Next week the Kansas Legislature convenes. Decisions will be made about school financing, health care for the poor, the state’s appellate courts, the state’s universities and how the money collected at Kansas fuel pumps will be spent.
Be ready to tell your state representative and senator how you feel those decisions should be made.
Tell them to restore K-12 funding to its pre-recession levels and then be ready to invest still more to lift Kansas public schools to excellence. There is no better way to give Kansas children a head start in life.
Tell them to take money from the great majority of us who have food in our pantries, sound roofs over our heads, warm clothing on our shoulders, and use it to lift up the poor and give them a path out of poverty.
Tell them to invest in the community colleges, technical schools and the Regents universities, which will determine the future of Kansas.
Tell them to take the taxes collected at the fuel pumps across the state and spend the money making Kansas highways better. Fuel taxes should be used to improve the state’s transportation system, not to pay lawmaker’s salaries or give rich folks lower taxes.
Think of other advice for them and don’t hesitate a minute to tell it to them, loud and clear.
— Emerson Lynn, jr.
