[TurboZamboni]

"Kelm-Helgen said closed-door discussions are necessary for 'public monies to be protected.'" Star Tribune quoting Michelle Kelm-Helgen, explaining why negotiations regarding Vikings stadium overruns are kept away from the public, even though it's public money at stake. The Vikings football stadium will costs $327 million more to build than the New Horizons space project, which recently sent a vehicle to explore Pluto. That difference will surely be greater once all the cost overruns for the stadium are taken into account.

[ClearCase_guy]

Fellow board members are disputing that, including Executive Director, Ted Mondale ...

I may have found the problem. Politically-connected people can't actually manage anything.

[grania]

Public money being used to finance stadiums make me CRAZY. There is no reason why a stadium couldn't be set up as a public corporation, and those who wanted to could purchase shares.

Around here, it's theater of the absurd. Cleveland Browns stadium was publically financed. So when the owner of the team wanted a more humongous scoreboard, $5 million dollars of public money was used! Yup, people who can't afford to go to games see their tax money being spent on a fancy scoreboard rather than going to cities and towns that need it. And then there's cigarette taxes that go to build stadiums where people can't smoke.

Grrr......

[discostu]

A $1.1 billion project coming in $50 million over really isn’t that big a deal. That’s pretty much rounding error.

[DoughtyOne]

Vikings!

OMG change the name OMG change the name OMG

[truth_seeker]

modern journalism

fails the 5 Ws and an H

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