Subject: Jim Rowland

• Stadium renovations laugh at recession

  By DAVID MARTIN Jackson County Executive Mike Sanders has proposed a budget that slices $4 million out of the general fund. But in these austere times, the county-supported renovations of Arrowhead and Kauffman stadiums are feeling no pain. The 0.375-percent sales tax that pays for the bulk of the stadium work is producing almost as much revenue as it did in 2007. The Jackson County Sports Complex Authority received a memo from its investment bank last week indicating that 2008 receipts from t

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