Kansans bet $194 million on sports, state got $1,134

Folks who imagine dark conspiracies in Kansas politics, meetings behind closed doors devising sinister plans, should consider the possibility that legislators are just bad at their jobs.

For evidence, read the blockbuster story by Marco Schaden, published recently on the Wichita and Kansas City Beacon websites. The headline alone will make your head explode.

“The month the Chiefs won the Super Bowl,…