With an influx of federal funding for broadband development, the governor’s office is championing a goal to have Kansas among the leaders in high-speed internet access by the end of the decade.

“We’re being bold,” said Lt. Gov. and Commerce Secretary David Toland. “We’re being ambitious. We’re being aggressive. Because we understand how high the stakes are. We are in a race as a state against other states, and we want to win that race so that we can win new residents, we can win new businesses and we can retain the ones that we have.”