We sat down with republican representative Doug Blex last week as he spoke upon some lighter notes coming out of Topeka. The numbers are in and the month of August showed higher revenues. Blex says the economy being in the shape it is as well as the increase of state income tax in 2017 are some reasons for the increase but the numbers continue to look positive as he says August numbers were almost 8 million dollars more than our previous year. Blex says September is always usually a month that is higher than expectations, as self employed individuals will make their yearly tax payments. Blex says the increase is always a good thing as we approach November, where we start to look towards the following year. Though 8 million isn’t an excessive amount to the Kansas Government, at least tee numbers are up.