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August 23, 2004

If You Build It, They Won’t Come

…unless you give them a reason to

In November of 1999, two years after Finley Stadium opened, Stadium Corporation Chairman Frank Kinser said that, “Realistically, nobody had any experience in operating an outside facility in Chattanooga. We’re learning as we go how to be more cost effective. We are all working together for the future of Finley and its benefit to the community.”

After comments like this, obvious questions arise: If nobody in Chattanooga had experience running a facility like Finley Stadium, how were they so sure that building it would be a such a great idea? Why was it really built? And how would they know how to fix things if their plans didn’t work?

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Hardy Case Hardly A Closed Book

Suspicion has a tendency to fade unless the facts keep on trying to rear their pesky little heads.

Days after Tory Hardy was murdered after the 2003 Bessie Smith Strut, police spokesman Ed Buice said that some folks in this city were more concerned with “feelings” than they were with “facts” about the case. Chief targets of his venom were the media and Hardy family spokespeople, namely attorney John Wolfe. Former Chattanooga Police Chief Jimmie Dotson chimed in with Buice, saying he was “fed up” with the attacks on his department by people trying to use the police department for “political gain.” He said that critics needed to get out of the way and let the investigators do their jobs.

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