Changed on the Blogroll May 30, 2008
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The Political Cesspool’s blog is now James Edwards’s personal blog. As a reminder, TPC returns this Sunday, from 4 to 7 PM.
Ramming Through the City Treasury May 30, 2008
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Want to keep the Rams? Looks like you’ll have to shell out a Cool Bill to do so. Turns out that there’s an obscure clause in the deal that bought the team from Anaheim to St. Louis in 1995 that stipulates that the St. Louis stadium must rank within the top 25% of NFL stadiums, i.e. in the top eight. What exactly is meant by being a top venue is not stated here, and one assumes that it is defined in the legalese. And as it turns out, that venue we built for them in the early-to-mid 1990s, the one that St. Louis just had to have, and was good enough for Pope John Paul II to host the largest indoor gathering in the history of the United States in January 1999, is just too old and passe to square with the legalese.
Of course, with A-B about to depart St. Louis, where is this revenue going to come from?
Ramming Through the City Treasury, Part 2 May 30, 2008
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In 2007, Anheuser-Busch had the following impacts on the City’s budget:
Employees: 5,033
Payroll taxes: $2,016,266
Earnings taxes: $3,483,833
Real property taxes: $5,939,434
Personal property taxes: $1,545,453
And those will be the exact number of employees that will keep their jobs, and the exact number of tax dollars the city treasury will continue to receive, according to the promises that InBev and the pro-buyout shylocks at A-B will make in order to grease the political skids to make this merger happen. And those will be the exact number of employees that will lose their jobs, and the exact number of tax dollars that the city treasury will no longer receive, when those promises are broken.
Of Cranes and Guns May 30, 2008
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AP:
NEW YORK (AP) — A construction crane collapsed Friday on New York’s Upper East Side, smashing into a 23-story apartment building as it fell to the ground, killing two construction workers and seriously injuring another.
It was the second deadly crane accident in 2 1/2 months and the latest of several construction mishaps in the city, which recently shook up its Buildings Department and beefed up inspections.
“What has happened is unacceptable and intolerable. Having said that, we do not know at the moment what happened or why,” said Mayor Michael Bloomberg at a news conference, adding that it appears the builders followed regulations.
So, those who handled the cranes followed the rules, so it doesn’t appear that the city can sue. Too bad that’s not Mikey’s attitude about gun dealers.
