It will bring additional dangerous air pollution, stir more antagonism between the state and the capital city and add more economic favoritism for a select few. It is yet another one-sided mistake from our dangerously unbalanced Legislature.
It follows the pattern of the state prison disaster. That legislative mistake will cost taxpayers $1 billion before it is completed; we will end up with fewer beds than we have at the old prison; and operating costs will exceed current costs, partly because fewer beds at the new prison will force the state to shift even more prisoners to county jails, where costs are excessive, conditions are often marginal, and rehabilitation is neglected.