Life in these Untidy States: Stadium--The Abridged Edition

[athelind]

I guess I can boil down my last post into a couple of simple questions:

Does investing public money into building a stadium actually yield a net economic benefit to the community?

If so, does it actually provide more of a benefit than investing the same public money into, say, public transit or public utilities*?

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*Note that Santa Clara is one of the few municipalities in Northern California that has its own, independent power generation facilities, and thus is not a serf to PG&E; as a result, they're one of the targets of Proposition 16, officially named the "Right To Vote Act", but generally recognized as the "PG&E Power Grab" or "Monopoly Preservation Act".

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Comments

[athelind.livejournal.com]

I'm gonna beg off tonight -- I've got another Bullet Proof Headache, and I doubt an evening of work at Legends is going to help it much. Thank you for the invite, though!

A little lead time and a chance to adjust to the concept of "work is over, but home is in the opposite direction" should leave me more amenable; I kinda have to steel myself to the idea of "going out and doing stuff".