ITEMS IN THE NEWS

Ho-hum.
Another wrap-up session of the Kansas Legislature, another long to-do list for solons to come back to:
--Deferred maintenance;
--Deciding whether or not to allow Sumner County to bid on a casino (whatever happened to Harvey County in all of this?);
--Finding money for a federal match to fund repairs to roads damaged in last winter's storm;
--Finding the $37 million to pay back the feds for Medicaid money wrongfully spent on education;
--And health care reform.
There are some other issues that might crop up, too:
--A possible attempt to override Governor Kathleen Sebelius' veto of a bill that would have prohibited local governments from establishing their own more stringent concealed-carry ordinances;
--Possible funding for 1-5 homeland security training centers sought by Adjutant General Tod Bunting.
But, rest assured. We dare not be distracted by such trivialities as making sure our colleges have usable, serviceable facilites.
No doubt, conservative Republicans will find some bright, shiny object to keep us all occupied while they work as hard as they can to accomplish... nothing.
--R.J. Dickens