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Stadiums: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
John Oliver's Last Week Tonight segment on cities spending public money on privately owned sports stadiums, including how tax-exempt municipal bonds subsidize them.
Why HN readers recommended it
Pointed to in debates over stadium subsidies as a persuasive case that cities should not pay for stadiums.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- LastWeekTonight
- Topic
- stadium subsidies
- Format
- commentary
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 3
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2016–2022
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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John Oliver already settled this in 2015. After watching it, it's pretty clear that cities should not pay for stadiums. [VIDEO]
antattack on Hacker News · 2022-03
In Cities should not pay for new stadiumsJohn Oliver did a good piece on this as well and how crazy it is that the public pays so much for these things: [VIDEO]
joshstrange on Hacker News · 2016-02
In Why a city should not build a stadium for an NFL team
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