Tonight’s the city council decision in Las Vegas on sinking $3 million a year into a new MLS stadium (actual MLS team not included), and all eyes are on swing vote Lois Tarkanian, who has remained a mystery as to which way she will—
“I’m leaning towards the no,” Tarkanian said late Tuesday afternoon, with stadium studies and phone messages piled on her City Hall seventh-floor office table. “A stadium would be great for the city, but I think it’s a little too early. Either way, I will have a lot of people hating me tomorrow.”
Aw, come on, spoilers!
The two likely scenarios here are either that Tarkanian decides to stick a fork in the plan, or votes to kick the can down the road another two months, in hopes the stadium developers come up with a plan that doesn’t involve the city almost certainly losing money. Can-kicking is a time-honored local government tradition, so I’ll put my bet on that one, but it still doesn’t make the MLS plan anything better than mostly dead.