Posted on May 15, 2013. Tags: 10 Million, Appropriation, City Council Members, Civic Leaders, Collateral, Economic Development Authority, Governors, Ironclad Assurances, Mayors, Overruns, Price Tag, Private Entities, Public Private Partnerships, Richmond, Richmond Dispatch, Richmond Times Dispatch, Sweetheart Deals, Training Camp, Washington Redskins, Washington Redskins Training
The Richmond Times-Dispatch reported that City Council is questioning a $800,000 cost overrun on the Redskins deal! The price tag for the Washington Redskins training camp and attached park area has pushed about $800,000 past the original $10 million appropriation from Richmond, prompting questions from City Council members over whether the Richmond Economic Development Authority, […]
Elwood "Sandy" Sanders is a Hanover attorney who is an Appellate Procedure Consultant for Lantagne Legal Printing and has written ten scholarly legal articles. Sandy was also Virginia's first Appellate Defender and also helped bring curling in VA! (None of these titles imply any endorsement of Sanders’ views)
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Posted on February 24, 2013. Tags: Adam Thierer, California Virginia, Center On Budget And Policy Priorities, Corporate Welfare, Cronyism, Economic Payoff, Film Studies, Financial Incentives, George Mason University, Inducements, Largess, Moneyball, Photo Ops, Public Partnerships, Public Private Partnerships, Schindler S List, State Incentives, Staters, Steven Spielberg, Wall Street Journal
Two articles, one in the WSJ and one in Style, Richmond’s urban alternative newspaper, both touching on events in Richmond, illustrates the dangers of public-private partnerships (an aspect of Agenda 21, I am told!) that I call corporate welfare. If i were in office, I would have voted no to both. From the Wall Street […]
Elwood "Sandy" Sanders is a Hanover attorney who is an Appellate Procedure Consultant for Lantagne Legal Printing and has written ten scholarly legal articles. Sandy was also Virginia's first Appellate Defender and also helped bring curling in VA! (None of these titles imply any endorsement of Sanders’ views)
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