Jim Jacobsen wrote:
>Every town in America, large and small, has a public
>arena of some kind, for public events, --and a public
>baseball park.
This is not, in fact, the case. Dodger Stadium in
Los Angeles was built with private money and was the
property of the O'Malley family (along with the team)
until they sold both of them. Unfortunately, Jim is
right about the other 29 baseball parks.
If a park is built by the county, it would be best
for all concerned if it was built with revenue bonds
repaid from ticket surcharges, private seat licenses,
and naming rights - if we can find a local company
silly enough to shell out for such after the debacles
of Enron and PSINet, both of which crashed and burned
not too long after shelling out megabucks to get their
name on a stadium.
I completely agree that neither the city nor the
state should be spending general revenue money or
imposing additional taxes to pay for a new park, though
I am far from convinced that throwing more money at the
Minneapolis Public Schools is going to accomplish any
more than increased funding has in Cleveland, Washington, Philadelphia...need I go on?
Kevin Trainor
6-10, East Phillips
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