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10. Agreed

Thu Jan 14, 2016, 12:19 PM

Jan 2016

I can go with infrastructure enhancements for a stadium built by a team owner, but the facility itself should not involve taxpayer funding.

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Better ways to have spent $280 M in taxpayer money [View all] Algernon Moncrieff Jan 2016 OP

Still $100M left to pay off too exboyfil Jan 2016 #1

Yet when school improvements are needed, the money can never be found. Algernon Moncrieff Jan 2016 #2

School kids don't buy fancy lobster dinners for politicians exboyfil Jan 2016 #4

Here is an article about the awful lease exboyfil Jan 2016 #3

Actually the city is better off financially without the Rams. RichVRichV Jan 2016 #5

And we already know that $400M of taxpayer exboyfil Jan 2016 #6

Good. Let that be a lesson to other cities! Algernon Moncrieff Jan 2016 #8

Thanks for posting. Sherman A1 Jan 2016 #7

I'm fine with NFL owners that will build their own stadiums Algernon Moncrieff Jan 2016 #9

Agreed Sherman A1 Jan 2016 #10