Restore funding for transportation and biosciences projects
Quality highways have long been essential to economic development, but in recent years the state's revenue problems have jeopardized the ambitious highway-building program passed by this Legislature. My plan restores funding for the remainder of the
program so that the Kansas Department of Transportation can complete every announced project. The Kansas Technology Enterprise Corporation and the Department of Commerce are working on an aggressive initiative to make Kansas a world leader in biosciences
Source: State of the State address to the Kansas Legislature
Jan 12, 2004