Posted on 08/30/2012 1:56:51 PM PDT by C19fan
Call it the palace of high school football: A gleaming $60 million facility with seats for 18,000 roaring fans, a 38-foot-wide high-definition video screen, corporate sponsors and a towering upper deck. Welcome to the new home of Eagles Football. As school districts across the country struggle to retain teachers, replace outdated textbooks and keep class sizes from ballooning, the wealthy, burgeoning Dallas suburb of Allen is preparing to christen its new stadium with a sold-out Friday night matchup against defending state champions Southlake Carroll.
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That’s a separate point and also valid.
I don’t know what the TX State Constitution says on such matters.
But I do know that the US Constitution doesn’t have anything in there about subsidizing High School football stadiums.
Seems like the GB packers trained in the Southlake Carroll HS stadium, and thought that it was a better facility than what they trained in.
I find it amusing that an “ostensible” conservative would have any problem with local folks voting to fund whatever they want. I can assure you ten years from now the good local Texans are much more likely to pass another bond issue to improve the facility than cry about “excesive” funding Texans are like that.
I think you are a bit bored with nothing to watch on the tube tonight as I cant believe any conservative would really care how local taxpayers vote to spend their own money...a lib on the other hand would have plenty of problems with it...
I'll remember that, in case you and I ever find ourselves discussing "stimulus" packages. /s
WHY?
As Louis Armstrong once said when someone asked him to describe Jazz "If you have to ask, you'll never understand the answer."
Of course, we built a state-of-the-art breweries for both fine spirits and beer... before we turned the first spade of dirt on Eagle Stadium.
Now, that is having your priorities in order... isn't it?
Sure is, Bendy... sure is!
When I look down from space, Bend, I can see both... but then again, I may be seeing double as Happy Hour up here is an all day affair--
What, Bender... no state-of-the-art shooting range?
Of course, they have a shooting and skeet range, Clint... Bendy had both built under the stadium parking lot.
Thanks, Sarah, now... you want another beer?
Bendy, here in Spain they combine a winery, Nunnary and bull fighting ring... that you can get do just about anything there just as long as it is done in black & white.
I was going to film my next black & white master piece, Nuns there, Michael Caine in Spain, but Google posted me... in color. That destroyed all my creditability... as an authentic 'Auteur' film director!
Here to that new high school library... Bend!
Yeah, Dean, but before we build that it we need to build a fine cigar factory... complete with a bevy 18-year old virgins to roll the Churchills and Gran Coronas on their well toned, tanned thighs.
“The school district decided to build it in a down economy, knowing full well it will never recoup the costs”
That’s fine if that’s what the local taxpayers want to take out of their own personal funds. Anyone is free to invest their own personal money into a losing investment if they so wish. They voted on it at the LOCAL level. That’s SMALL GOVERNMENT in action.
But I would bet that’s not the whole story and other people are subsidizing this who didn’t get a chance to vote on it. I’ll keep digging.
I wouldn’t worry too much about it . . . no one’s minds will be changed (nor do I care if they are not). I simply wanted to see if there are any fiscal conservatives among Texas HS football fans.
This was a LOCAL decision, affecting the LOCAL voters and their school. As far as I'm concerned, LOCAL elections take care of those who WASTE tax dollars from LOCAL people....they're not spending the tax dollars of people who are not involved/don't live there.
I have been to MANY Southern Football events, and those people LIVE for it.
I'm not impressed with wimpy supposed-sports like soccer, or other unpopular festivities masquerading as "sports".
I have been to MANY Southern Football events, and those people LIVE for it.
Complete non-sequitur.
I'm not impressed with wimpy supposed-sports like soccer, or other unpopular festivities masquerading as "sports".
Even worse of one.
Here we go:
The city [of Allen] is applying for a federal grant to develop transit strategies to get people from elsewhere to their retail and hotel jobs. (other stuff in the requests for Federal grants)
http://www.cityofallen.org/DocumentCenter/Home/View/1707
You can bet if the local people voted to tax themselves to build bike trails and bike lanes or a bus system, the tea party small government types would be apoplectic about it. Nevermind that government on the city or county level is just about as “small government” as you can get.
We played Lawton Eisenhower, Altus, and Duncan before entering into the district with Brownwood, Stephenville, Iowa Park, and Vernon. You cannot tell me the Okie boys don't play just as hard. Our coach had the longest winning streak in Oklahoma HS football at Lindsay back in the early 60's.
The taxpayers approved it.
What is an ISD?
I wouldn't. I was one of them. Up in northern Oklahoma in the fifties. Class C it was at the time.
And, during an away game, you could've laid an artillery barrage on downtown Medford...and hit nobody.
I imagine it was much the same at Burkburnett.
ISD=Independent School District.
Now about those free tickets Bend...
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