#PacificWatch: #VegasReport: Las Vegas In competition with Seattle and Mexico City for an NBA franchise. @JCBlis. LA's Sixth Street Bridge plundered of copper & What is to be done? @JCBliss
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🗓️ 15 June 2024
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#PacificWatch: #VegasReport: Las Vegas In competition with Seattle and Mexico City for an NBA franchise. @JCBlis. LA's Sixth Street Bridge plundered of copper & What is to be done? @JCBliss
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| 0:00.0 | This is CBS I on the World with John Bachelor. |
| 0:09.0 | Here's John Bachelor. |
| 0:11.0 | So the Pacific Watch with Jeff Bliss. Bachelor. that Vegas knows what it wants and it knows how to defend itself from what you'd |
| 0:24.2 | have to say is busybodies. Jeff a very good evening to you. As I understand it, |
| 0:29.2 | Vegas once a baseball stadium that's second to not in the country and it has plans it has a |
| 0:35.1 | team coming in the Oakland Hayes and it's looking for sharing the building of the |
| 0:39.7 | stadium as do other major league stadiums with either the city or the state. |
| 0:44.0 | What's the progress of that application? |
| 0:47.0 | Good evening, John. |
| 0:49.0 | The application, actually the development of the area continues on. |
| 0:53.5 | I was just in Vegas recently and you can see the work being done. |
| 0:57.0 | They're moving ahead now I'm going to bet they get it done ahead of time. |
| 1:00.0 | Now we should know that Nevada voters would have had a chance to avoid paying for the |
| 1:04.8 | stadium in Vegas but the state Supreme Court banned a referendum on an upcoming ballot |
| 1:10.5 | they said uh... you know the Nevada government agreed to pay 80 million dollars of |
| 1:15.4 | the 1.5 billion needed to move the A's to Vegas and a political action |
| 1:20.6 | committee came in and tried to throw a wrench into that saying, |
| 1:23.3 | no we need to put more money into education, but it was really an attempt by unions and |
| 1:28.4 | others to try to stop what was going on. And the state Supreme Court said said we're not going to have any of that |
| 1:33.5 | keep building we need the baseball stadium so a bunch of baseball fans on the |
| 1:37.7 | Supreme Court always wise now Vegas is is growing very quickly and very happily. |
| 1:44.7 | It needs a basketball team. |
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