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Encourage Bottom-Up Redevelopment: Reason Saves Cleveland With Drew Carey, Episode 5

Thu, 18 Mar 2010 07:00:00 EDT

Cleveland has spent billions on big-ticket urban redevelopment efforts including heavily subsidized sports stadiums and convention centers that have utterly failed to revitalize the city’s economy. Should the city be pouring even more money into and pinning yet higher hopes on long-odds mega-projects? Or should they realize that bottom-up projects driven by the actual residents and private-sector investors are the best was to build a vibrant city for the long haul?

Reason Saves Cleveland with Drew Carey is written and produced by Paul Feine; camera and editing by Roger Richards and Alex Manning; narrated by Nick Gillespie; music by the Cleveland band Cats on Holiday. This is the fifth of six episodes that will air March 15-19, 2010.

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Golf: The Solution to Juvenile Delinquency

paul.feine@reason.tv (Paul Feine) — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT

The Justice Department is attempting to help troubled teens by doling out money to First Tee--a golf program for kids--and other organizations with strong political connections. ABC News invesigates.

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Take Us Out of the Ball Game: Are sports subsidies worth it?

dan.hayes@reason.org (Dan Hayes) — Fri, 23 May 2008 15:00:00 EDT

It's a great time to be a sports fan: The NBA playoffs are shaping up, the NHL playoffs are underway, and the baseball season is young enough that followers of every team can still dream about making it to the World Series.

But as Major League Baseball's Washington Nationals—a team that surely is not going to the October Classic any time soon—eases into its brand-spanking-new-and-massively-expensive stadium, reason.tv asks the question: Are publicly financed stadiums and other sports subsidies really worth the cost to taxpayers?