I get tired of the op-eds by Barbara Hollingsworth of the Examiner
today's piece, "Mayor Fenty's April Fools Day budget," like many of the other pieces she writes, discusses what she believes is out of control government, tax incentive payments to developers as a form of graft, etc.
Hey, I don't like tax incentives either, but mostly I wish that there was an open transparent process for asking and receiving them. But...
The Examiner is owned by Philip Anschutz, who is conservative and very very rich.
He also owns the Anschutz Entertainment Group (AEG), which has its fingers in many pies, including the Staples Center in Los Angeles, home to the Los Angeles Lakers and other sports teams.
The Staples Center received:
public financing in the form of a loan, tax incentives and fee waivers worth $300 million
according to the Los Angeles Business Journal.
I'd like to see her write a column about that.
Labels: economic development, Growth Machine, media and communications, tax incentives
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