The massive Dallas Cowboys stadium that can hold 100,000 people, has a retractable roof and two 60-yard-long television screens took less time to build.

At $62 million — $28 million of that city’s taxpayer money through two bond issues and $14.6 million in federal funding — it’s half-again as expensive as Connie Hudson’s soccer/swimming/water park complex dream. And it’s already been declared an abject failure by many citizens tired of the delayed openings and burned out by Mobile’s build-it-and-they-will-come approach to tourism.

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(Cartoon/Laura Rasmussen) Baldwin County school children pitch into help solve a looming funding crisis.

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