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Kansas City Chiefs fans gather outside Arrowhead Stadium before a NFL football game against the Oakland Raiders Sunday, Sept. 20, 2009 in Kansas City, Mo. Voter rejection of a stadium sales tax plan for the Kansas City Royals and Chiefs has raised questions about what happens next. (AP Photo/Ed Zurga, File)

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When voters say 'no' to new stadiums, what do professional sports teams do next?
By DAVID A. LIEB - Associated Press
Wed,04/03/24-11:02PM , 164 Reads
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Like a loss in the playoffs, voter rejection of a stadium tax plan will force the Kansas City Royals and Chiefs to reevaluate their approach.
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Voters fill in their ballots at at Precinct 5 at Wood Activity & Therapeutic Center in Clinton, Miss., during the general election, Nov. 7, 2023. Since most Americans last voted for Congress, thousands of people have been added to certain voting districts — and subtracted from others — under new political maps enacted following court rulings. (Barbara Gauntt/The Clarion-Ledger via AP, file)

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Court cases lead to new voting districts in some states. Could it affect control of Congress?
By DAVID A. LIEB - Associated Press
Tue,02/06/24-8:53AM , 111 Reads
Since most Americans last voted for Congress, thousands of people have been added to certain voting districts — and subtracted from others — under new political maps enacted following court rulings.
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Missouri state Sen. Bill Eigel, a Republican member of the state Freedom Caucus, waives a paper containing criticisms of the Freedom Caucus that had been prepared by Republican Senate leaders for a press conference on Thursday, Jan. 25, 2024, at the state Capitol in Jefferson City, Mo. Republican leaders had left the paper on a lectern which the Freedom Caucus then used for its own press conference. (AP Photo/David A. Lieb)

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Some Republican leaders are pushing back against the conservative Freedom Caucus in statehouses
By DAVID A. LIEB - Associated Press
Tue,01/30/24-11:26PM , 161 Reads
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — On the first day of Missouri's new legislative session, Senate President Pro Tem Caleb Rowden tried to cajole colleagues into congeniality with a rhetorical question: “Will we focus on principled progress or political pandemonium?”
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Fans are pictured outside American Family Field before a baseball game between the Milwaukee Brewers and the Chicago Cubs, April 12, 2021, in Milwaukee. Proposals for new and improved sports stadiums are proliferating across the U.S. — and could come with a hefty price tag for taxpayers. (AP Photo/Morry Gash, File)

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Key takeaways from AP’s look at the emerging wave of sports construction in the US
By DAVID A. LIEB - Associated Press
Sat,12/23/23-12:08AM , 138 Reads
A new round of stadium construction is underway for professional sports teams across the U.S., and taxpayers will be helping to pay the multi-billion-dollar tab.
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