The push for a new Islanders arena needs more cowbell

An election on a Monday???

 

THANK GOD there still are some sensible people around. If I had a drink in my hand, I'd offer a toast to the voters and their abundance of common sense.

 

I haven't followed this closely

Is Brooklyn an option? Can the Rangers prevent them from moving there?

 

The proponents were hoping the opposition wouldn't notice. Obviosly, it didn't work.

 

Agreed. Nassau County has some of the nation's highest property taxes. Taxpayers should not be funding arenas and stadiums. Owners have plenty of money that they'd otherwise waste on some free-agent boondoogle. Build your own.

 

I don't know how realistic it is, but the territorial rights were modified in the mid-'80s allowing the Islanders to move into Brooklyn or Queens.

 

I read a development agreement once for a minor league stadium in California and the developer got 50 cents on every dollar collected on parking tickets around the proposed stadium even though the developer was not doing anything to write/enforce the tickets.

That little snippet reminds me to never, ever support a publicly funded stadium.