Tampa Bay Rays Cancel New Stadium Plans After Local Government Stalls Funding
If funding were approved, St. Petersburg residents would have been on the hook for a new stadium for one of baseball’s least attended teams.
If funding were approved, St. Petersburg residents would have been on the hook for a new stadium for one of baseball’s least attended teams.
The Olympics are a great sports event, but one that also often causes great harm. Here are five reforms that can fix that.
The FAA imposes notoriously wide flight restrictions around stadiums. The consumer drone industry wants to change that.
The team's owner, John Fisher, may have overestimated Las Vegas residents' enthusiasm for a new baseball team.
Jackson County, Missouri, voted not to extend a sales tax that would have benefited the Chiefs and the Royals.
Jackson County, Missouri, residents should not be billed for the undertakings of private businesses.
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How much public money will be used remains unclear. The consensus answer seems to be "a lot."
Plus: Austin's newly passed zoning reforms could be in legal jeopardy, HUD releases its latest census of the homeless population, and a little-discussed Florida reform is spurring a wave of home construction.
The proposed deal could be the largest-ever government subsidy for a sports stadium. Studies consistently show such handouts don't benefit communities.
Just 24 percent of self-identified Trump voters and 34 percent of self-identified Biden voters say they support a public handout for the Milwaukee Brewers' 22-year-old stadium.
But will it solve the team's attendance woes? Probably not.
The Houston-area Aldine Independent School District is considering the use of eminent domain to seize a one-acre property owned and occupied by Travis Upchurch.
Apparently $600 million to improve a very nice stadium isn’t enough.
But it didn't matter, as Nevada lawmakers approved a $600 million handout to the team.
A good example of why so few stadium deals end up on the ballot.
Taxpayers are on the hook for $1.26 billion for a new stadium in Nashville.
Taxpayers spent about $500 million to build U.S Bank stadium, which is just seven years old.
Is there a single movie more tied up with lousy government policy than Field of Dreams?
The economic benefits are a home run that never came, and never should have been expected.
If approved by the New York legislature, it would be the biggest public handout in NFL history.
Meanwhile, Virginia and Washington, D.C., are in a bidding war to decide which taxpayers will have the chance to pay for the Washington Commanders' new stadium. It shouldn't be this way.
Other teams beg for taxpayer handouts.
In Albuquerque, Augusta, and Denver, plans to borrow and spend on stadiums got soundly defeated on Election Day.
"I don't understand why money is leaving my pocket and going into the pocket of somebody who is wealthy."
Taxpayers already spend millions to build minor league ballparks. Sen. Richard Blumenthal thinks they should financially support the teams, too.
The tech billionaire isn't alone among the mega-wealthy in getting piles of money from government at all levels, say the authors of Welfare for the Rich.
A reshuffling and reduction of Major League Baseball's feeder system means spending taxpayer money on stadiums looks even more foolish than it was before.
A tale of ballpark upgrades and wasteful government spending
A new documentary chronicles the defeat of a grassroots protest to halt the Texas Rangers' subsidized stadium deal.
But then, those stadiums weren't likely to bring the growth the cities wanted in the first place.
These subsidies were a bad deal for taxpayers even in good times. In the midst of a global pandemic, they're devastating.
A proposition approved last week will require a majority of city voters to approve any future stadium project that uses more than $5 million in public money.
Why do elected officials keep pushing the same damn lies about the economic impact of publicly funded sports events?
Rather than sell its money-losing golf courses, city officials recommend trying to sell more Portlanders on the joys of golf.
Making infrastructure funds fun again!
Across the country, minor league teams are exploiting civic enthusiasm for small town sports.
There's no reason for taxpayers to finance athletic colosseums, and the Rams are providing a model for the next era of new stadiums.
Sports stadiums get billions of dollars in taxpayer subsidies.
"We are not in the business of paying taxes to support private enterprise, and especially not an entertainment enterprise," says your new hero Greta Rogers.
The stadium never turned a profit and the team skipped town when local officials decided to start charging rent.
The stadium building craze of the early 2000s has slowed, but the Redskins might be the next team to test the waters.
Why can't the team just play in the city's NFL stadium?
The NCAA says Cincinnati will get to host first and second round games in 2022, but only if taxpayers fund massive upgrades to U.S. Bank Arena.
The National Football League is propped up by a wide range of public subsidies.
(You don't really have to shut up, but here's my money.)
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