With Minnesota’s stadium screening committee set to issue its final report next week, a key issue is likely to be whether to allow the public to vote on any new taxes to build stadiums for the Twins and Vikings. The St. Paul Pioneer Press reports that committee chair Dan McElroy is leaning toward requiring a referendum to approve any stadium plan, but that “the Twins and Vikings don’t like them because they add uncertainty to an already fragile process.” (Translation: They might lose.) Other items still to be decided by the committee: Which of the four remaining plans to recommend to the governor, and whether or not to propose building a gambling casino in the Twin Cities to help fund the hundreds in millions of dollars in state costs.
