Showing posts with label Miller Park. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Miller Park. Show all posts
Sunday, November 3, 2024
Friday, July 31, 2020
Brewers' home opener is postponed because of positive coronavirus tests with Cardinals
From JSOnline:
The Milwaukee Brewers' scheduled home opener Friday afternooon at Miller Park against St. Louis has been postponed because of positive coronavirus tests with the Cardinals travel party.
Jon Heyman of the MLB Network was first to report the game had been postponed because of positive tests with the Cardinals. A source confirmed that St. Louis' travel party was instructed to self-isolate in their hotel in Milwaukee.
St. Louis played in Minnesota on Tuesday and Wednesday, and was off yesterday. If the Cardinals have to remain quarantined in their hotel, it could lead to the postponement of the entire weekend series at Miller Park.
After three Miami players tested positive last Sunday morning in Philadelphia, the game against the Phillies was allowed to be played, and later several other players had positive tests, forcing the team to isolate in their hotel there. Neither the Marlins nor the Phillies have been allowed to play a game since, and MLB stepped in immediately this time to call off the Brewers-Cardinals game.
Wednesday, July 8, 2020
Miller Park board left holding an extra $4.3 million after ending regional sales tax
From JSOnline:
Approving the regional sales tax to pay for Miller Park took multiple votes by the state Senate and ended up costing one lawmaker his political career after he switched his vote in the middle of the night back in 1995.
Putting an end to the sales tax in five Milwaukee-area counties has proven almost as tough.
Members of the board for the Southeast Wisconsin Professional Baseball Park District — the landlord for the Milwaukee Brewers' retractable roof dome stadium — voted unanimously in March to end the tax. The 0.1% sales tax had been in effect in Milwaukee, Ozaukee, Washington, Waukesha and Racine counties.
But then something funny happened.
After the controversial tax was officially over, the Miller Park district received two payments for $4.3 million from the state Department of Revenue, which collected funds generated by the sales tax for the district.
This was not money the Miller Park district was expecting.
Nor does it know what to do with the unexpected windfall.
"The district doesn't want the money," said Mike Duckett, executive director of the Miller Park district.
Saturday, January 13, 2018
"Throwing Your Vote in Racine County Pays – The Curious Case of Former State Sen. George Petak , R-Racine"
"Everybody in Racine is familiar with former state Sen. George Petak , R-Racine who threw his vote to legally bind Racine County Residents to pay a never ending sales tax to fund Milwaukee County Millionaire Baseball Owners and Players; then claimed to have left Wisconsin to go to Tennessee so he could dedicate his life to helping orphans and children in foster; except to magically re-appear in Madison Wisconsin, be appointed to high level cushy State jobs at WI DFI (Department of Financial Institutions) and WHEDA (WISCONSIN HOUSING AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY), get back credits for a taxpayer funded overly generous WI Taxpayer funded State Pension and live the hedonistic lifestyle he always dreamed about; as an unelected State employee at taxpayers expense, of course."
Read more: https://arrestrecordsofracinewipublicofficials.wordpress.com/2018/01/13/the-curious-case-of-former-state-sen-george-petak-r-racine/
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