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“Gov. Sam Brownback will pull money from the state’s highway fund and other sources after state economists projected a $118 million budget shortfall Friday. “Even after those adjustments, the state is projected to have a cash balance of $5.6 million at the end of June and to face a shortfall of $175.6 million for 2017, the economists said. “Asked whether the state is in the red, Budget Director Shawn Sullivan replied: ‘Depends on what you look at. We’re basically at zero right now, so yes.’” Read more here: http://www.kansas.com/news/politics-government/article43476609.html...

“Visibly frustrated Kansas Supreme Court justices hammered attorneys for the state Friday over what legislators knew – or should have known – when they scrapped the longstanding school finance formula in favor of Gov. Sam Brownback’s plan to fund schools using block grants…       “’Simply, this needs to be fixed,’ Rupe told the justices. ‘I’ve been in front of you eight times, and there is a pattern here.’ “Several justices expressed frustration that state lawyers had told them the Legislature would provide full funding of the formula and then backed away from that. “They pointed out...