{"id":79019,"date":"2015-08-12T11:19:41","date_gmt":"2015-08-12T16:19:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=79019"},"modified":"2015-08-12T13:07:36","modified_gmt":"2015-08-12T18:07:36","slug":"news-bucks-arena-clear-hurdle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=79019","title":{"rendered":"New Bucks&#8217; arena clears hurdle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/MilwaukeeBucksNewArena.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-74143\" alt=\"MilwaukeeBucksNewArena\" src=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/MilwaukeeBucksNewArena-300x202.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/MilwaukeeBucksNewArena-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/MilwaukeeBucksNewArena-431x291.jpg 431w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/MilwaukeeBucksNewArena-259x175.jpg 259w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/MilwaukeeBucksNewArena.jpg 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>WEST ALLIS, Wis. (AP) &#8211; Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker has signed a bill that commits $250 million in taxpayer money to pay for a new arena for the NBA&#8217;s Milwaukee Bucks.<\/p>\n<p>The presidential candidate signed the measure into law Wednesday at the Wisconsin State Fair Park, surrounded by team officials, state lawmakers and others.<\/p>\n<p>Taxpayers ultimately will pay about $400 million, including interest, over the next two decades. Current and former team owners will spend another $250 million on the arena and keep the Bucks from leaving the state.<\/p>\n<p>The deal cleared the Republican-controlled Legislature with bipartisan support.<\/p>\n<p>Opponents argued taxpayer money should not go toward building an arena for a privately owned sports franchise. But Walker and supporters say it will cost taxpayers more to lose the team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WEST ALLIS, Wis. (AP) &#8211; Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker has signed a bill that commits $250 million in taxpayer money to pay for a new arena for the NBA&#8217;s Milwaukee Bucks. The presidential candidate signed the measure into law Wednesday at the Wisconsin State Fair Park, surrounded by team officials, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":79028,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=79019"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79019\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79021,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79019\/revisions\/79021"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/79028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}