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FILE – Fans cheer at Arrowhead Stadium during the first half of an NFL football game between the Kansas City Chiefs and the Detroit Lions, Sept. 7, 202, in Kansas City, Mo. The Kansas Legislature’s top leaders endorsed helping the Chiefs and professional baseball’s Kansas City Royals finance new stadiums in Kansas ahead of a special session set to convene Tuesday. The plan would authorize state bonds for stadium construction and pay them off with revenues from sports betting, the Kansas Lottery and new tax dollars generated in and around the new venues. (AP Photo/Reed Hoffmann. File)

Kansas is making a big run at the Chiefs and Royals with a plan to help pay for new stadiums

June 19, 2024 at 7:20 a.m.

Kansas is making a serious run at becoming the new home for the Super Bowl champion Kansas City Chiefs.

Kansas lawmakers to debate whether wooing the Chiefs with a new stadium is worth the cost

June 17, 2024 at 1:21 p.m.

Kansas legislators trying to lure the Chiefs to their state argue that helping the Super Bowl champions build a new stadium could bring Kansas millions of dollars.

Kansas Senate Commerce Committee Chair Renee Erickson, left, R-Wichita, confers with House Commerce Committee Chair Sean Tarwater, right, R-Stilwell, during a break in the Senate’s session, Tuesday, April 30, 2024, at the Statehouse in Topeka, Kan. The two lawmakers have helped draft a proposal designed to assist the Kansas City Chiefs football team and the Kansas City Royals baseballs team finance new stadiums in Kansas. (AP Photo/John Hanna)

Lawmakers want Chiefs and Royals to come to Kansas — but a stadium plan fizzled over taxpayer concerns

May 1, 2024 at 7:20 a.m.

An effort to help the Chiefs and Royals finance new stadiums in Kansas fizzed over concerns about how it might look to taxpayers.

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