it is also my honor to welcome lieutenant governor david tolan along with his family his wife beth and their children caroline and william. [applause] at this time last year i stood here and reviewed the tremendous turn around our state had made in just four years. four straight years of balanced budgets. four straight years of fully funding schools. landing the largest economic development project in the history of our states. i declared the state of our state to be very strong. [applause] while achieving excellence is hard, sustaining that excellence is even harder. yet that is exactly what we have done together. last year kansas attracted more business investment per capita than any other state in the country. this year kansas is number one again. [applause] two years ago, thanks to the influx of new jobs we hit record low unemployment rates so we encouraged more kansas to join the labor force and give them the tools and training they needed. now there are more kansas working than ever before. [applause] and i believe he is in the gallery it's one of our newest kansas workers alan s