Stadium delays stir frustration on city council

(By Laura Graff, Winston-Salem Journal) - Three months after the Winston-Salem City Council voted to contribute another $15.7 million in financial help to the embattled downtown baseball stadium, the financing deals haven't yet closed and construction has not resumed.

And with election season under way -- and most of the council members facing challengers -- they are unhappy with the delay.

"I think we're extremely frustrated that after taking what I would call a very controversial vote, that it has now been three months," said Robert Clark, who represents the city's West Ward and who is running unopposed in the November election. "Every time we jump one hurdle, there always seems to be one more, and that's what's frustrating."