Friday roundup: KC pol seeks to revive sales tax hike for Chiefs only, A’s stadium plans still extremely ¯\_ (ツ)_/¯

This has been a week, for a lot of reasons as well as my trip yesterday to an unseasonably hot Philadelphia to talk with city council staff and community members about the 76ersmuch-unloved arena plans, so I’m declaring editorial privilege to go straight to an abbreviated news roundup:

That’s all I have in me today — if I missed anything, feel free to bring it up in comments. Have a good weekend, and try to stay cool!

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5 comments on “Friday roundup: KC pol seeks to revive sales tax hike for Chiefs only, A’s stadium plans still extremely ¯\_ (ツ)_/¯

  1. Is it really “a game of political football” when pretty much every political entity is on the same team, saying, “nah, not really interested in the Bears stadium proposal.”

  2. Why did it take 5 years to decide to demolish RFK? There was no use for it. They were never going to renovate it for anything. They should have had a memorabilia company strip out seats and anything else with value to collectors a long time ago.

    Heck I don’t even know why they put out the fire a couple of years ago. They should have let it burn down and save themselves the trouble.

    1. The seats and turnstiles are sold online.

      It took a while to tear it down because there isn’t a definite plan for what to do with the site so there was no urgency. Congress only recently agreed to let DC redevelop it.

      I think they also hoped to squeeze some more events out of it, but Covid put a big dent in the available events for two years.

      Also, they had to convince everyone in the area that they could knock it down safely.

      1. They still have to maintain it and provide security while its still standing. If they tear it down they don’t have to maintain it. Just put grass and leave it as a park.

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