The New York city council debate over whether to continue Madison Square Garden’s $11-million-a-year exemption from property taxes – which was supposed to end in 1992, but somebody forgot to write that into the legislation – has not exactly covered … Continue reading
I’m going to be on KPFA-FM in the Bay Area tomorrow morning at 7:30 am, discussing the proposed San Francisco 49ers football stadium in Santa Clara. Those out of reach of KPFA’s signal (like me) can listen live via the … Continue reading
My latest Metro New York op-ed (at 400 words apiece, they’re really more op-aphorisms) takes a shot at digging beneath the surface of baseball’s steroid scandal, or at least coming up with some new topics of conversation aside from whether … Continue reading
The wheels of academic presses grind slow but fine, but I’m very pleased to announce that the newly revised and expanded edition of Field of Schemes is scheduled for release by University of Nebraska Press/Bison Books on April 1. (Pre-ordering … Continue reading
The media frenzy over those Yankees hotel-room aliases continues, as I make two radio appearances tomorrow to discuss the pressing question of why Jorge Posada goes by “Ricky Ricardo”: Peter Greenberg Worldwide, syndicated/XM, 10:50 am Eastern The Roy Green Show, … Continue reading
And because apparently nobody can get enough of those Yankees hotel room aliases, here’s more on those Yankees hotel room aliases, this time in quiz form. The first villagevoice.com reader to successfully identify all four mystery Yankees—heck, the first to … Continue reading
More goodies from the Yankees’ document dump, though this time they’re more amusing than outrageous. Among the paperwork the team sent over to the city as part of its “stadium planning” claims is a crib sheet listing players’ hotel-room aliases: … Continue reading
If you thought last year’s news that the New York Yankees had billed taxpayers for their own stadium lobbyists was outrageous, then … well, that was outrageous, but this is pretty nuts, too: New documents show the team subsequently billed … Continue reading
When the Yankees got permission to build their $1.3 billion stadium complex in a Bronx park, the city promised to provide interim park space for local residents to use until new permanent parks are ready. How’s that working out? About … Continue reading
The public cost of the Yankees’ new “privately funded” stadium goes … you didn’t really think I was going to say “down,” did you? One of the enduring questions about the new Yankee Stadium, now rising like a supersized doppelganger … Continue reading