CARSON CITY, Nev. Gov. Joe Lombardo wants to help build Major League Baseball s smallest ballpark arguing that the worst team in baseball can boost Las Vegas, a city striving to call itself a sports mecca.
CARSON CITY, Nev. Gov. Joe Lombardo wants to help build Major League Baseball s smallest ballpark arguing that the worst team in baseball can boost Las Vegas, a city striving to call itself a sports mecca.
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The proposal to help finance a new ballpark for Major League Baseball s Athletics in Las Vegas has revived nationwide debates about public funding for private stadiums, pitting Nevada’s powerful tourism industry and labor unions against some progressive groups raising concerns about ceding tax revenue when services such as public schools are funded below the national average