I think they’ll find that the building of the stadium as a quasi-public work had more to do with who got the bond and insurance deals: For two decades now, Major League Baseball has funded its rise from corporate slacker to gilded cash cow on the backs of taxpayers bullied into building new stadiums. It’s a marvel the government took so long to sniff out the rot that emanates from these deals, though not much of a surprise that the [...]
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