An economic development agency currently housed within state government is facing elimination, but groups that have been helped by the agency are now pushing back. Governor Sam Brownback wants other state agencies to take over the functions of the currently-independent Kansas Technology Enterprise Corporation, which provides venture capital and business help to high-tech startups. But Nitrite Solutions C-E-O Jeremy Jones says the state's effort should be something that is separate.
Cutting KTEC (KAY-tek) and some of its programs would save about three and a half million dollars in the next state budget.