It’s unlike any other stadium. Because it’s under the Los Angeles Airport flight path, it’s mostly underground, and fans climb down to their seats. The end zones are open to ocean breezes. The roof is a giant TV screen. It has a lake. But more than anything, it proves there’s[...]
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May 9th, 2020 - 4:49 pm § in Misc.
How to fill a baseball stadium with fans in the age of coronavirus
The South Koreans nailed it. Read story here. [...]
Celebrating Jewish Survival in Hitler’s Stadium!
Jewish Olympics’ kick off at the Berlin amphitheater Hitler built Under watchful police guard, thousands of Jewish athletes from around the globe launch first European Maccabi Games in Berlin since World War II The opening ceremony of the European Maccabi Games in Berlin, a first since World War I[...]
September 20th, 2013 - 4:02 am § in Misc.
A Miracle At the New Husky Stadium
According to Bloomberg News: The University of Washington had been playing football in horseshoe-shaped Husky Stadium since 1920. The vista from the 72,500-seat venue, the largest in the Pacific Northwest, includes Lake Washington, Mount Rainier and downtown Seattle.[...]
April 20th, 2012 - 4:17 am § in Misc.
If Husky Stadium is such a good idea, why not go all the way and create Husky University?
Defenders of the UW’s new 1/4 billion dollar football stadium (added to the 1 billion Seattle spent for Seahawks Stadium) claim that this public money is well spent because it creates construction jobs. I do not see how this can be true. There is a huge difference between spending public dolla[...]
UW borrows 200 million to build stadium, Berkeley borrows 7 million to set up online classes
(Berkeley) officials … said on Friday that finding enough outside support had been a challenge. The university has secured the option to borrow $7-million to help pay for the project and may spend $4-million to $7-million of that money over the next several years, he said. Meantime .. the UW[...]
November 24th, 2010 - 12:05 am § in Misc.
UW Faculty Council Chair Defends Stadium
Letter from William Rorabaugh (AAUP Listserv ay UW) Colleagues – A couple of points. First, revenue bonds have long been used by UW to build facilities. Parking structures are built with bonds to be paid off with future parking revenues. The Med School K-Wing’s research space was b[...]
December 27th, 2022 - 4:40 pm § in Law and Courts, Politics
Whitmer kidnap plotter gets 16 years
Adam Fox, 39, described as “co-leader” of a rightwing plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, dodged a life sentence but will spend 16 years in prison. Prosecutors portrayed Fox as a dangerous terrorist, but a federal judge questioned whether he has the brains to be a leader, and [...]
January 18th, 2022 - 3:41 pm § in Law and Courts
The cops who couldn’t shoot straight
Gunfire broke out at a high school football game in a Pennsylvania town on August 27, 2021. It was a gunfight between two teens. Three officers patrolling the stadium returned fire when a couple of the rounds came in their direction. Rather randomly, it seems; they “discharged their weapons in[...]
December 22nd, 2021 - 11:07 pm § in Environment
Ruining our national parks
Many of America’s most magnificent tracts of real estate are preserved as national parks and monuments. The crowds have never been bigger. The Covid-19 pandemic drove people denied admittance to theaters, stadiums, and shows into the Great Outdoors. It’s not pretty. “The hey-let’[...]