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A separate committee of the union is pressing to qualify for November’s state ballot a voter referendum on the funding. The union’s effort to overturn the public financing at the ballot box is also moving slowly through the Nevada courts. Its petition to place a referendum on the November ballot was invalidated in November by a state judge. The union appealed to the Nevada Supreme Court, which heard oral arguments on the case April 9 but hasn’t issued a decision. That brings us back to the challenges to the Vegas stadium financing brought by the Nevada teachers. The clock is ticking on both the union’s lawsuit and its proposed ballot measures.
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The rest supposedly would come from Fisher and any other private investors he persuades to come on board. Walk across the walkway, enter the hotel and walk down the stairs. Head towards Flight across the casino passing the cashier and Public House will be on the right.
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Since being introduced last month, the street vending ordinance has received pushback from the vendor community and its allies, specifically toward what many have called arbitrary distance requirements. People, many of them street vendors, line up to comment on a street vendor ordinance during a Clark County meeting on a street vendor ordinance at the Clark County Government Center Tuesday, April 16, 2024. The Sacramento ballpark has about 14,000 seats, but it may still seem almost vacant when the A’s play there, as the average attendance at the team’s 13 home games in Oakland so far this year is 6,243, worst in the league by an unhealthy margin. The last year that average home attendance at A’s games exceeded 14,000 was 2019. At a game last May between the A’s and the Arizona Diamondbacks, only 2,064 seats were occupied, the lowest attendance for an A’s game in 44 years. Strong Public Schools Nevada, a political action committee of the Nevada State Education Assn., has filed a lawsuit questioning the public funding as unconstitutional.
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But it can’t start the process until the court resolves the validity of its petition. The team payroll last season of $43 million ranked dead last in the league, 12% of the league-leading New York Mets (who, to be fair, hardly made the most of their $334-million payroll, losing nearly 54% of their games). The best-paid player on the A’s, shortstop Aledmys Diaz, batted .229 last year and has started this season on the injured list. At issue is a measure signed last year by Nevada’s Republican governor, Joe Lombardo, authorizing $380 million in public funding for a ballpark estimated to cost $1.5 billion.
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Vendors also aren’t allowed to sell near community centers unless contracted by the county, or “the extreme outside perimeter” of any school property or child care facility. Carmen Parra, a member of the advocacy group Make the Road Nevada, told the Sun last week that many vendors she’s spoken with didn’t know about the original regulations passed in October 2023. Make the Road Nevada has taken the lead in backing street vendors since the 2023 Nevada Legislature passed Senate Bill 92 requiring licensing for vendors be handled by individual jurisdictions.
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Nevada Sen. Fabian Doñate, D-Las Vegas, who sponsored the bill, asked county commissioners Tuesday to revisit some of the rules in the proposed ordinance. He said street vending “is a cross-cultural issue that will impact all of us,” but if the ordinance was passed as is, it would be “devastating” to families. Violators may be charged with a civil penalty carrying a fine up to $500. If a vendor violates the ordinance while outside a residential zone, they could be charged with a misdemeanor and subject to up to six months in county jail.
Todd Kelly, chief operating officer of the DRG Food Group, which operates fast food restaurants like Taco Bell and Arby’s, said it was “awesome” that people were trying to make a living as street vendors, but he wanted a larger distance requirement between them and restaurants. He and many others from the fast-food industry, including some store managers who said they grew up in a family of immigrants and street vendors, urged the board to increase the distance requirement from 150 feet to 500 feet. Last fall, the county approved an initial ordinance that set a 1,500-foot distance requirement for street vendors at event venues holding more than 20,000 people, such as T-Mobile Arena and Allegiant Stadium. After more than three hours of presentations, debate and public comment, commissioners went forward with a county plan to regulate the industry, including requiring street vendors to obtain a business license. The new rules also call for street vendors to have a business license, permits from the Southern Nevada Health District and the Nevada Department of Taxation, and proof of liability insurance.
The liability insurance requirement could put many vendors, some of whom are immigrants with limited means, out of business, advocates say. The game of rent-seeking that Fisher has played with Oakland and Las Vegas is every bit as humiliating for taxpayers as the Bills and Raiders deals. It will make the A’s the most-traveled pro sports team in American history, having originated as the Philadelphia Athletics under the legendary Connie Mack in 1901 before moving to Kansas City in 1955 and Oakland in 1968, with Sacramento and Las Vegas now in its future. Last year, the New York legislature and Erie County approved subsidies totaling at least $850 million for a new stadium for the NFL‘s Buffalo Bills. The team’s owner, oil and gas tycoon Terry Pegula, is even richer than Fisher, with a net worth of $6.8 billion, according to Forbes; he’s also almost entirely a self-made man. Las Vegas is not exactly the kind of community in desperate need of another tourist draw.
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An A’s ballpark — or for that matter, the NFL Raiders’ Allegiant Stadium, where this year’s Super Bowl was held — can’t do much for a city where hotel occupancy is generally close to the highest in the nation. The longest-running melodrama in sports is less about events on the field of play than on machinations in the ownership suite of baseball’s Oakland A’s, who are close to finalizing a move to Las Vegas three or four years from now. The restaurant closed in March 2020 after the state ordered all nonessential businesses, including restaurants and casinos, to shut down to prevent the spread of COVID-19. The man said he sells products like mango, shaved ice or elote from around 7 a.m. Near Boulder Highway but has been assaulted and robbed multiple times in his years in business. He makes about $60 to $80 a day with inflation costs where he once made $180 daily, he said.
During the last Legislative Session, with important education issues outstanding,...Nevada politicians singularly focused on financing a ‘world-class’ stadium for a California billionaire. The supine political leaders of Nevada should be ashamed at sticking their constituents with a billionaire’s invoice. The lords of the MLB should be ashamed of so shabbily treating the fans who supported the Oakland A’s through four World Series titles and stuck with them until Fisher made the spectacle on the field simply unwatchable. So a sports franchise with 15 American League pennants and nine World Series titles to its name and more than 100 years of loyal fandom in three cities will continue its existence as a token of Major League Baseball’s unsavory dalliance with the gambling industry. Pegula brought the politicians to heel by threatening to move the team to Austin.
The result was the largest taxpayer handout in U.S. sports history, narrowly edging out the $750-million subsidy Nevada posted to bring the NFL Oakland Raiders to Las Vegas in 2022. Catch the sporting action on a number of huge screens at Public House which offers a menu of tasty American comfort food alongside a selection of ice cold draft beers. The menu, the same served at lunch and dinner, gives fans a look into Irvine’s travels with a focus on comfort foods.
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