BAMANBLAZERFAN
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RE: BBJ: Birmingham leaders weigh $30 million Legion Field upgrade
Mayor Woodfin can only do what the City Council provides him with the funding to do. I suspect that the $30 million figure for Legion Field upkeep and "improvements" did not originate with him, but came from the Council and to them from corporate entities in the city's metro area. There may be powerful business forces within the city that want to protect Legion Field from potentially being demolished -- a likely result of building any new downtown stadium.
Many folks are critical of B'ham because of it not being like the other major cities in regional states, but those cities do not have to operate within a state run under a 19th century values Constitution that was primarily designed to protect White Supremacy, state tax protection for big agricultural and industrial business as well as low income taxes for the top 10%. It has so far been very successful in all these pursuits to the detriment of its major cities.
What other state has passed a law (like Alabama did in 2016) effectively guaranteeing that its workers would provide the cheapest labor costs allowed in any American state?
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12-04-2017 01:21 PM |
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