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This time for 62.8 million. The town of McKinney, Texas voted in favor of a bond Saturday that will allow the school district to build a $62.8 million, 12,000-seat high school football stadium. According to USA Today, that price tag would make it the most expensive high school football stadium in the country. Saturday's vote allowed the town to devote $50.3 million toward the stadium out of a new $220 million bond. The other $12.5 million for the football stadium project will come from a bond approved by the town in 2000. Although McKinney's new field might be the most expensive, it is far from the only mega-priced project in the area. The stadium will be built approximately four miles north of a $60 million football stadium which seats 18,000 in Allen, Texas. The town of Katy, Texas is currently building at $62.5 million stadium set to open in 2017. http://www.foxsports.com/nfl/story/mckinney-texas-high-school-football-new-stadium-bond-050916 Last time they did this, the thing was deemed unsafe after spending 60 million. The stadium in allen texas started cracking and developed significant structural deficiencies Good use of funds in my opinion. I wonder if this one will be structurally sound.
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*puts fingers in ears* interesting, tell me more
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May 10, 2016 12:55
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Hurrah for small government
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May 10, 2016 12:55
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A reminder that Texas gave up its independence to the US because it was broke and poorly run.
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May 10, 2016 12:59
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I lived in Allen . I still live pretty close. What I'm saying op is that I think this is really gay
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May 10, 2016 13:05
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THE DOG HOUSE posted:I lived in Allen . what was his name
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May 10, 2016 13:16
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I tried to find a video of a fat texan going YEEEHAWW while firing guns off in the air. No luck. What an age we livei n where I can't find this at ready.
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May 10, 2016 13:20
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This is the kind of news that gets my boots to a dancin' and mah guns to a blazin' YeeeHAW!
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May 10, 2016 13:20
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I was not aware Katy, Tx was in the running for overly expensive stadiums. gently caress them. Should be known as the birthplace of Shinjobi but instead people give a poo poo about some asshat who plays QB for the Bengals.
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May 10, 2016 13:20
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Good I'm glad of it.
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May 10, 2016 14:07
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Microwaves Mom posted:I tried to find a video of a fat texan going YEEEHAWW while firing guns off in the air. No luck. What an age we livei n where I can't find this at ready. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LeYktG0Ve4 ?
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May 10, 2016 14:11
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preemptive 'go gently caress yourself, idiot' to all the texans who will be drawn to this thread like flies to poo poo
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May 10, 2016 14:12
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its good that they will finally be able to play football
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May 10, 2016 14:14
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Nefarious 2.0 posted:preemptive 'go gently caress yourself, idiot' to all the texans who will be drawn to this thread like flies to poo poo thanks gerbildick
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May 10, 2016 14:16
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Parallax Scroll posted:its good that they will finally be able to play football I'm happy, for this
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May 10, 2016 14:22
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i wonder what archaeologists will say about america 1000 years from now when they keep digging up gladiatorial colosseums for literal children to train in bloodsport hahahhahahaha
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May 10, 2016 14:23
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like literally train your children to be violent morons so they can make the ncaa rich HAHHAHAHAHAHAH loving hahHAHAHHAAHHAH
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May 10, 2016 14:24
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They should fund the arts programs instead
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May 10, 2016 14:24
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town proposes building for popular activity requiring fitness socialization and hard work, here's a misanthropic group of tubby computer janitors with the hot take
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May 10, 2016 14:33
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Hector Beerlioz posted:They should fund the arts programs instead If you love the arts programs so much why don't you fund them? Put your money where your mouth is, buster.
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May 10, 2016 15:03
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Remember when that ebola outbreak happened in Texas a couple years ago and goons were all like "gently caress texas"? Well gently caress texas.
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May 10, 2016 15:09
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Hector Beerlioz posted:They should fund the arts programs instead
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May 10, 2016 15:12
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whoflungpoop posted:town proposes building for popular activity requiring fitness socialization and hard work, here's a misanthropic group of tubby computer janitors with the hot take
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May 10, 2016 15:14
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It's not a stadium, it's a CTE development center.
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May 10, 2016 15:15
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whoflungpoop posted:town proposes building for popular activity requiring fitness socialization and hard work, here's a misanthropic group of tubby computer janitors with the hot take
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May 10, 2016 15:15
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Its about time football started becoming a little more popular in Texas
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May 10, 2016 15:16
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etalian posted:It's not a stadium, it's a CTE development center. jade helm memorial stadium
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May 10, 2016 15:18
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whoflungpoop posted:town proposes building for popular activity requiring fitness socialization and hard work, here's a misanthropic group of tubby computer janitors with the hot take As a resident with kids in the school system it's surreal and creepy to see this mentioned in GBS, but any excuse to hate anything about Texas is valid here. You may also member McKinney as the site of the bikini teen beatdown party the police held last summer. For perspective, the current stadium is 54 years old. MISD bundled the new stadium and "event center" in with a lot of other improvements that the school system actually does need, and managed to knock down the tax rate by 4.5 cents--which saves $100-150 per year on a typical house here, whoopity doo--so there was no way the bond proposal wasn't going to pass even though a lot of us knew we didn't need such an ostentatious, wasteful thing. Even so it was only 62% in favor. A majority would certainly not have supported the stadium project on its own, and of course they knew that. City governments around here seem to be especially bad at blowing money on vanity projects like sports facilities and courthouses and finding weaselly ways to get them passed regardless of public opinion.
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May 10, 2016 15:35
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You can never have enough giant bowls of concrete
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May 10, 2016 15:47
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Lol probably some sweetheart building contract that an official steered to a friend or relative
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May 10, 2016 15:48
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 Here are Texas lawmakers literally having a cake party to celebrate 10 years of banning gay marriage last year. gently caress Texas. I really wish they'd just secede again. I lived in Lubbock for a while, and you'd have to pay me to live there again. And I mean good money.
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May 10, 2016 15:49
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this may seem like an extravagant waste for something as silly as high school sports, but you have to look at it as an investment in our youth. not every child can be a doctor or a scientist, especially in texas where the only science we teach is how God took a bone from adam and made a lady out of it. for some kids, the only path to success is through sports. thanks to this facility and others like it, dozens, maybe hundreds of kids will have what it takes to achieve fame and fortune, beat their fiances up pretty good, and kill themselves at the ripe old age of 45.
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May 10, 2016 15:50
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Lime Tonics posted:This time for 62.8 million. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxP442T-aZ0
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May 10, 2016 15:51
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Can we give texas back to mexico yet? I mean we have algae that makes oil, do we even need them?
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May 10, 2016 15:52
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Hopefully Zika spreads there soon so they can use their stadium to pit teams of tiny headed players against each other
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May 10, 2016 16:01
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A population of 14,000 of which 80%+ are middle-aged white people whose households make a combined income of $50k a year. Raise are taxes to build stadium for little boys please! It's noble really, realizing your life is worthless so you give money so that future generations may be happier. It's downright socialist!
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May 10, 2016 16:06
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doesn't even have a retractable roof and A/C shameful
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May 10, 2016 16:06
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fyodor posted:A population of 14,000 of which 80%+ are middle-aged white people whose households make a combined income of $50k a year. Raise are taxes to build stadium for little boys please! a society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never touchdown in
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May 10, 2016 16:10
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maybe this whole democracy thing isn't the best idea
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Bunch of weak faggots itt (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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