has kept me from
monitoring the list...hope to catch up soon...but I did want to clarify some
points raised in an earlier post by Sen. Higgins:
She wrote:
"I was working in my office and watching on the closed-circuit tube, and RT
said that the
While we're at it, I noticed sometime last fall that a development
document for the Nicollet-Lake area included a one-block mini-stadium
among numerous ideas for development in the area. As I recall, it was
either on the same block, or one adjacent to it, as the old Miller
ballpark.
Steve Brandt
I must admit that I am disappointed in the behavior of many of our elected
representatives, at the city, county, and state level. I find this
continued talk of providing funding for a baseball stadium to be irksome
considering that both the city and state are facing a revenue shortfall. I
do not k
We have canceled the stadia hearing scheduled for the
Senate State and Local Government committee tomorrow to
allow members to attend the funeral for Senator
Vickerman's son, who died over the weekend. I'll re-post
when we schedule it again. We're also postponing the
hearing on the University
Steve Brandt wrote:
While we're at it, I noticed sometime last fall that a development
document for the Nicollet-Lake area included a one-block mini-stadium
among numerous ideas for development in the area. As I recall, it was
either on the same block, or one adjacent to it, as the old Miller
ball
At 09:31 AM 2/20/02 -0600, Scott McGerik wrote:
>I must admit that I am disappointed in the behavior of many of our elected
>representatives, at the city, county, and state level. I find this
>continued talk of providing funding for a baseball stadium to be irksome
>considering that both the city
At 11:31 AM 4/12/2004, Sen.Linda Higgins wrote:
The Senate State and Local Government Operations
committee will hear the governor's stadia proposal on
Wednesday, April 14, at 12:30 PM or a half-hour after
session ends, in room 15 of the state capitol. Sen. Steve
Kelley will present the bill. It wil
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