hennepin county board of commissioners votes 4-3 on stadium tax [mpr]
i believe that's the last vote, so now it's really, really going to happen. unless my latest favorite conspiracy theory turns out to be true: that nobody has actually figured out how to cram a stadium into that little parking lot. whoops.
http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2006/08/29/stadiumtaxvote/
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