Toasting the session?

(Syndicated to Kansas newspapers on May 27, 2013)

Martin HawverWell, for all the Legislature has and hasn’t—yet—done this session, it has put a firm cap on the size of a pitcher of margaritas, sangria, daiquiris and the like that can be served at bars in the state.

That cap? Sixty-four ounces, or what most of us would refer to as a half-gallon. Nope, no limit on the number of pitchers you can buy, but we’re figuring that it would take what we’d refer to as a power couple to order up a second pitcher.

So, that’s the hallmark of the 2013 Legislature? Probably not, but for now, there isn’t an agreement on what to do with taxes—cuts and increases—to finance last year’s massive income tax cuts nor is there a budget for the new fiscal year that starts in less than five weeks.