One piece of news that floated out of Carson City this week told you the $1.9 billion needed to build the Raiders a new stadium in Las Vegas low-balls the real cost by about a third.
It wasn’t until the Nevada Assembly on Thursday voted on the state’s $750 million subsidy for the stadium that the Las Vegas Review-Journal broke the story that the project will need about $900 million more in cash that the state does not have to pay for transportation improvements.
Stadium backer Gov. Brian Sandoval’s people say the $900 million will go toward carpool lanes and freeway interchange projects that are already in the pipeline – as if they would have been built at some point anyway.