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MLS stadium plans for Charlotte, Raleigh about to flop?

Soccer promoters in North Carolina’s two biggest cities have pursued public and private financing in their bids to build stadiums and attract major league clubs, but questions in Raleigh over a proposed stadium built on public land and hits to Charlotte’s public funding plan threaten to draw the dreaded red card. Mecklenburg County commissioners voted...

Will Rierson
Video

JLF’s Julie Tisdale pans taxpayer support of new sports stadiums

Julie Tisdale, John Locke Foundation city and county policy analyst, explains why taxpayer support of new sports stadiums doesn’t make economic sense for Raleigh or other communities. Tisdale offered these comments during an interview with Donna Martinez for Carolina Journal Radio.

Julie Tisdale
Opinion

More Bad Ballpark News

A few weeks ago, I wrote about a ballpark proposal in High Point. Recently, I saw a Fayetteville Observer headline: “Fayetteville, Cumberland officials to visit Columbia, S.C. to tour baseball stadium.”  Oh, no.  I knew where this was going. And I was right. The city has met with the Houston Astros about bringing a minor...

Julie Tisdale

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