For all your Raleigh convention-center watchers out there, check out liberal blogger Todd Morman latest work over at his site. He examines the history of a convention-center project in Phoenix, which hasn’t exactly turned out as planned. Todd also looks at falling attendance numbers for conventions in New Orleans, one of the nation’s industry “leaders,” and defends Raleigh city councilman and center-skeptic Mike Regan from the criticism of Raleigh Mayor Charles Meeker and the left-leaning Independent Weekly newspaper. He’s right on the politics: honest left-wingers ought to be screaming bloody murder about the prospect of spending hundreds of millions of tax dollars subsidizing a private hotel and a bunch of private corporations and trade associations.