Robert Layton’s first day at work as city manager ran from sunup to sundown — and then a little — in perhaps a fitting start to what he knows is not going to be an easy job.

Top priority is the budget, Layton said during a 15-minute slot cut out of his schedule on Monday for media interviews. The city will end its fiscal year with a $600,000 shortfall.

“That means we start in the hole for the fiscal year,” he said from his desk on the 13th floor of City Hall.

“We know that the economy isn’t going to rebound quickly. We know that a lot of folks are experiencing their own economic stress, and we don’t want to add to that in terms of what we do with taxes. So it’s going to be a difficult year.”

Tax increases are off the table, he said, and the city will look for any reasonable way to help businesses.

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Rep. Dale Swenson has switched from being a Republican to a Democrat.

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Monday, cameras replaced students in the halls of Linwood Elementary. All eyes on John Allison, as Wichita’s superintendent tours his new district.

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The state is shutting down a northern Kansas treatment center for troubled adolescents after inspectors found emergency exit doors locked on three occasions.

Employment in the U.S. nonresidential building construction trades fell by 5,900 jobs in July, slightly better than the average of 6,200 jobs lost in each of the previous three months. Between July 2…

Kansas’ two senators are celebrating Senate passage of an energy and water appropriations bill containing $4 million to buy cancer research equipment for the University of Kansas.

The bill also contained a number of appropriations for continuing water projects, including $2 million for recharging groundwater in the Equus Beds aquifer, the primary source of water for Wichita.

The $4 million for KU will come through the Department of Energy Office of Science and assist the university in its effort to earn a National Institute of Health cancer center designation.

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