You know what starts your day right? A 5-year-old with a 3 a.m. accident from too much chocolate milk (my fault!) and a wife with a 6 a.m. dead car battery (her fault — left the keys in the ignition when getting a CD out last night.) Anyhow…
You know how backers of spending $550 million in taxpayer-backed money on a convention center hotel like to use Victory Park as an example another great city project that used taxpayer funds? Well, you probably won’t be hearing that as much. Granted, Victory’s problems won’t leave taxpayers in Dallas on the hook. The hotel, however, when it fails, guess who’s left holding the bag.
Just remember — if you don’t want to sell your land, stand your ground. You may lose when government steals it to make way for a commercial development. (Land of the free? Home of the brave? Not so much.) But you may make the bastards pay through the nose. Which is something these guys in the SMU lawsuit apparently already know.
The good: Six Flags finally gets its license to sell beer. That bad: It’s 2009, and yet some people still argue that “serving alcohol doesn’t set a good example for kids.”
Define “whiny journalism.”
A long run for a short slide.
Tax payer’s aren’t on the hook for Victory? We’ve only been footing the bill for all of the city services used by the residents and visitors. Perot gets most of the tax revenue.
OK, fair point, Nathan, they are to a degree on the hook. But I was speaking broadly that the Victory deal, while not great for taxpayers, isn’t anything like the disaster that the convention center hotel deal will be.