Gov. Kathleen Sebelius (D) focused her Jan. 14 speech on calling for more early childhood education, improving health care and developing more clean and renewable energy.
Sebelius told the Republican-controlled Legislature that an educated workforce is a key to future economic prosperity and proposed adding money to pay for all-day kindergarten.
The governor, in her second term, also asked lawmakers to ban indoor smoking in public buildings statewide and to approve a 50-cent hike in the state’s cigarette tax to help fund health care.
Kansas also should play a greater role in developing biofuels for the nation and should cut greenhouse-gas emissions by using more renewable sources of power and improving energy efficiency, she said..
Past chairwoman of the Democratic Governors Association, Sebelius was chosen to deliver her party’s response to President Bush’s State of the Union address on Jan. 28.
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