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4:30 am
Thu March 28, 2013

Breaking Down The 'Arch Tax'

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The planned changes to the Arch, creating a "park over the highway."
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What the Arch currently looks like now.
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What the new entrance to the Arch would look like.
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What that area currently looks like.
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Next Tuesday, you’ll have a chance to decide on Proposition P: a 3/16th of a cent sales tax increase which amounts to about two cents on a $10 purchase. The measure is often referred to as “the Arch Tax,” but the nickname doesn’t tell the whole story.

“Between 1995 and 2005, the Arch had about 3.3 million visitors a year," Ryan McClure with the CityArchRiver project told me as he walked me through the Arch grounds."Right now they’re averaging about 2.3.”

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Politically Speaking
3:13 pm
Fri March 22, 2013

Politically Speaking: Prop P, MOSIRA, and McCaskill's Book

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Every week, St. Louis Public Radio’s Chris McDaniel joins the St. Louis Beacon’s Jo Mannies and Jason Rosenbaum to talk about the week’s politics.

On this week's episode: We discuss the conservatives on both sides of Prop. P, the court rulings while the Missouri legislature is on vacation, and Democratic Senator Claire McCaskill's new book.

Follow Chris McDaniel on Twitter: @csmcdaniel

Follow Jo Mannies on Twitter: @jmannies

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