Can anyone support the constant waste of public money by the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority?
In 2024, the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority (LVCVA) spent more than $2.2M on “influencers to promote the city.” However, the LVCVA refused to tell the public how much each influencer received because LVCVA claimed it was a “trade secret.” Let me get this straight. A taxpayer-funded agency is giving taxpayer money to a contractor, and the public isn't allowed to know who was paid what?
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World Cup matches were going to cost Boston taxpayers virtually nothing…until now
Today, Boston 26 argues that the city is in “jeopardy” of losing the matches unless $20 million in taxpayer money is given to them. Keep in mind that Boston 26 was first trying to demand almost $40 million but they have since brought that down to $20 million mark. But didn't Boston 26 say they wouldn't ask taxpayers for help? That everything was already in place?
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The San Francisco 49ers promise to pay for all World Cup expenses…somewhat…kind of…maybe?
Last week, the San Francisco 49ers publicly vowed to cover Santa Clara’s expenses for the World Cup games. The 49ers will use money that they received from their NFL operations to cover the costs. One estimate claims that it will cost Santa Clara about $50M to stage the games. Except, as the mayor reminded everyone, the 49ers promised to only cover all “approved costs”. That can be interpreted many ways, considering the terrible history between the 49ers and the mayor. Keep in mind that the…
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Did the cities of Fort Lauderdale & Miami actually stand up for themselves against a professional team?
When the city reminded the team of this contract agreement, Inter Miami had the nerve to ask the city to pay for the park. Why would the team do this? Especially when the lease agreement says nothing about the city paying for the public park? The team claims that during stadium negotiations, an unknown city person at some unknown time gave the team “certain agreements…but not all made it into the written contract”. After some time, the city told the team that they must build the park by July…
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The Miami Heat continue to screw over Miami-Dade County by refusing to follow through on their promised waterfront park
In 2003, a part of Parcel B required seawall work that cost $6 million to fix. How did the Miami Heat pay for this? They didn't. They gave the land back to the county, but continued “to lease it for extra parking and staging at special events”. This allowed the Heat to keep using it while being responsible for nothing. In 2020, the city decided that enough was enough. After 25 years, the city council decided to…change the name of the property from Parcel B to “Dan Paul Plaza”. They named it…
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Fort Lauderdale decides to build a previously agreed upon park and to bill Inter Miami owners
Now, Fort Lauderdale is getting ready to build a new $25 million park that will cost Inter Miami $13 million dollars (the city pays the rest) and should open by 2025. The park will include new fields for all sorts of sports and even a dog area. In addition, the city has now stopped the team from using the land for parking. The team was given a chance to pay the $1.4 million dollars in overdue building permit fees, but nothing was given, and the bills remain unpaid. Keep in mind that this is the…
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Inter Miami: We agreed to build a park? Can we have some more public money then?
Four years ago, David Beckham and his partners (Inter Miami) came to Florida wanting to build a brand new soccer stadium. They asked the city of Fort Lauderdale for $170 million in taxpayer money.
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