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Saturday, March 04, 2006

Sonics get nothing this year

We're certainly fine with that:
The Sonics' future in Seattle was left in question Saturday after Gov. Christine Gregoire and legislative leaders announced there would be no vote in the Legislature this year on a taxpayer-funded expansion of KeyArena.

But Gregoire and lawmakers pledged to work with the team, as well as with city and county officials, to come up with a plan that might fly next year.

Gregoire and lawmakers had given the Sonics, city and county until noon Saturday to reach agreement on a funding package. They weren't able to do that.

"The time has run out," Gregoire said.
Remind us again why we need to continue bailing out professional sports teams (which, for the most part, seem to have wealthy owners) with public money?

If they can't succeed on their own, then that's too bad. It doesn't make sense to me to give the Sonics millions of dollars in public money while some people in our society are starving or don't have a place to live.

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