Stadiums, Why You Silly Self-Serving …
Oh, you just had to go and give them what ever they wanted. ( Source CCO )
(AP) St. Paul In exchange for state help in building a new football stadium, the University of Minnesota has offered to hand over to the state what the school has described as a priceless nature reserve.
UMore Park in Dakota County has 2,840 acres of green space and is a habitat for two endangered species, the Blanding’s turtle and the loggerhead shrike. Recreational uses could include gardens and horseback riding, legislators have been told.
As usual, the self-serving Legislators took that as reason enough to spend hundreds of millions of dollars on a absolute sham.
What hasn’t been discussed is the land’s toxic legacy, a World War II-era gunpowder plant that created a chemical blight that could be costly to clean up and might restrict the site’s future use.
Huh? I thought it was a pristine nature preserve. Now why did the U want to rid itself of such a valuable nature area? Oh yeah, because they could.
Even as leading lawmakers were saying that approval for a new on-campus football stadium is likely this year, school officials met privately with the Army Corps of Engineers in Washington, D.C., to discuss the 60-year old pollution problem.
So as usual, the U of M has twisted the arms of legislators for hundreds of millions of dollars. And in return, we are getting highly polluted land that will cost us millions and millions to clean up.
Idiots! Self-serving fools!
Gee, what is next? How about you guys decide that another group of self-serving SOB’s can raise taxes to build another stadium for the Twins. Oh, and in that case, let’s make sure that it is in a place where the state will be obligated to increase infrastructure. Like just out of reach where both Hiawatha and Northstar end. That way the state will be forced to pay hundreds of millions more to extend both lines, and pour more money into the back-pockets of other self serving parties.
I forgot, but weren’t the people who happen to own the land for the new Twin’s Stadium also heavily invested into Northstar and/or Hiawatha?
Are you all really this stupid?
Pretty sweet deal for the U, eh? The U gets to swap polluted, unusable land for a shiny, new football stadium paid for by the state of Minnesota. In either instance, the state will pick up the tab for the U.
I guess the Legislature went for the prize behind Door Number 3 and got a donkey instead of a car.
Thing about it is, we (the taxpayers) already owned the land in the first place. Now we’re selling polluted land back to ourselves, and will have to pay (through our federal taxes) to clean it up, to boot!
And the deal even states that the University maintains control over said land.
Boy did we get a bill of goods!
Ya we got dis land hey, she’s a bit of a fixer-upper but she’s pristine and priceless…
O yeah, you don’t actually get to use da land; but you do get to pay to clean da place up… and pay for our stadium, too, doncha know!
BTW… can we ask y’all nice Minnesotans to bend over and take anudder fer de ol’ team?