Argenta News turns a jaundiced eye to Mayor Pat Hays’ recent wheeling and dealing in real estate. He announced this week that he’s got a buyer for 20 acres and the big, old Baptist Memorial Hospital for $200,000. It’s a good deal, he says. This is the same guy who pronounced the city had made a swell deal to buy the ratty old Checkmate club, a two-story building sitting on a half-acre, for $330,000.

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