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The superintendent of the Kansas Highway Patrol says that more funding is needed to address the KHP's low staffing levels.

Kansas Governor Sam Brownback says the sales tax and tobacco tax increases he signed into law aren't really tax hikes at all, if viewed in the proper context.

Governor Brownback asks Kansans to view tax hikes within a larger context. He says the bills don't really represent a tax increase because of past income tax cuts he promoted in 2012 and 2013.

It's all but certain Kansas lawmakers will pass tax increases before wrapping up their business for the year. But which taxes will be raised - and by how much? That's what legislators are struggling with, as the session drags on into overtime.

UPDATE: This plan has failed in committee. / As Kansas lawmakers try to fill a huge hole in the state budget, one GOP legislator is pushing a plan to raise the state state sales tax by a whole penny. However, Wichita Republican Representative Steve Brunk wants to keep intact the current income tax exemption for 330,000 business owners and farmers.