Recent content by Goliath

You hear it all the time that every vote matters. But voter turnout is going to be so low it will matter this time. If you live in Bexar county, are on this site, and support the arena you need to go vote bc it’s going to matter. I early voted and it was like 5 minutes in and out. If you are...

I know it also sounds stupid, and shouldn’t have anything to do with it, but I think if the Spurs do well the next couple of weeks it will help a lot. I know three people that were pro arena but didn’t seem terribly motivated to vote who went and voted yes Thursday after wembys big game...

It’s going to come down to who mobilizes and gets out and votes. It’s all bonds and propositions, no elected officials on the ballot, which always has next to no turn out. I read that after 3 days of early voting only 20,000 votes were cast. Social media comments makes it look like it’s going...

My understanding is the hotel tax goes up .25% and car rental does not go up at all.

The tweet is mixing up funding mechanisms. It’s not the hotel tax it’s the money from the finance zone that would go to the state not the city of the arena falls thru

I’ve lived in San Antonio for over 30 years. If the Spurs were to leave San Antonio, in 10 years we would be a lot closer to a giant Laredo with a Sea World than even a city like Austin

The unfortunate thing is how the discourse has changed from an entertainment district with an arena as an anchor tenant to help revitalize downtown to solely a spurs arena issue. A change that happened when the old mayor left and the new wack job came in. San Antonio’s economy is centered...

I live in SA. There is a vocal (hopefully minority) that would be opposed to this regardless of what the plan was. Tim, Tony and Manu could come out and say they were funding it and a lot of dumbasses here would complain that they aren’t donating the money to charity or how it’s a bad thing...