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  1. https://www.nytimes.com/video/world/middleeast/100000010468254/gaza-strikes-israel-ceasefire.html
  2. If the Hemisfair TIRZ is expanded, you're looking at the potential for a forever loophole for private developers to spend $1.4 billion on projects virtually anywhere in central SA, without any mechanism of accountability. Nobody to blame if the promise of revitalization goes unfulfilled. The argument is that the private developers were going to spend this $1b, regardless, and should not be given a tax break that was intended to incentivize deals that otherwise wouldn't have been made. Those projects need to be taxed. https://www.sacurrent.com/news/cityscrapes/cityscrapes-project-marvels-open-ended-term-sheet-will-cost-every-san-antonio-property-taxpayer/ Here are some more concrete problems: The only specific development commitment outline in the document calls for “a boutique hotel meeting the NBA’s requirements for visiting teams.” The $500 million doesn’t have to come just from the Spurs. It can also come from unspecified “private developers.” Same thing with the balance of $900 million. Not necessarily from the Spurs, just from “private developers.” They could be any developer building in the area defined by the term sheet. And that area doesn’t have to be in the immediate vicinity of the new arena, convention center and the Alamodome — defined as the “sports and entertainment district.” The Hemisfair TIRZ goes from Commerce Street to the north to Lavaca Street beyond César E. Chávez Blvd. to the south, from I-37 on the east all the way to Navarro Street on the west. and its boundaries could change in the future (and City Council has a history of changing them since the TIRZ was first conceived in 1999) The term sheet also doesn’t define when the period for the new development starts. Would it include the longstanding but unrealized plan for converting the former CPS Energy headquarters on Navarro to a hotel? the estimated $750M for the city’s plan for a new convention center hotel on the site of the SAWS chilled water plant between Commerce and Market Streets?
  3. Graham Platner is badass af and I want him to be the next Senate majority leader
  4. I must have missed the Wisner injury. Was it the fumble at the endzone?
  5. Just run the ball. That's all they need to do. How fucking stupid are you Sark???
  6. Back in the day it'd've been swept under the rug
  7. I'm glad you didn't have to watch the semifinal last season
  8. Sark is so stupid. Just run the goddamned ball
  9. Ballgame. 23-21 Vaqueros lose
  10. "they called that pass incomplete" no shit
  11. fuck this is sloppy
  12. Lamar drills a long FG with a 1:03 to go. Cardinals up 23-21. RGV gonna need to find points
  13. Vaqueros score again! They lead in Beaumont 21-20 with 9:38 to go
  14. Marburger hits paydirt early in the 4th quarter. 20-14.
  15. I thought the early setback would be the receivers getting hurt but maybe piggy can do something
  16. they deserve to feel the sting of elimination
  17. I think if they win big 12 it would be at a bowl site, like with asu.
  18. I'm sort of rooting for tceh because it would be fun to knock them out of the playoffs
  19. Vaqueros down at the half on the road in Beaumont. 20-7 let's see what Coach Bush can cook up
  20. This is how you beat fascism. By following the rules.
  21. Some of you guys' feeds are so far ahead of mine. Damn spoilers.
  22. They're supposed to be SEC. They're supposed to be SEC. They're supposed to be SEC. They're supposed to be SEC.
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