Here's something you might be interested in.
Ask a Hipster — Advice you didn't know you needed
Big Screen — Movie commentary
Blurt — Music's inside track
Booze News — San Diego spirits
Classical Music — Immortal beauty
Classifieds — Free and easy
Cover Stories — Front-page features
Drinks All Around — Bartenders' drink recipes
Excerpts — Literary and spiritual excerpts
Feast! — Food & drink reviews
Feature Stories — Local news & stories
Fishing Report — What’s getting hooked from ship and shore
From the Archives — Spotlight on the past
Golden Dreams — Talk of the town
The Gonzo Report — Making the musical scene, or at least reporting from it
Letters — Our inbox
Movies@Home — Local movie buffs share favorites
Movie Reviews — Our critics' picks and pans
Musician Interviews — Up close with local artists
Neighborhood News from Stringers — Hyperlocal news
News Ticker — News & politics
Obermeyer — San Diego politics illustrated
Outdoors — Weekly changes in flora and fauna
Overheard in San Diego — Eavesdropping illustrated
Poetry — The old and the new
Reader Travel — Travel section built by travelers
Reading — The hunt for intellectuals
Roam-O-Rama — SoCal's best hiking/biking trails
San Diego Beer — Inside San Diego suds
SD on the QT — Almost factual news
Sheep and Goats — Places of worship
Special Issues — The best of
Street Style — San Diego streets have style
Surf Diego — Real stories from those braving the waves
Theater — On stage in San Diego this week
Tin Fork — Silver spoon alternative
Under the Radar — Matt Potter's undercover work
Unforgettable — Long-ago San Diego
Unreal Estate — San Diego's priciest pads
Your Week — Daily event picks
Local tourism rose in year without Chargers
U-T admits that economists were right
Qualcomm Stadium
The Union-Tribune admitted this morning (January 14) that those "pointy-headed, sissy" economists were right all along: the San Diego economy remained strong during the year that the Chargers were gone.
Mark Fabiani
Dean Spanos
From the mid-1990s to last year, the U-T, radio and television stations, the hotel lobbyists, and others vehemently argued that the Chargers and Padres were big stimulants to the local economy and deserved huge public subsidies. In my U-T and Reader columns, I regularly interviewed economists who said that was a bunch of hooey.
This morning, the U-T, tail wagging between its legs, admitted it was a bunch of hooey. Hotel occupancy has risen in the year the Chargers were gone. Economists always said that few people came from out of town to watch games. There were a few exceptions: Los Angelenos who came down to watch the Dodgers play, got drunk, and stayed overnight.
Also, in 2016 when Dean Spanos and Mark Fabiani were doing their darnedest to alienate San Diegans so they would lose the election and be free to move to L.A., out-of-towners came to San Diego to see their teams play the Chargers because they could get cheap tickets in good seats at the then-named Qualcomm Stadium.
The U-T noted this morning that 2017 hotel occupancy on the weekends the Chargers played in 2016 dropped. Of course. That’s because 2016 numbers were artificially inflated because of those out-of-towners taking advantage of local hostility against the Chargers.
The U-T wept for certain restaurants and bars that lost business because the Chargers departed. But the U-T admitted that other restaurants and bars made up the difference. The economists were saying all along that the money spent before, during, and after sports events was money that would have been spent elsewhere in the absence of games. It’s called the substitution effect. The spending of local money is just rearranged.
The Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis published a poll of economists in May 2017. A whopping 86 percent of economists said that local and state governments in the U.S. should eliminate subsidies of professional sports franchises.
In every city considering a subsidy for a pro sports team, there is one big problem: the media. Newspapers, TV, and radio stations almost always honk their horns in favor of the subsidy. That’s because the media make a bundle of money from sports. I will bet that advertising in the U-T sports section has declined, perhaps sharply, since the Chargers left. In short, mainstream media have a vested interest in government subsidizing pro sports teams. The media noise drowns out common sense and economists’ intelligent analyses.
Here's something you might be interested in.
Local tourism rose in year without Chargers
U-T admits that economists were right
Local tourism rose in year without Chargers
U-T admits that economists were right
Qualcomm Stadium
The Union-Tribune admitted this morning (January 14) that those "pointy-headed, sissy" economists were right all along: the San Diego economy remained strong during the year that the Chargers were gone.
Mark Fabiani
Dean Spanos
From the mid-1990s to last year, the U-T, radio and television stations, the hotel lobbyists, and others vehemently argued that the Chargers and Padres were big stimulants to the local economy and deserved huge public subsidies. In my U-T and Reader columns, I regularly interviewed economists who said that was a bunch of hooey.
This morning, the U-T, tail wagging between its legs, admitted it was a bunch of hooey. Hotel occupancy has risen in the year the Chargers were gone. Economists always said that few people came from out of town to watch games. There were a few exceptions: Los Angelenos who came down to watch the Dodgers play, got drunk, and stayed overnight.
Also, in 2016 when Dean Spanos and Mark Fabiani were doing their darnedest to alienate San Diegans so they would lose the election and be free to move to L.A., out-of-towners came to San Diego to see their teams play the Chargers because they could get cheap tickets in good seats at the then-named Qualcomm Stadium.
The U-T noted this morning that 2017 hotel occupancy on the weekends the Chargers played in 2016 dropped. Of course. That’s because 2016 numbers were artificially inflated because of those out-of-towners taking advantage of local hostility against the Chargers.
The U-T wept for certain restaurants and bars that lost business because the Chargers departed. But the U-T admitted that other restaurants and bars made up the difference. The economists were saying all along that the money spent before, during, and after sports events was money that would have been spent elsewhere in the absence of games. It’s called the substitution effect. The spending of local money is just rearranged.
The Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis published a poll of economists in May 2017. A whopping 86 percent of economists said that local and state governments in the U.S. should eliminate subsidies of professional sports franchises.
In every city considering a subsidy for a pro sports team, there is one big problem: the media. Newspapers, TV, and radio stations almost always honk their horns in favor of the subsidy. That’s because the media make a bundle of money from sports. I will bet that advertising in the U-T sports section has declined, perhaps sharply, since the Chargers left. In short, mainstream media have a vested interest in government subsidizing pro sports teams. The media noise drowns out common sense and economists’ intelligent analyses.
Comments