(UPDATE: A second hearing before the House Finance Committee is scheduled for Tuesday, June 19, in Room 35. The committee calendar says 3:35pm but these hearings tend to go late. ProJo 6.15.18.) And NO to Mattiello’s schemes. Here is all you need to know about the stadium deal at this point: PawSox ownership is lying …
(9.26) [Additional Note: Today’s ProJo reports that the sign-up sheet at the first hearing was conducted in bad faith. No reason to believe tonight’s will be any different . . . these hearings are theater. An alternate event has been planned by opponents. The term of Committee Chair Senator William Conley ends in 2018. He …
(9.14) Do not sit this one out. If you think the billionaire owners of the Pawtucket Red Sox should pay for their own stadium, then get over to the state house Thursday and make your feelings known to the Senate Finance Committee. This, the first of six hearings, will start at 6pm in Room 313. …
They’re baaaack. The PawSox ownership team still thinks we should pay for their new stadium and they have arranged with the Senate Finance Committee to hold six public hearings around the state. (The hearings have a website.) This plan may sound like a good-faith effort to get out and “speak to the people.” On the …
The PawSox have decided they want to start seeing other people. To which I say “Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn.” The last two years of this battle have killed my enthusiasm for McCoy. I never go anymore. Why would we ever want to enter into a risky, complex, and long-term business deal …
“We have to get over the 38 STUDIOS HANGOVER.” (ProJo 10.21.15/Caps theirs.) So said House Speaker Nicholas Mattiello at a speech to the Rhode Island Public Expenditure Council’s annual meeting Monday night adding, “A company from outside Rhode Island is not going to locate here if they pick up the newspaper every day and see …
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Ding dong, the deal is dead. If ever there was a time for exclamation points in the header this is it! Negotiations are over. Kate Bramson of the Providence Journal finally tweeted a few moments ago, The Pawtucket Red Sox today said that Rhode island Governor Gina Raimondo has determined that the I-195 site on …
A message for those elected officials still supporting the PawSox stadium deal: With all the data and analysis now available (including the conclusions of Mattiello’s consultant, and PawSox mole, Andrew Zimbalist, who didn’t like stadiums until he suddenly decided he did) a ‘yes’ vote on a stadium deal allows for only one explanation. You can …
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Did they think that we could be bought off with a trip to Durham, North Carolina? Come on sizzle it a little, throw in a layover in Moosic, Pennsylvania and then maybe we’ll talk. Mr. Lucchino et al. have yet to figure out that opponents to the stadium are not basing their stance on anecdotal …
House Speaker Nicholas A. Mattiello is still talking as if he has heard, read, and learned, absolutely nothing about the current thinking on taxpayer-funded stadiums from around the country. From Katherine Gregg’s ‘Politics’ column in today’s ProJo. On the proposed Providence stadium, he said: “Negotiations are active between the state and the Pawtucket Red Sox ownership …
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As if more evidence were needed on the negative impact of taxpayer-supported stadiums, here comes John Oliver on Last Week Tonight to lay it all out! His timing could not be more perfect for us here in Rhode Island. This piece would be more hilarious if it didn’t recount the devastating effects of these projects …
(7.13) And it was never intended for anyone else! No New Stadium is inviting one and all to come and stake claim to the public open space — set aside by the 195 Commission as mandated by the federal government — that the PawSox multi-millionaires think is theirs. (PawSox rep Charles “where’s the river?” Steinberg …
(6.25) Head down to the state house, Thursday at 5pm, for a Rally Against Stadium Proposal. Organizer David Norton of “Keep PawSox in Pawtucket,” and “No New Stadium” (a grassroots organization opposing the riverfront site and taxpayer funding), invite everyone who opposes this project to show up! GoLocal spoke with opponent David Fisher, “Once again …
PawSox owner James Skeffington will be addressing the monthly Jewelry District Association (JDA) meeting today elaborating on what a great deal a taxpayer-funded sports stadiums will be for him. If, however, you believe that 1) the riverfront is the wrong location, and 2) $150+ million of your tax dollars should not be used for this …
Oh, and we’re gonna need part of Peck Street — just change that ‘Financial District’ to ‘Minimum Wage Hollow.’ Well not so fast says Councilman Samuel D. Zurier (Democrat from the East Side) in “City can toss out PawSox owners” (ProJo 4.30.15). As if further proof of the owners’ arrogance was needed, these guys have …
And these bumper stickers are now available. A Facebook page calling itself “No new stadium for Providence” has this succinct overview of the situation. If the new owners of the Pawtucket Red Sox need a new stadium, paid for through subsidies, tax breaks and funding from the state, they should leave RI. . . How …