I'm originally from Detroit, where a billionaire (Mike Illich of Little Caesar's fame) got millions for a hockey stadium...Yeah, an almost totally white sport in a mostly black city gets big dollar welfare, because Detroit school children really should not expect good schools or housing, should they?
Thank you for reminding me of that Pat.....one would think that bankruptcy would focus and clear the mind of city fathers determined to toss millions on a type of project that serious researchers have shown is highly unlikely to benefit the city economically?????
New Englanders are free-market folks... teams build their own stadiums. Until LA got a privately funded football stadium last year, the Patriots were the only team in the NFL with no public money in their stadium. As I was growing up, the Red Sox lobbied hard for many years for a new stadium. Never happened. Fenway Park, Pahk, whatever is the oldest in the league. Not even any pahking theah.. But old is fashionable again. Massachusetts uses the money saved to fund health care and schools.
As a native Floridian who moved to Las Vegas in 2020 this has been a difficult series. While I'm happy for my neighbors, etc I'm sad about the Panthers. It took 27 years to get back to a Cup final and I will be too old or perhaps not even alive if I have to wait another 27 years.
I'm originally from Detroit, where a billionaire (Mike Illich of Little Caesar's fame) got millions for a hockey stadium...Yeah, an almost totally white sport in a mostly black city gets big dollar welfare, because Detroit school children really should not expect good schools or housing, should they?
The only good thing about that Detroit deal was it led to one of my very favorite headlines: https://www.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/pat-garofalo/2013/07/25/detroit-plans-to-pay-for-new-red-wings-hockey-arena-despite-bankruptcy
Thank you for reminding me of that Pat.....one would think that bankruptcy would focus and clear the mind of city fathers determined to toss millions on a type of project that serious researchers have shown is highly unlikely to benefit the city economically?????
New Englanders are free-market folks... teams build their own stadiums. Until LA got a privately funded football stadium last year, the Patriots were the only team in the NFL with no public money in their stadium. As I was growing up, the Red Sox lobbied hard for many years for a new stadium. Never happened. Fenway Park, Pahk, whatever is the oldest in the league. Not even any pahking theah.. But old is fashionable again. Massachusetts uses the money saved to fund health care and schools.
As a native Floridian who moved to Las Vegas in 2020 this has been a difficult series. While I'm happy for my neighbors, etc I'm sad about the Panthers. It took 27 years to get back to a Cup final and I will be too old or perhaps not even alive if I have to wait another 27 years.