@GaTechAlum_IE92@Matt_Bedsole@Urban_Connector 425 people died in car wrecks across Atlanta’s 5 counties in 24. How many died using Marta?
Stop using the medias narratives. Adding more cars is the way to fix operations. You can’t waste time adding meaningful fixes to it
Gotta love when a @Newsweek hack rushes to get a “Caitlin Clark trade to Sparks rumor” piece out for engagement farming, and forgets to delete their AI chat prompts from the piece.
#NowYouKnow@IndianaFever#WNBA
So many in Illinois who constantly bitch about taxes/Pritzker/Democrats/Chicago are upset they won’t give taxpayer money to billionaire NFL owners.
So many in Indiana who badmouth Illinois for the same reasons seem pretty jazzed about paying taxes for a new stadium.
#bears
I definitely understand this point and yes, NW Indiana has been dying. But “this region needs something” and “a Bears stadium is that something” are two completely different things. It's so much research on stadiums and regional revitalization and it's sadly been pretty consistent. The truth is that they don’t fix dying regions. While they do generate activity that is localized around the stadium, the surrounding areas often see rising rents and displacement rather than uplift.
It's what happened in Inglewood, California. Residents near SoFi Stadium got priced out by real estate speculation.
It's gonna hurt an already hurting area
The “carrying its weight” framing gets the economics backwards. The stadium is being funded through a 1% food and beverage tax in Lake and Porter counties. That means the working-class residents of Hammond and Gary — people already economically stressed — are subsidizing a billion-dollar gift to a franchise worth $9 billion. They’re not “carrying their weight.” They’re being taxed so the McCaskeys can carry theirs