Please….. Please…. Stop writing unfavorable articles about the convention center. We find your news reports quite interesting and informative. Yet, optimized negative blogs and random postings serve as an additional hurdle for the convention center to become successful in an unprecedented economy. We need to minimize our risk! Not add to it!
On the contrary……….w/o NewsLanc’s investigative reporting, we would never know the ‘real story’ on lots of issues. At least NewsLanc is willing to “call as they see it”, if that happens to be ‘negative’ so be it. Positve spin may sound good……….but it does not pay the bills. Oh I’m sorry……….that’s for the taxpayers to worry about.
I strongly disagree with this statement.
News and public comment can have NOTHING to do with how well the convention center will perform. Convention sales are strictly between Interstate Hotels and Resorts and event organizers. Neither public support nor public criticism will make any kind of difference whatsoever.
On the other hand, it is extremely likely that the convention center (and perhaps the hotel) will be looking for even more taxpayer handouts in the foreseeable future. Only by making people aware of how badly our tax dollars have been misused and abused can enough pressure be brought on public officials to convince them that not one cent more in taxpayer subsidies is acceptable.
It’s too bad that NewsLanc was [not] around in the beginning of the project to act as a check and balance. Perhaps we wouldn’t have such a white elephant, or at least one not built by our taxes.
I think the CC issue needs much more study and exposure so that we can avoid repeating similar misallocations of government dollars.
Do you think this guy has his neighbor’s house wired into his electric meter and just pays the bill and accepts whatever his neighbor cares to chip-in against the total?