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MAYOR'S BALLPARK PLAN IN MINNEAPOLIS GETS "COOL REACTION"

          Minneapolis Mayor Sharon Sayles Belton's "preference
     for a metro-wide sales tax to help pay for a Twins ballpark
     drew cool reaction Thursday from legislators, including some
     from Minneapolis," according to Jay Weiner of the
     Minneapolis STAR TRIBUNE.  While there was "general praise
     for her plan to use public and private money to clear and
     prepare land along the Mississippi River for a new ballpark,
     there also was firm opposition to her preference that a
     seven-county half-cent sales tax be used to pay for
     constructing the stadium as well as financing mass transit
     and expanding the Minneapolis Convention Center."  MN House
     Speaker Phil Carruthers stated his "opposition" to the
     sales-tax plan, but will name a 16-member legislative task
     force to study a stadium finance plan (STAR TRIBUNE, 6/27).
          SHOWN UP? A STAR TRIBUNE editorial notes that Sayles
     Belton's stadium plan "had to have been influenced by the
     celebrating" in St. Paul over landing an NHL expansion team. 
     The "contrast between the energetic leadership that had just
     won St. Paul [an NHL] franchise and the indifference, even
     antagonism, among Minneapolis' elected representatives
     toward keeping major-league baseball in the city had become
     not just stark but embarrassing" (STAR TRIBUNE, 6/27).

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