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July 30, 2004

Loudoun County gets loud

Sounds like Northern Virginia residents are starting to get hep to the notion of opportunity cost: At a small demonstration against the state's plan to build a $442 million stadium to lure the Montreal Expos, Arlington resident John Antonelli charged that because all new tax revenues from the stadium would be diverted to pay back construction costs, "If I put a Popsicle stand on that site, it will generate more money for this county than that stadium." The PR man representing the development consortium that would build the stadium complex responded by calling opponents "carpetbaggers." Because, you know, they're from Arlington County, Virginia, and the stadium would be in Loudoun County, Virginia. And the real-life carpetbaggers ... on second thought, I think somebody should have been paying closer attention in PR school.

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