Sangamon Digest

Nine years after Kirkwood bet $26 million on a downtown performing arts center, the city has lost about $225,000 a year on average on KPAC — far beyond early projections — while also paying about $1.3 million a year on the building’s debt, a Post-Dispatch analysis found.

Council members partly blame a contract with STAGES St. Louis, the nonprofit that stages shows there, and ethics experts quoted by the paper raised questions about city leaders’ ties to the group. Read the Post-Dispatch for the city’s response.