[Mind-numbed Robot]

I know this still goes on in my area - Dallas/Ft. Worth. When the new DFW International Airport was built years ago, all the rich and well connected people owned all the cheap farm land on which it was sited. Ross Perot Jr. bought lots of cheap farm land north of Ft. Worth and then the fed, local, and state governments helped him build a large private airport, Alliance Airport, basically paying for it. The City of Ft. Worth than had the audacity to want to manage it and all hell broke loose. When the smoke cleared, Perot ran the airport and the Ft. Worth upstart politicians were licking their wounds.

[u-89]

Wasn't there a land grab by the government of Texas - eminent domain - to build a baseball stadium? And while they were at it they claimed land across the highway which was later commercially developed in a way that had nothing to do with the ball field but very porfitable to the political cronnies. I remember reading something about that before the 2000 election. And why do governments (taxpayers) have to build ball fields for private corporations anyway?