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February 14, 2006

For the decaying Rust Belt city that has everything...

A Cleveland city councilman and a local developer are proposing that the city extend the cigarette and alcohol taxes that paid for Browns Stadium, to raise $90 million to stick a "state-of-the-art retractable roof" on top of it. So that Cleveland can get the Super Bowl. Because, you know, if it only had a Super Bowl maybe Cleveland could be the next Detroit.

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Wouldn't Cleveland be better off and taking that $90 million and putting it towards the construction of a soccer stadium for a new MLS expansion team?

Posted by: Bertell Ollman on February 15, 2006 03:36 AM

In the sense that a kick in the head is better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick, maybe.

Posted by: Neil on February 15, 2006 07:33 AM

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