(Syndicated to Kansas newspapers Sept. 21, 2015)
We’ve all done something that in hindsight was probably ill-advised—say wearing a plaid suit to the annual convention of actuaries or feeding the geese in Johnson County.
There are simple fixes for those errors in judgment.
But when the Legislature makes one of those ill-advised decisions, and the governor agrees to it, it winds up in the Kansas Statutes Annotated and becomes the law of the land.