Field of Schemes
Fieldofschemes.com serves as the online partner to the book Field of Schemes: How the Great Stadium Swindle Turns Public Money Into Private Profit, authored by Joanna Cagan and Neil deMause. Since its inception in 1998, the website has focused on scrutinizing the approximately $2 billion annually allocated in public funds for the construction of new professional sports venues.
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2 days ago |
fieldofschemes.com | Neil deMause |personNeil deMause
Before we get to the weekly news roundup, a commenter asked me a question yesterday — I mean, I think they may actually have been trying to troll me, but it was in the form of a question — about how it could be better for Missouri to risk the Kansas City Chiefs moving to Kansas and losing all the tax revenue that comes with games.
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3 days ago |
fieldofschemes.com | Neil deMause |personNeil deMause
The Ohio state senate has a new plan for funding a Cleveland Browns stadium, and it’s neither Gov. Mike DeWine’s plan to use increased taxes on sports gambling nor legislative leaders’ plans to siphon off taxes on spending at a new facility and kick them back to the team — not exactly, anyway.
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3 days ago |
fieldofschemes.com | Neil deMause |personNeil deMause
After spending most of yesterday not meeting and instead haggling behind the scenes, the Missouri state senate finally reconvened its special session last night and then voted at 2:30 am to approve Gov. Mike Kehoe’s stadium subsidy bill. The vote was 19-13, with seven of the senate’s 10 Democrats joining 12 of its 24 Republicans in favor.
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4 days ago |
fieldofschemes.com | Neil deMause |personNeil deMause
Missouri Gov. Mike Kehoe’s bill to pay for half the cost of all future MLB and NFL stadium construction and major renovations passed the state senate fiscal oversight committee 6-3 yesterday, setting up a vote of the full senate, where the legislation faces stiffer opposition.
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5 days ago |
fieldofschemes.com | Neil deMause |personNeil deMause
We’re now one day into the Missouri legislature’s special session to discuss Kansas City Chiefs and Royals stadium subsidies (plus stuff like tornado relief that legislators might demand as tradeoffs for approving stadium subsidies), and here’s where things stand, roughly in order of least to most LOL:Democratic Senate minority leader Doug Beck said his caucus is willing to consider Gov.
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