Uneasy Rhetoric

The fact that the arena deal is going down should surprise no one. It was a poorly executed measure designed to coddle the Maloofs by giving them an extraordinary amount of public good for an extremely small private investment.
Yet, under normal circumstances, I wouldn’t have expected it to be as unpopular as it is [...]

I realize Dan Weintraub and I might be on the same side of the arena issue (and it gives me hives to think we might share anything), insofar as we’ve bothered to choose a side, but something didn’t quite strike me as right in his column in today’s Sunday Forum in the Bee.
Dan argues that, [...]

Darrell Steinberg helped broker the deal, now his replacement in the State Assembly is coming out against it. The Business Journal reports that Assemblymember Dave Jones (D-Sactown) doesn’t like the sales tax to fund the arena. He makes an interesting tactical argument, suggesting that downstaters might not vote for the flood protection bond [...]