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Home • Missouri Independent [Unofficial]Apr 17

Inside Kansas City’s $600 million bet on a downtown Royals ballpark

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Inside Kansas City’s $600 million bet on a downtown Royals ballpark • Missouri Independent

Kansas City leaders are bidding to retain the Royals at a new downtown stadium two years after Jackson County voters overwhelmingly rejected a sales-tax-funded ballpark in the Crossroads. Not surprisingly, a familiar fight about taxpayer-subsidized stadiums has roared back to life. Kansas City’s Finance Department presented the plan on Tuesday to the Finance, Governance and […]

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Home • Missouri Independent [Unofficial]Mar 30

With Sam Graves retiring, Missouri stands to lose a key power broker in Washington

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With Sam Graves retiring, Missouri stands to lose a key power broker in Washington • Missouri Independent

Sam Graves’ retirement marked the exit of one of the few Missouri politicians in Washington who had turned time in office into real institutional power.

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