"I feel like Jay-Z in the States," Arenas told the crowd.
The results are promising and suggest that the state arena for climate and energy policy is evolving quickly and constructively toward alternatives that reduce conflict.
Some suggest that it was a tactical decision on Ms. Whitman's part to remain noncommittal on the future of the state-owned arena, which has been subsidized by the state at a cost of $60 million a year.
Hanging over the entire process is a renewed threat that the Meadowlands redevelopment plan -- which was prodded by the New Jersey Nets' and Devils' decision to move from the Continental Arena to a proposed state-supported arena in Newark -- would become mired once again in the state's political wars between cities and suburbs.
The Norfolk State basketball arena, Joseph G. Echols Memorial Hall, is named for the former Norfolk State coach and athletic director who was a native of Englewood, N.J.
The event — which took place in an antiquated state-owned arena — siphoned scarce resources from strapped law enforcement agencies and Bay Area medical centers, at a growing expense of hundreds of thousands dollars, some of it borne by taxpayers.
(The court installed in the Boise State basketball arena for this event is a more muted shade of blue than the one on the football field across the parking lot).
In what was clearly the state banqueting arena, though it was outside – fountains, huge screens, a stage built around a swimming pool – we were seated within feet of the presidential table.
If the protests are strong and fundamentally oriented, the conflicts take place mainly in state field and discursive arenas.
But this slick middle state between modern arena rock and smooth jazz isn't quite convincing.
The rock group Deep Purple, which has a loyal following in the former Soviet republics, are also playing at the state-owned Minsk Arena on Sunday.
