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# Kansas daily brief
- URL: https://www.citizenjournal.us/kansas-daily-brief-draft/
- Published: 2025-12-23T14:06:14.000Z
- Updated: 2026-07-04T02:34:10.000Z
- Description: Kansas and US news for busy people - Dec 23, 2025 edition
- Author: Greg Loving
- Tags: hcj, email, #summary

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## 🌾Kansas

- **Chiefs Stadium Deal**: Kansas and the Chiefs finalized a $3B domed stadium agreement in Wyandotte County, creating 20,000 construction jobs with no new state taxes, marking the state's largest economic development project ever.
- **Stadium Design**: The new 65,000-seat domed facility is designed to host Super Bowls, Final Fours, and College Football Playoff games starting in 2031.
- **Royals' Uncertain Future**: The Royals publicly supported the Chiefs' move to Kansas while their own stadium plans remain unresolved, with Kansas setting a year-end deadline for STAR bond decisions.
- **Kansas Supreme Court Leadership Change**: Justice Eric Rosen will become chief justice on January 2 after Chief Justice Marla Luckert resigned following a stroke, though she'll remain as associate justice.
- **Record U.S. Harvest**: American farmers harvested a record 23.6 billion bushels in 2025-26, up 8% from last year, creating downward price pressure as U.S. global export market share has declined from 40% to 25% since 2000.

### *My take on the impact of the Chiefs deal to Kansas politics:*

[A Coup for the Kansas DemocratsThe agreement to bring the Chiefs to Kansas is a boon to the beleaguered state party![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/f7/e6/f7e66a8b-8f27-493f-8b7e-664ecefd4c3d/content/images/icon/favicon-3893.ico)citizen journalGreg Loving![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/f7/e6/f7e66a8b-8f27-493f-8b7e-664ecefd4c3d/content/images/thumbnail/Image-86-5.jpeg)](https://www.citizenjournal.us/a-coup-for-the-kansas-democrats/)

[Top 5 Kansas news storiesDecember 23 2025![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/f7/e6/f7e66a8b-8f27-493f-8b7e-664ecefd4c3d/content/images/icon/favicon-3894.ico)citizen journalGreg Loving![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/f7/e6/f7e66a8b-8f27-493f-8b7e-664ecefd4c3d/content/images/thumbnail/Image-92-4.jpeg)](https://www.citizenjournal.us/top-5-kansas-news-stories-88/)

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## 🇺🇸 US

- **GLP-1 Weight Loss Pill:** FDA approves first oral GLP-1 drug (Ozempic/Wegovy tablet) launching January at $149/month, offering needle-free alternative expected to dramatically expand obesity treatment access.
- **Decade-Long Car Loans:** Average new vehicle prices hit $50,000 (up 33% since 2020), forcing consumers into risky 8-10 year loans with big monthly payments as automakers abandon sub-$30K models.
- **"Trump Class" Battleships:** President orders construction of massive 35,000-ton warships—more than double current destroyer size—capable of launching hypersonic and nuclear missiles to replace "obsolete" Navy fleet.
- **Homeownership Despair:** Young workers are reducing job effort and long-term saving after concluding homeownership is unattainable, with 15% of millennials having already given up by age 30.
- **China Halts Self-Driving Plans:** Deadly March crash killing three students forces regulators to freeze mass production, approving only two limited testing programs instead of the nine planned commercial launches.

[Top 5 US news storiesDecember 23 2025![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/f7/e6/f7e66a8b-8f27-493f-8b7e-664ecefd4c3d/content/images/icon/favicon-3895.ico)citizen journalGreg Loving![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/f7/e6/f7e66a8b-8f27-493f-8b7e-664ecefd4c3d/content/images/thumbnail/Image-88.jpeg)](https://www.citizenjournal.us/top-5-us-news-stories-84/)

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## Weather

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### December 23 1888: Vincent van Gogh chops off his ear