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February 9, 2006
Stadium news
The big new-sports-venue news yesterday was the release of the Good Jobs NY analysis and report on the Yankee Stadium deal.
Here are a bunch of links for readers who want to learn more about how such deals are structured these days. Team owners pay for the venue while taxpayers get to foot the bill for all the extras:
The NY Post, $TRIKING OUT AT STADIUM
The NY Daily News, New stadium report: Thee Yankees win!
The NY Sun, Watchdog Group Gives Proposed Yankee Stadium a Bronx Cheer
GlobeSt.com, Group Cries Foul Over Yankee Stadium Proposal
Field of Schemes, Yankees stadium cost to taxpayers nears $500M
Field of Schemes, The empire strikes back
[WARNING: Gratuitous weekly pot shot at the "paper of record."]
The NY Times, OOPS... must have missed something. It's got to be here somewhere. Hmm, the only items that turned up in the Times on the Yankees' deal are two letters (one from a Good Jobs NY research analyst), published in response to last month's op-ed piece supporting the project by Andrew Zimbalist.
Posted by lumi at February 9, 2006 6:56 AM