(Syndicated to Kansas newspapers March 28, 2016)
You’ve done it…driven down the block and around the corner and wonder…did the garage door go down? Or did I pour water for the cat, or whatever else you let run around the house when you’re gone?
Well, legislators are now safely home and have a month to ask themselves those same questions. What did they forget…or just didn’t get done…and what’s it going to look like when they get back to the Statehouse in late April?
Chances are it isn’t going to get pretty.
The budget is, of course, the big issue. With a strictly on-paper shortfall of maybe $30 million and likely to get bigger between now and the end of the fiscal year on June 30, some are wondering what to do and who will do it.