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Tag: Stadiums

Sports

Taxpayer-funded stadium? Soccer booster won’t say ‘no’

Bob CollinsBob Collins December 18, 2014, 7:30 AM Dec 18, 2014
33

There isn’t a pauper among the groups trying to bring Major League Soccer to Minnesota, but that’s never mattered before when it comes to public handouts for sports facilities. Read more →

Politics · Sports

Given chance, voters embrace tax cash for team owners

Bob CollinsBob Collins May 9, 2014, 8:23 AM May 9, 2014
4

Voters rarely get the opportunity to take a stand on public funding of sports stadiums, so when Cleveland went to the polls this week for continued taxpayer subsidies, it provided a good barometer of public sentiment on the issue. What did we learn? That the vocal opposition to stadiums might be overblown, taxes to support Read more →

Sports

Psst, hey, buddy! Got a Metrodome picture?

Bob CollinsBob Collins February 11, 2014, 12:45 PM Feb 11, 2014
3

The guy leading the VIkings stadium construction has been tweeting cool pictures of the Metrodome destruction. He says the team and the Minnesota Sports Facilities Commission have asked him to stop. Read more →

Sports

The Metrodome as it shouldn’t be remembered

Bob CollinsBob Collins January 31, 2014, 2:56 PM Jan 31, 2014
9

From the day we moved here in 1992, I never developed the hatred of the Metrodome that a lot of area sports fans did. So you’ll have to forgive me if I find that some of the pictures showing up on Twitter today some with a heaping helping of melancholy. Read more →

Five by 8

Why the stadium deal is illegal, sportsmanship from kids, and a gay Marine dies (5×8 – 1/16/14)

Bob CollinsBob Collins January 16, 2014, 7:25 AM Jan 16, 2014
5

Why a Minneapolis man is suing to halt state funding of a new stadium for the Vikings, a White Bear Lake hockey player shows what sportsmanship is, Winona is the stained-glass capital of the USA, a gay Marine dies a Marine, and the return of BatKid. Read more →

Sports

The short shelf life of a baseball stadium

Bob CollinsBob Collins November 11, 2013, 10:45 AM Nov 11, 2013
5

The Braves are abandoning a stadium that is just 17 years old, but yet needs “hundreds of millions of dollars in improvements. Read more →

Public financing for sports stadiums never goes away

Bob CollinsBob Collins August 8, 2013, 1:24 PM Aug 8, 2013
3

There’s a reality in debates over public financing of sports stadiums that rarely gets acknowledged: You never really stop paying for them. Read more →

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