Voters weighed in on the fate of a Royals downtown ballpark and several school boards across the Kansas City area on Tuesday. ( Naomi O’Donnell/ The Beacon)
Voters turned out in large numbers for a spring election on Tuesday, soundly rejecting a proposal to extend a Jackson County sales tax to pay for a downtown Royals stadium and sorting out the makeup of school boards across the metro.
Stadium tax
Jackson County’s Question 1 failed by a vote of roughly 42% to 58%, denying the Chiefs and Royals an estimated $2 billion in sales tax money that would have…