Commentary: Stadium’s blingy entrance will be new, but making the public pay for it is the same old

By: Hugh Jackson

Outlets: Nevada Current

Published: September 4, 2026

Words: 1,184

Last Updated: 2 hours, 7 minutes ago

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The movers and shakers and elbow-rubbers on the Las Vegas Stadium Authority this week perfunctorily rubber-stamped another $75 million of public funding to build a new entrance to the Las Vegas NFL stadium that will include, among other things, a station for Elon Musk’s preposterous tunnels (though perhaps surprisingly, not a ballroom).

Discussion from authority members was confined to gushing about how glorious the stadium — and Southern Nevada’s spectacle-based …

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