On Missed Opportunities
Yea, so I don't really blog all that much. I hit the blog area of my favorites and I find myself reading capital brew-ha-ha and then following his trail of beer. I can't call those opportunities missed, because the choice was to post something about nothing to be read by no one or drink good beer. No opportunity cost, it past my personal CBA.
In order to miss an opportunity there has to be a chance for something better if a different choice is made. Take for example passing a half-assed stadium bill that is not even the best offer the team has made over the last several years and designating a tax for it without addressing ANY public infrastructure issue.
Building places people congregate (read: sport stadiums) without building the infrastructure to support it is stupid. Stadium solutions that do not address transit options are missed opportunities. Need I go into the whole we need to think of a future with less gas?
We should have built a Twins stadium and a Gopher Stadium along with the Central corridor and develop a good deal with a transit componet for the Vikings Stadium. That is a missed opportunity that we have to live with for years.
If the East Metro delegation had held together... It should be noted that there is no East Metro Delegation. It is an idea that Sharon Marko and Randy Kelly had worked to forge in the waning days of the 2005 session and never has really seemed to fit. But let's assume that Ramsey, Washington and Dakota County legislators worked together as well as Hennepin and Anoka or the Range Delegation. Their 10 votes in the House for the stadium (Charron, Entenza, Lesch, Lillie, McNamara, Mahoney, Meslow, Scalzie, Slawick, Thao) could have forced a real commitment to the Central corridor and true metro-wide development.
Steve Kelley even made the link in the Senate bill! All they had to do was work together and work smart and everyone would be happy. But today we have a crappy stadium plan that was passed in a very divisive manner that will have something for everyone to hate for years to come. I think there were very good ideas that were drowned out of this final bill. I think we missed a wonderful opportunity.
In order to miss an opportunity there has to be a chance for something better if a different choice is made. Take for example passing a half-assed stadium bill that is not even the best offer the team has made over the last several years and designating a tax for it without addressing ANY public infrastructure issue.
Building places people congregate (read: sport stadiums) without building the infrastructure to support it is stupid. Stadium solutions that do not address transit options are missed opportunities. Need I go into the whole we need to think of a future with less gas?
We should have built a Twins stadium and a Gopher Stadium along with the Central corridor and develop a good deal with a transit componet for the Vikings Stadium. That is a missed opportunity that we have to live with for years.
If the East Metro delegation had held together... It should be noted that there is no East Metro Delegation. It is an idea that Sharon Marko and Randy Kelly had worked to forge in the waning days of the 2005 session and never has really seemed to fit. But let's assume that Ramsey, Washington and Dakota County legislators worked together as well as Hennepin and Anoka or the Range Delegation. Their 10 votes in the House for the stadium (Charron, Entenza, Lesch, Lillie, McNamara, Mahoney, Meslow, Scalzie, Slawick, Thao) could have forced a real commitment to the Central corridor and true metro-wide development.
Steve Kelley even made the link in the Senate bill! All they had to do was work together and work smart and everyone would be happy. But today we have a crappy stadium plan that was passed in a very divisive manner that will have something for everyone to hate for years to come. I think there were very good ideas that were drowned out of this final bill. I think we missed a wonderful opportunity.
posted by Darren at
8:52 AM
1 Comments:
republicans controling the state for the past 8 years has left a leadership void in the dems, and so when the opportunities present themselves (which happens frequently) they're often missed.
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Eric, at Sunday, May 21, 2006
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