An important story from The Topeka Capital-Journals tireless government reporter Tim Carpenter detailed further issues with the tenure of former Commerce secretary Antonio Soave.
Soave, who led the department from 2015 to 2017 and was forced out amid ethics concerns, apparently transferred a treasure trove of state data on thousands of Kansas companies, business executives and economic development specialists to the secretarys own private consulting firm.
These target files, which included information about more than 10,000 firms, were created using state resources. That…
