All Posts Tagged With: "sin tax"

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The Arena Issue

A little more than one month after the completion of the greatest season in Columbus Blue Jacket history, the team announced that it had lost over $80 million since the 02-03 season. The apparent cause of the losses is the deal that the Blue Jackets Organization has with Nationwide and the arena. Since the arena [...]

June 15th, 2009 | | 3 comments | Continued
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The Sky Is Not Falling . . .

With the revelation that the Blue Jackets have lost in the neighborhood of $80 million since 2002, and that discussions were afoot to transfer ownership of Nationwide Arena to Franklin County, utilizing a “sin tax” increase, the full range of doomsayers, conspiracy theorists and panic-mongers are emerging and forecasting imminent Armageddon at the hands of [...]

May 29th, 2009 | | 4 comments | Continued