Pat Kessler’s Reality Check segment on 12/7 took on the oft-repeated Vikings talking point that the team is “contributing” the 3rd largest amount toward a stadium in NFL history. Here is how they attempt to mislead the public: They use 2011 dollars for their contribution but not for the teams they compare themselves against. For [...]
Here’s a question I received via email today that I’m interested in some feedback on: Ed, I was curious, since you come off as such a strong stadium opponent, that you did not speak at the hearing yesterday. It was open to the public. Just wondering…. Thanks Good question! (Reminder: Send a quarter to DeRusha.) [...]
The Big 4′s Pat Kessler did a Reality Check segment about the job creation potential from building a new Vikings stadium. He looked at the Vikings’ claim that the project would generation 7,000 jobs. Like most figures put out by the Vikings in their attempt to extract more than $650,000,000 from the public, it’s grossly [...]
Here is what happened this week in San Francisco, where a new stadium plan has been announced for the 49ers move away from Candlestick Park (or whatever they’re calling it these days): The funding deal was spelled out in a development contract that caps two-and-a-half years of closed-door negotiations between city and team leaders and [...]
Carly and I ran a 7 miler from Whittier, through Stevens Square, downtown, and past the Metrodome in the fresh snow on December 4th. We started at Clinton Field Park, next to the 35W sound wall. Church of St. Stephen, the catholic church at at 22nd & Clinton, has a long history of helping the [...]
Carly and Carly’s coworker, Natasha, joined me for a Run Minneapolis around Cedar Lake on November 27th. We started out on the west side of the lake and picked off some residential streets before hitting the lake. Point Beach is at the west side of the lake. A new home is going in near Cedar [...]
With the resignation of “failed burrito barron” and head of the MN GOP, Tony Sutton, the party of bigotry has a chance to rebuild. Some of that rebuilding will involve getting the MN GOP financial house in order. But, as Rep. John Kriesel points out, it’s also an opportunity to increase their appeal to today’s [...]
@sumnums ran “some nums” on how much the Wilf family is demanding from the public to build their 21,000 car parking lot in Arden Hills (with a replacement NFL stadium). All in, with interest, @sumnums’ calculation of the cost per household for every single household in the State of Minnesota is $449.75. That’s based on [...]
Guy Garner from Aitkin, Minnesota has provided a concise argument in favor of redistributing state resources from people with nothing to people with nearly everything: The man has a point. A bigoted point. Yet, a point. Clearly, if we stopped helping people with nothing who are trying to make better lives for themselves, the State [...]
Googlism tracks what the web is saying about a topic. In this case, Zygi Wilf: zygi wilf is buying influence to get a new zygi wilf is buying influence to get a new stadium zygi wilf is making it explicitly clear that they have zygi wilf is a man of his word zygi wilf is [...]
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