Orchestra Sues Missouri For Promised Money

Ten years ago the Missouri legislature “enacted a law calling for half of the income taxes paid by out-of-state athletes and entertainers who worked in Missouri to be put in the Missouri Arts Council Trust Fund (also known as the Missouri Cultural Trust). But that hasn’t happened, and now th Kansas City Symphony is suing the state, charging it has shortchanged the fund by $83 million in principal and interest since 1987.