The nice thing about gambling is that it makes a community a ton of money with no downside. Right? Well, not exactly, as a quick search on Google News for “Embezzlement and Gambling” over just the past month reveals: – Oct 27, 2011: A Northern California woman has been sentenced to 4 years in prison [...]
Kara McGuire has an interesting piece in the StarTribune about changes to a 529 matching program the State of Minnesota offers parents and students as an incentive to save for college. Previously, the state offered matches of 10-15% (depending on adjusted gross income) on money saved for college through the state’s 529 college savings program. [...]
Back on October 14th, I did a run through the Standish Neighborhood of South Minneapolis on 32nd and 33rd Avenues along with 44th and 45th Streets. The neighborhood is tucked in between Lake Hiawatha and the LRT with Minnehaha Creek to the south. The church on the corner of 42nd St at 32nd burned down [...]
Seriously. I can see how someone in Wyoming can easily take shots at the cost of living in MN. And, if the Captain was a huge fan of the NFL, he might choose to live within a day’s drive of an NFL stadium (unless he’s the kind of fan who is capable of enjoying the [...]
Carly and I ran the southern sections of Emerson and Dupont Avenues from just north of the Crosstown up to Lake Harriet back on the 15th. This run started at the non-Euclidian corner of Dupont and Emerson to the east of Grass Lake heading north on Dupont. Homes on Dupont were well manicured along the [...]
Carly and I ran through across NE Minneapolis starting behind the Quarry on 19th Ave NE at Stinson back on the 16th. From 19th, we shimmied onto 18 1/2 NE, where we passed the Shirdi Saibaba Prayer Center at Polk. It looks like there are some Gangster Disciples tags on the building. At Central, we [...]
Cincinnati often gets credit for what’s considered to be the worst stadium deal sold to the public by greedy owners in the history of sports. But, it seems like some of the stadiums below could make the short list. Why? Because the public is still paying for stadiums that are no longer being used: On [...]
Based on Zygi Wilf’s current dream of building a publicly subsidized 21,000 car parking lot in Arden Hills, after his previous dream of building a 21,000 car parking lot in Anoka County, it seems like Wilf really wants to use the public’s money to force people to drive somewhere where he can charge for parking [...]
Neil deMause is the author of Field of Schemes, a great book for anyone interested in learning about the history of how millionaire and billionaire professional sports team owners have managed to convince taxpayers that it’s in their best interest to provide hundreds of millions in subsidies to their profitable businesses. He blogs at FieldOfSchemes.com [...]
Captain Capitalism’s commenters are tearing the Vikings’ plan to extract $650,000,000 from the public a new one from a fiscally conservative perspective. Ok, you can make the argument that gov’t subsidizing the cost of a hockey arena or a basketball arena could bring economic benefit to a community say 15k fans downtown at 30-40 games [...]
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