I left Kansas because the work I wanted was somewhere else, and I spent much of my career in film and television in Los Angeles before I came home to Wichita.
Young Kansans leave for that same reason every year, and affection for home cannot by itself provide a paycheck or a school worth raising a family around.
I would rather the next generation not have to leave to find those things, because Kansas can grow opportunity within its own borders and give its young people a reason to stay…