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to try to solve these problems, and I think frankly bipartisan solutions tend to be more durable.” In addition, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell rebuffed Trump’s demands that the Senate change its rules so it can pass a health overhaul with a simple majority vote. McConnell, R-Ky., said the Senate lacks
With $300,000 tucked away in their 2018 budget to facilitate construction of new ambulance stations in Humboldt and Moran, Jerry Daniels “I’d like for us to get started in the spring,” Allen County Commissioner Jerry Daniels said Tuesday morning. New stations will replace ones that have been in place for several years, funded in some measure by the two cities. They are deemed inadequate, for several reasons. Foremost, in Humboldt at least, is the size of the bay where an ambulance is poised day and night. Newer ambulances are larger and when all in Iola’s fleet — countywide service provider in agreement with the county — are in service, current satellite stations will be
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A thin layer of fog, indicative of cool, humid morning temperatures, greeted Allen Countians at sunrise this morning, creating this image along a low-lying meadow south of Gas along 1800 Street. Forecasts call for high temps to remain in the 80s over the next week and beyond. REGISTER/RICHARD LUKEN
GOP makes overtures on health care By ALAN FRAM The Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans showed signs Tuesday of reaching out to Democrats for a joint if modest effort to buttress health insurance markets, four days after the GOP effort to unilaterally uproot and reshape the Obama health care law crumpled in the Senate. The Republican chairman
of the Senate health committee, Tennessee’s Lamar Alexander, said he’d seek bipartisan l e g i s l a t i o n Lamar Alexander extending for one year federal payments to insurers that help millions of low- and moderate-income Americans afford coverage.
President Donald Trump has threatened to halt those subsidies in hopes of forcing Democrats to make concessions, which the Senate’s top Democrat on Tuesday called “not what an adult does.” The No. 2 Senate Republican also seemed to imply the two parties should seek common health care ground. Texas Sen. John Cornyn said on the Senate floor, “We are forced to work together
July revenues come in above forecasts By JOHN HANNA The Associated Press
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas collected $7.6 million more in taxes than anticipated in July, which was the first month under an income tax increase enacted by legislators by overriding Republican Gov. Sam Brownback’s veto. Brownback’s budget director and revenue secretary said it’s too early to tell whether the higher taxes imposed by lawmakers will
raise the expected $1.2 billion over the next two years to help keep the budget balanced. Brownback aides have argued that even the debate over raising taxes dampened economic activity. “The new tax law brings
so many ramifications that it’s difficult to separate economic trends from the tax increase,” Revenue Secretary Sam Williams said in a statement. The Department of Revenue reported that the state collected $453.5 million in taxes last month, or 1.7 percent more than the official estimate of almost $446 million, a figure adjusted to account for the tax changes. Lawmakers raised income See JULY | Page A2
Tillerson: U.S., Russia ties ‘under stress’ By TRACY WILKERSON Tribune News Service
WASHINGTON (TNS) — Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said Tuesday that U.S. relations with Russia are under “considerable stress” Rex Tillerson following Russia’s demand that Washington cut 755 U.S. diplomats and local staff from the U.S. Embassy and three consulates in Russia. “Of course it makes our life more difficult, more difficult,” Tillerson said in a
news briefing to mark his first six months in office. The question, he said, is whether relations are “getting worse or can we maintain some level of stability ... and continue to find ways to address areas of mutual interest, and ways in which we can deal with our differences, without those becoming open conflicts.” Tillerson said he expects President Donald Trump to sign legislation that will impose new sanctions on Russia for its meddling in the 2016 election. The White House previously had said Trump would do so, but has not said when. The secretary of state said
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he will meet with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov this weekend in Manila at the margins of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations conference. It will be their first face-toface meeting since Congress overwhelmingly passed the sanctions bill last week and Putin retaliated by ordering deep cuts at the U.S. diplomatic missions in Russia. Tillerson also revealed that Trump told Lavrov when the two met in the Oval Office in May that “we need some good news” from Moscow. They met a day after the president had fired See STRESS | Page A2
Public invited to learn about wind farm plans MORAN — EDP Renewables North America, which is in the late stages of developing a wind farm in northern Allen County, will host an open house Tuesday to answer any and all questions the public may have about their plans. The open house runs from 5 to 8 p.m. at the Marmaton Valley High School commons area. Several staffers will be on hand to discuss the project. The company announced in late June it had filed applications for construction of the wind farm. EDP has been acquiring options on land — about 14,000 acres in hand at last notice — so it may erect more than 50 — perhaps close to 100 — windmills to generate electricity. The site is convenient
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for the company, being close to transmission lines along the east side of the county to transport power generated into the grid. Transportation access is an important aspect of windproduced power. Rick Peterson, associate director of development for EDP, told the Register earlier this year construction of the wind farm could start soon enough to have turbines online by late 2018. Construction will mean many temporary jobs. Once completed, 12 to 18 full-time technicians will be employed to maintain the turbines. A second company, NextEra, is obtaining options on land in southwest Bourbon and southeast Allen counties, but is not as close as EDP to power production.
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