THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 2011
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QUOTE OF THE DAY
push it a little
Geoffrey Mutai, who set a course record at the New York Marathon on Sunday.
Mutai, a 30-year-old Kenyan, dashed past the finish line in 2:05:06.
New York Times
Q: Who was the previous record holder and what was his time?
A: Tesfaye Jifar of Ethiopia, 2:07:43 in 2001.
New York Times
New Vikings stadium vital to Minnesota
MORNING BREW
I has been a topic of debate that has defined my life as a Minnesota citizen and sports fan; new stadiums.
During the 2000s, $170 million was spent on the new Minnesota Wild arena. $289 million on the new University of Minnesota football stadium and $545 million on the new Minnesota Twins ballpark. All of those projects were worth the cost and have had a positive economic effect on the Twin Cities and the state of Minnesota. The latest controversial stadium issue involves the Minnesota Vikings.
For more than 10 years, the Vikings have sought a new stadium because the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome is unprofitable and out of date. The dome is a garbage bin with an inflatable lid; the dump of all dumps. The projected cost for a new stadium is $1.1 billion, but the expense is worth it.
My resentment toward politicians intensified last week when the Minnesota legislature announced that the proposed sales tax raise to help finance a new Vikings stadium would require a referendum, and when it canceled a special legislative session to discuss a new stadium.
House Speaker Kurt Zellers became public enemy No.1 when it was reported that he emailed his colleagues to oppose the special session and said the issue can wait another year. Zellers has evaded most direct questions concerning the Vikings stadium.
The Vikings' lease at the Metrodome expires on Feb. 1, 2012, which means they could move to Los Angeles at the end of the season without a deal on a new facility.
The threat is real and imminent. Minnesota sports fans have already undergone the misery of losing the Minneapolis Lakers to Los Angeles in
1960 and the Minnesota North Stars to Dallas in 1993. Losing the Vikings would be cataclysmic.
Vikings fans have already waited for more than 10 years. In another year the cost of the new stadium will increase — or worse, the Vikings might be gone. Zellers and the other politicians who oppose a new stadium don't recognize just what the Vikings mean to the state.
According to Mortensen Construction and Vikings owner Zygi Wilf, the project would create 13,000 jobs, including 7,500 jobs for constructing the facility. The Twin Cities would become a viable candidate to host events such as the NCAA Final Four and Super Bowl. Plus, the stadium would be publicly owned.
The state of Minnesota would collect $20 million annually from stadium-related sales and player income taxes, and 95 percent of the labor and materials costs, valued at $754 million, would go back to Minnesotans.
Nearly 70 percent of the Minnesota population watches the Vikings when they are on television. They are a fabric in the lives of Minnesotans and one of the state's biggest assets. Losing the
Vikings would be financially and socially devastating.
Fortunately, the legislature is considering gambling revenue to help finance a new stadium. If the Vikings leave Minnesota, then Kurt Zellers would be the next Norm Green, the former Minnesota North Stars owner who was responsible for his team leaving for Dallas. Minnesotans still revile him to this day.
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