Kansas House Speaker Ray Merrick invited legislators and lobbyists to get measured for a pair of custom-made boots at the Capitol next week amid deliberations on Gov. Sam Brownback’s plan to resolve a state government budget deficit.
House and Senate members are to reconvene the 2016 legislative session Wednesday in Topeka, and Merrick’s chief of staff had informed Statehouse insiders by email that representatives of a Texas company would be stationed April 28-29 in the Statehouse visitor’s center to address footwear needs of invited ...