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MILLER PARK: IS THAT ALL?(EDITORIAL)
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The Capital Times (Madison, WI)
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April 14, 2001
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Copyright informationCOPYRIGHT 2001 Capital Newspapers. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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Now that we have seen Miller Park under actual, even thrilling, game conditions, it is time to put the taxpayers' new baseball stadium into some kind of perspective.
That is something that has been mighty hard to find amid all the sheer tonnage of newsprint and breathless hour after hour of broadcast news devoted to declaring our new $400 million ballpark really nice. We ought to be able to throw up a pretty nice shack for $400 million. What's so remarkable or even newsworthy about that?
Even more important than the enormous financial cost of this public project have been the enduring human and political costs. In the end, the taxpayers may be the ones who got off the ...
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