July 2012

"My grandmother and grandfather would be so honored to see this," said Robbie Anderson, whose grandparents founded the hotel 100 years ago.

All five county supervisors sit on Metro's 13-person board and three of them, Supervisors Don Knabe, Michael Antonovich and Mark Ridley-Thomas, cast the dissenting votes. Knabe said the move was premature and counter to Metro's conservative fiscal policies. Ridley-Thomas said he thought voter approval was

This is really a very interesting case, Cole said. The Regents were duplicitous.