This is how one reports on a baseball stadium deal involving public money — from all sides, a tad skeptically. Not the on-the-left pom-pom, on-the-right pom-pom cheerleading we have received from the Uptown paper of record on the $34 million Uptown baseball stadium in waiting.
In the Winston-Salem case, note how the baseball team owner’s risk exposure and the long-term impact on city finances seem to merit some attention. Not in Charlotte. The only question has been if the numbers can “work” — if the deal can win approval, not if it is actually a good deal for taxpayers.
Here’s a radical idea: Stop trying to be the paper of the Carolinas and be the paper for Charlotte — all of Charlotte — for a change.
