Stadium sales tax extension rejected by voters in Jackson County

Stadium sales tax extension rejected by voters in Jackson County

Voters in Jackson County have rejected a 40-year extension of a 3/8th-cent sales tax. The extension would have helped fund a new downtown stadium for the Kansas City Royals and maintain and repair Arrowhead Stadium. With 100 percent of precincts reporting, voters rejected Question 1 by a margin of 58-42 percent. Over 78,000 voters said … Read more

CBS News poll: Trump leads in Iowa and New Hampshire, where retail campaigning hasn’t closed the gap

CBS News poll: Trump leads in Iowa and New Hampshire, where retail campaigning hasn’t closed the gap

The conventional wisdom is that retail politics — the door-knocking, hand-shaking grassroots campaigning for months before the primaries — make Iowa and New Hampshire different from what we see nationally. And like a lot of conventional wisdom these days, that’s looking outdated. Today, national frontrunner and former President Donald Trump also leads the Republican primary … Read more