Kemper Arena replacement must be priority

The quest to replace Kemper Arena is like a duck on a pond moving quietly forward on the surface, with turbulent paddling going on underneath. It's been a year-and-a-half since the American Royal and the Kemper family released a proposal to raze Kansas City's Kemper Arena and replace it with a 5,000-seat Agricultural Events Center that better fits the needs of the American Royal and agricultural-related events. But there is still no signed agreement in place, no memorandum of understanding on how…