May 02, 2004
Voting with their feet
"How many people flee North Texas because the sports facilities are lame?" That's one of many questions posed by Fort Worth Star-Telegram columnist Mitchell Schnurman about the Dallas Cowboys' $425 million stadium-subsidy demand. Schnurman suggests that education or public hospitals would be higher on most residents' priority list, and notes that the last time Jerry Jones asked for public stadium funds - a 1996 referendum where he pressed the city of Irving to pull out of the region's DART mass-transit system and instead use its 1% sales-tax hike to renovate Texas Stadium - voters overwhelmingly rejected it.
Posted by Neil deMause
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