Gov. Laura Kelly summoned the Republican-dominated Legislature on Wednesday to collaborate on writing a new chapter of Kansas state government embodied by budget stability and targeted investment in children, health care and the economy. Kelly, a Democrat elected after eight years of gubernatorial control by Republicans Jeff Colyer and Sam Brownback, said solutions to government's challenges were often found by people united by the political spectrum's center of gravity. "Regardless of our state's partisan breakdown, our crowning achievements have always been won on the middle ground," Kelly said...
