All Posts Tagged With: "National Football League"
More Eminent-Domain Bullying
The bare facts of the case are these. The N. K. Hurst Co. is a producer and national distributor of specialized dried-bean and related products. Begun 68 years ago, the family-owned business has operated successfully at its present location near downtown Indianapolis for 59 years. It employs approximately 50 people in a building on 4.2 [...]
1Nov2006 | Fredrick K. McCarthy | 1 comment | ContinuedThe NFL Oilers: A Case Study in Corporate Welfare
After more than three-and-a-half decades in the city of Houston, the National Football League’s Oilers kicked off this past season in Tennessee. The Tennessee Oilers are the result of a traumatic corporate welfare struggle in Houston, one that has left all but dead the political will to fight government handouts to million-dollar team owners and [...]
1Apr1998 | Raymond J. Keating | 1 comment | Continued-
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