So Seattle grovels once again to a cartel of wealthy owners for the chance to build yet another sports palace. We built one of them once. It was ugly, but it worked. Their sniveling forced us to blow it up and replace it with two game specific venues. Now another bunch wants one.

Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn and the sports boosters want to commit tax funds to help build a basketball stadium, create rush-hour traffic jams, and squeeze nosebleed ticket and concession prices out of our citizens. They and a few rabid fans insist on this just so they can observe a bunch of obscenely paid hobbledehoys shoot hoops from the comfort of luxury boxes paid for by political supporters.

Seattle is already saturated with pro and college sports. It seems this lunacy won’t end until the team goes cold and the owners make yet another bundle selling it to the next group of out of town tech millionaires.

Jeffrey S. Howard, Redmond