Reality Check: Missouri & Kansas Economic Border War Truce Broken

No matter what happens with the teams . . . Here's the reality . . . 

KANSAS HAS CLEARLY SHOWN BAD FAITH FOR AN ECONOMIC BORDER WAR TRUCE!!!

The upside here is that reprisals should hopefully focus on keeping the Chiefs & Royals given very dismal economic development in the Sunflower State overall in addition to their tragic population numbers. 

Still . . . 

Upcoming STAR bond talk is mostly an array of sketchy promise and the only thing we know for certain is that promises from politicos shouldn't be taken very seriously. 

More context . . .

An age-old rivalry between Missouri and Kansas could become the battleground in a tug-of-war for Kansas City’s NFL and MLB teams.

The Kansas legislature starts a special session on Tuesday. They hope to issue bonds that would be paid off with money from sports betting, the Kansas Lottery, and tax dollars generated in and around the new venues.

The effort could break an “uneasy truce” (as described by Hanna) that was reached in 2019, after Missouri and Kansas spent “hundreds of millions” to attract businesses to one state or the other.

Read more via www.TonysKansasCity.com link . . .

Missouri, Kansas close in on tug of war for Chiefs, Royals

A border war might determine the future home of the Chiefs, and the Royals.

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