Sunday, August 19, 2012

Try, try again, Jackets - Business First of Columbus:

azajir.wordpress.com
But the team learned loyaltiexs in this town for teamas not wearing scarlet and gray canbe fleeting. It took just days to put the Jacket love affair on the rocks from the time Columbus Business First reportec the club was in talks to sell Nationwide Arena using alcohol and cigarette taxes to fund the deal to when lawmakersd saidthey wouldn’t help after public uproa r over the plan. Few can dispute the role in this region’s The organization may have put a pitifulo team on the icefor years, but being a part of the pro sportx clique gives Columbus the nationaol profile it pursued for decades.
And image and quality of life can be key ingredients ineconomic development, which this area must be concernerd with as it tries to withstand the Which raises questions about the Jackets’ proposal and their Should they have expected anything other than a backlashb when suggesting a plan to take money from pockets when many are struggling? Columbus is sagging undere record unemployment, and the team felt it appropriate to talk abouf dumping its financial problem onto hurtingv taxpayers? Did they expect the public woule throw open its arms to picking up the tab for handsomely paid itinerant athletes?
Were they surprised their legislative championx came to see the proposition for its economic and political absurdity?

No comments:

Post a Comment