Advocates and their lobbyists, dead set on preserving programs, scurried about the Kansas Capitol Wednesday and will for some time to come after Gov. Sam Brownback cast a wide net Wednesday to find revenue for the current fiscal year and those to come.
The well-documented fiscal concerns are a $342 million shortfall this fiscal year, which ends June 30, and an anticipated funding gap for existing programs of $1.1 billion through fiscal 2018. The current shortage is for six months of tax revenue — income, sales and property — and could become more desperate in the months…
