D.C. wrecking crew has taken sledgehammer to services for Kansas rural communities

“A good thing to remember. A better thing to do. Work with the construction gang. Not the wrecking crew.”

As a fifth-generation Kansan who has spent more than two decades building up Kansas communities, I was honored to be appointed by the White House as state director for U.S. Department of Agriculture Rural Development in 2022. Throughout my years working in local and state government, nonprofit management, small business, politics, and consulting, I carried the same mission with me — work with the “construction gang” to leave every place better than I found it. Don’t break something you can’t fix.

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