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What about Minnesota? Was the money that should have been spent on the I35 bridge used on some sports infrastructure?

We have met the enemy, and he is us — Pogo
by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Thu Jan 3rd, 2008 at 05:47:43 PM EST
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Three such structures. A new baseball stadium, a new university stadium, primarily football use (but also for the other football), and about ten years back a hockey stadium.

There are also calls for another professional football stadium (on top of the university one already built), which will likely also happen if history is any judge.

On the other hand, there are about a half-dozen high-traffic bridges (two of which I ride under with my bike, like the 35W bridge) with worse structural sufficiency ratings than the one that went down.

It's gratifying to me to see politicians in the US and in my home state able to come together and get something done for the wealthy sons of bitches on behalf of whom virtually everything in this country gets done.

I mentioned the baseball one in the diary.

by redstar on Thu Jan 3rd, 2008 at 05:52:29 PM EST
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Sorry, I missed the short paragraph about the Twins.

We have met the enemy, and he is us — Pogo
by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Thu Jan 3rd, 2008 at 05:56:57 PM EST
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The bridge collapse likely means Zigi doesn't get public money for his football stadium. But then, sometimes, even I am not cynical enough.

you are the media you consume.

by MillMan (millguy at gmail) on Thu Jan 3rd, 2008 at 10:54:52 PM EST
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Even worse.

The politicos and owners of the Twins crossed that bridge on the way to the new publicly-financed stadium groundbreaking about 30 minutes before the bridge collapsed.

by Upstate NY on Fri Jan 4th, 2008 at 04:01:14 PM EST
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