July 22, 2004

Now batting: Wichita

Okay, it's official now: Every city in the U.S. wants to build an arena. The latest is Wichita, Kansas, where voters will go to the polls in November to decide on raising sales taxes by 0.75% to fund a $141.5 million, 15,000-seat arena. (The Kansas legislature would have to also approve the plan.) Building the arena, which would apparently be home to no particular sports teams, would be, according to backer George Fahnestock, "a defining moment in the history of our city." Yeah, or words to that effect.