Read the Express-News letters to the editor for Feb. 28.
Why praise Putin?
We are the United States of America. When we face a crisis, we join together, especially when it is a threat against democracy. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is such a crisis, yet our former president, Donald Trump, is praising Putin.
I’m reminded the soccer stadium Huddleston mentions was built with the help of $5.5 million from the city of San Antonio’s 2007 bond issue. And that reminded me the Park West campus was acquired and developed with the help of $15 million from a 2008 county venue tax. Then I remembered UTSA received $10 million from the 2017 bond issue to help build the “Roadrunner Athletics Center of Excellence,” a $40.
If my math is correct, that’s $43.5 million of local taxpayer money that has been, or will be, spent on UTSA athletic facilities in less than 20 years. Which causes me to wonder,? Do San Marcos and Hays County taxpayers, for example, foot the bill for Texas State University athletic facilities? Heck, what about Trinity, St. Mary’s, Our Lady of the Lake and Texas A&M University-San Antonio?
Maybe spending millions of taxpayer dollars on facilities for UTSA athletes — facilities that most taxpayers cannot use — is normal, but it seems weird to me.
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