Spot from Cucking Stool put together a video with excerpts from my presentation at Drinking Liberally at the 331 Club on November 3rd. If you’ve been a regular reader of this blog over the past month, this is a bit of a recap in video form: Building Zygi World! from Steve Timmer on Vimeo. Correction: [...]
Sum Nums offers some numbers on the amount of public financing the Vikings are demanding: It seems like some Vikings fans are under the assumption that what the Vikings organization is demanding is reasonable. It’s not. If they want to spend over a billion dollars to build a stadium they’d use for 240 home games [...]
Is gambling an appropriate revenue source for publicly funding a Vikings stadium? Shouldn’t we first be asking if publicly funding a Vikings stadium is appropriate at all? Fine, let’s talk gambling first: Don David, writing for the Bemidji Pioneer, takes a look at political support for gambling as a revenue source that could be created [...]
Remember when Minneapolis Mayor, RT Rybak held a press conference to show off three Minneapolis Vikings stadium location concepts, while suggesting that a new sales tax imposed on the City of Minneapolis could provide the #wilfare dollars? Do you remember how many of Minneapolis’ City Council Members were standing at his side? None. On October [...]
Back on October 11th, Senate Minority Leader, Tom Bakk (DFL – Cook), talked about the state of a racino and Vikings stadium plan on Capitol Report. I’ve trimmed the episode down to those two topics: What I find most interesting in Bakk’s comments (at 2:45) is that he thinks it’s important to get a Vikings [...]
The number of words being generated on the web regarding the stadium debate is reaching an all-time high. If Zygi Wilf was only able to extract a dollar per word from authors, he may have his profit margins fully subsidized by now. Here are a few of the more interesting things I’ve seen lately: The [...]
She could listen to Sid Hartman or she could listen to her constituents. Guess who’s winning that battle for influence? Consistency Around the State? Sarah Stultz with The Albert Lea Tribune reports on what Reps. Kurt Zellers and Rich Murray have been hearing from constituents while touring the state: Zellers said he appreciates the governor [...]
