The Lubbock Expo Center was supposed to be the “answer” to a lack of a place for rodeo and other “dirt” events. It quickly grew into something bigger, and that’s probably its downfall.
I’m very surprised that I was able to call up the word “boondoggle” and its meaning in my vocabulary. When I researched the word, it was spot on for a situation we’re now facing:
a wasteful and worthless project undertaken for political, corporate, or personal gain, typically a government project funded by taxpayers-Dictionary.com…