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Everyone’s Money Is No One’s Money

Monday June 18, 2012

IN my last post we examine the bankruptcy of the San Antonio Opera.

Please examine my earlier post on the San Antonio Symphony.

Then take a look at Museo Alameda

All three examples fail the Is this Probable test I mentioned in class. The great irony of the opera bankruptcy and the Symphony difficulties, is the $195 M Tobin Center. With all the money spent re vamping the munitipal auditorium, will there be any fine arts group sleft to perform there?  The Opera is out and the Symphony sells tickets but struggles.

And then there is the losses from Day Oen for Museo Alameda. Amazingly the City has continued to support it with tax dollars.

The single event planned for this year is, I am not making this up. Tequila, The Spirit of Mexico.

This idea should have been folded into the Txas Institute of Cultures, period. How much longer will the City support this failed project?

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    Luis Martinez

    Seems to me to be a case of not wanting to admit failure! I drove by the Tobin Center yesterday and the place is gutted except for the facade. Worse, no one was working on it! No accountability leads to waste and useless “stuff.”

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