Dave Helling

Okay.

I should just point out that my colleague, former colleague Dave Helling from The Star, who did way more fact checks than I did over the years, has said in the past that he rarely sees an ad that's a hundred percent accurate, Amber.

So you're not getting straight stuff with those ads.

I think that's, that's pretty well determined here.

From KCUR News, local government reporter Savannah Hawley-Bates.

and former star staffer, now Mr. Kansas City Stack on Substack, Dave Helling.

Now, after months of waiting, we finally got more definitive details this week on the new Royals downtown ballpark, including when construction will get underway and a new economic study that predicts A 20% jump in attendance at Royals games? We'll get into that in just a moment.

But first, the wrecking ball.

Convention and tourism taxes were flat, so we're going to have to get our enjoyment of the Cup somewhere other than at the cash register, it looks like.

And on that, we will say our week has been reviewed courtesy of KCUR's Savannah Hawley-Bates and Channel 9 anchor Kris Ketz.

From NextPageKC, Eric Wesson and news icon and Mr. Kansas City Stack on Substack, Dave Helling.

Next week, we shift into election mode.

Win 'em before you can buy 'em, 7:45, and then again at 4:45 right here on KCMO.

Dave Helling, he is on Substack now.

Kansas City Stack is where you can find him and all of his work.

Doing great work there.

So two million is... shouldn't be a surprise.

That, that sounds about right to me.

Dave Helling is here.

Of course, uh, four decades in journalism in this town, TV, Kansas City Star, now on Substack, Kansas City Stack, joining us.

We got some numbers here.

Our mutual friend Dave Helling writing at Kansas City Stack that sales tax revenues, oh boy, sales tax revenues for Kansas City collected $31.9 million in the month of June when there were four World Cup games.

That is up from $29.8 million in June of 25.

That's about a 7% increase in a month with four World Cup matches.

So there are some nuances to what we have there.

That being said...

Our friend Zoran Mamdani, and I share this with some of my local DSA friends who say the World Cup was a failure, the NFL draft was a failure, and all of that.

No further authority than Zoran said that New York City had about, I think it was about $3.5 billion of economic development activity.

Hopping on board the Week in Review bus with us this week, KSHB Chief Political Reporter, Charlie Keegan.

Former Star Reporter, now Mr. Kansas City Stack on Substack, Dave Helling.

At the helm of our Metro's newest newspaper, Next Page KC, Eric Wesson.

And KCUR Chief Political Analyst, Brian Ellison.

They arrested me because I didn't make a $50 payment to Roger Marshall.

Now, Marshall's attorney says the whole ad is a lie, and Zimmerman wasn't arrested for a mispayment but for failing to appear in court, that her medical debt wasn't 50 bucks but more than 3,000, and a judge ordered her to appear because she'd failed to appear in court 16 times in a three-year period for nonpayment of multiple businesses in multiple counties.

So, Dave Helling, you were known for your campaign Truthwatch segment when you were the Metro's top political reporter.

What grade...

But, hey, can we get you here in Kansas for Doc Marshall? I mean, seriously, Chicago's an hour away.

Does Doc Marshall want him here? You know what? You're bringing up a point that Dave Helling brought up to me last week.

He said, does Doc Marshall want him here? I said, at this point, Marshall's got no choice.

He's got to sink or swim with

Momentum.

He needs Trump here.

And Dave Helling's like, I don't think he wants him here.

He's got no choice.

And former star staffer, now Mr. Kansas City Stack on Substack.

Dave Helling.

Now, as we record our program this week, the dust still hasn't settled on one of the biggest political dramas of the year.

I'm talking about the ongoing saga over Missouri's congressional map.

Before we move on to another topic, I want to introduce you, by the way, to the most powerful man in the Kansas U.S. Senate race you've probably never heard of.

He is Oval and Park attorney David Graham, and he's polling at 4% in this U.S. Senate race between Roger Marshall and Adam Hamilton.

If this race, Dave Helling, is really as close as the polls claim, could David Graham be the man who

costs Roger Marshall this election? It's possible, but I...

It airs Friday nights at 7.30 and then Sunday mornings at 11.00.

So we talked about this and, you know, Dave Helling and some of the other panelists were like, I don't know if Trump really wants Marshall coming here.

Or I should say, I don't know if Marshall wants Trump coming here.

Because I shared on the show, like I shared with you last week, that Doc Marshall noted here on KCMO that he was... trying to get the president of the United States to Kansas.

And Dave Helling was like, well, I don't know if that's a good idea.

I get what he's saying, but at this point, if you're Doc Marshall, you kind of have to live and die by Trump.

You don't really have a choice.