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Commission lays out ambulance timeline

By TREVOR HOAG The Iola Register

Allen County’s ambulance contract could be awarded by the end of the month or soon after.

“Obviously, with the selection, it’s the sooner the better, with respect to both our budget and the city’s,” said commissioner Jerry Daniels at Tuesday’s meeting “I think we originally decided by the end of August, but we would prefer by the end of July,” he added.

“We’ve got several meetings set up in the next 10 days, with both applicants,” Daniels said. The city of Iola currently provides ambulance services. Also vying for the contract is American Medical Response. Linn County currently uses AMR, a nationwide company.

Commissioner David Lee added, “I know the employees right now, the ones I’ve spoken to, are very anxious to get this behind them, so that they know the direction.”

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Current cases.............9 Total cases*...............1,260 Deaths......................20 *Since the start of the pandemic Sources: Southeast Kansas Multi-County Health Departments, Kansas Department of Health and Environment

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Commissioners Jerry Daniels, left, and David Lee discuss the timeline for the county’s ambulance contract. REGISTER/TREVOR HOAG

IN OTHER news, Terry Call, planning and zoning administrator, said he’d received an inquiry regarding the replacement of certain blades at the Prairie Queen Wind Farm.

“It’ll probably be some time this week, and be about two months worth of work,” he said.

“It’s a huge crane they’re bringing in,” he added, though it was unclear how many blades were being re-

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placed or for what reason.

“They were just wanting to make sure that there weren’t any special permits needed for the roads,” Call noted.

Call also provided the re-

It’s a busy time to start a new career in agriculture.

Chad Guthrie, the new agronomy agent for the Southwind Extension District, hit the ground running starting June 1.

Guthrie is in charge of a variety of issues that all come under the ag umbrella.

Technically, his title is “crop production and forage management agent.”

“It covers anything from row crops to forages to pond management to ag economics,” Guthrie said. “Pretty much anything a farmer is going to encounter.”

The county fairs will be his first real introduction to the area.

He’ll spend the next two weeks working at the Bourbon County Fair.

Then, it’s on to the Allen County Fair, which runs July 22-26.

“I’m kind of starting in Bourbon County and slowly inching my way west,” he said. “It’s hard to meet farm-

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SEK sees upturn in COVID-19 variant

By KATIE BERNARD Kansas City Star

PITTSBURG, Kan. (AP) — Every time a patient enters her office, Krista Mijares, a Pittsburg pediatrician, asks them and their parent if they’ve been vaccinated. If not, she makes her pitch.

Do they want to be vaccinated? How about now? If they don’t, why?

In recent weeks the conversations have come with a warning: the Delta COVID-19 variant is in their community and makes it riskier than ever to remain unvaccinated.

And vaccinated or not, Mi-

jares advises families to once again wear masks in public spaces if they’ve stopped.

“Don’t drop your guard, and if you are eligible to get a vaccine get vaccinated,” Mijares tells patients.

Southeast Kansas is in a shaky spot. The New York Times identified Crawford and Cherokee counties as two of the state’s most dangerous places to be unvaccinated as the Delta variant of COVID-19 spreads at alarming rates. Across the border in Southwest Missouri, Delta’s aggressive advance and escalating hospital admissions prompted the state to

ask for federal help.

Though the Kansas counties have higher vaccination numbers than their Missouri neighbors to the east, they lack the herd immunity needed to insulate the community from a new round of outbreaks.

The Community Health Center of Southeast Kansas is “throwing everything at a wall and seeing what sticks” as they try to increase COVID-19 testing and vaccination rates, said Dawn McNay, the director of development. That includes various incentives, constant social See COVID | Page A6

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Right-wing extremism rooted in rural Kansas

By JIM MCLEAN Kansas News Service

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GARDEN CITY — Patrick Stein was bitter. Battles with drugs and the failure of his business in the 2008 recession had derailed his life.

He fumed at the federal government for not doing more to help people like him while immigrants flooded in around him in Garden City.

He went to Washington, D.C., seeking a bailout like the banks and auto companies were getting but left humiliated when members of Congress from Kansas ignored him.

“I saw how disgustingly corrupt, how wasteful our system is,” Stein told New York Times reporter Jessica Pressler.

His story of frustration and anger — at Washington, at big business, at a perceived threat to white culture — echoes long-festering grievances in

Trump supporters storm the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021 in an attempt to stop Congress from certifying the results of the presidential election. (KENT NISHIMURA/LOS ANGELES TIMES/TNS) the rural Midwest that fueled sometimes-violent actions against the government. Episodes that make the Jan. 6 siege of the U.S. Capitol less a surprise and more of an evo-

lution of far-right dissent.

After his business failed, Stein moved into a trailer on his parent’s property where he spent a lot of time on rightwing news sites growing an-

grier.

He directed that anger at then-President Barack Obama. Falsely claiming that Obama was the leader of the See EXTREMISM | Page A3

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Lawmaker launches campaign for AG

By JOHN HANNA Associated Press

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A GOP state lawmaker launched a 2022 campaign for Kansas attorney general on Tuesday, seeking to capitalize on doubts expressed by many fellow Republicans that polarizing conservative Kris Kobach can win the general election if he’s the nominee.

State Sen. Kellie Warren, a Leawood attorney, is the chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee and was at the center of debates about the state’s response to the coronavirus pandemic.

She was a key player in the GOP-controlled Legislature’s successful efforts earlier this year to curb Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly’s authority and limit future governors’ power.

Three-term GOP Attorney General Derek Schmidt is running for governor, and Republicans argue that it’s vital to keep the office so that it will defend conservative state policies and challenge the actions by Democratic President Joe Biden’s administration. Warren opened her campaign by describing herself as a “battle-tested conservative” in a video.

“Some people are great at creating headlines but they never win, and ultimately, it’s our values that pay the price,” Warren said in her video. “But I fight.

Then I win, and that’s important.”

It was a dig at Kobach, her main rival so far for the Republican nomination in the August 2022 primary.

Kobach, a former Kansas secretary of state, built a national profile as an advocate of strict immigration laws.

He later became an informal adviser to President Donald Trump and was vice chairman of a short-lived Trump commission on election fraud.

But Kobach lost the 2018 governor’s race to Kelly and a Republican primary in 2020 for a U.S. Senate seat. He has alienated moderate GOP and independent voters; some Republicans see him as a lackluster fundraiser, and University of Kansas political scientist Patrick Miller said the party’s establishment “would rather not have him on the ticket.”

“Electability is probably going to be one of those issues that will matter in that primary,” Miller said. “You can’t hit him on conservatism, right? So I guess you could attack him on style.”

But Kobach suggested Warren isn’t qualified to be attorney general because real estate law is a major part of her private practice. Warren said in her video that she’s defended private property rights, but Kobach argued that, “If there is a less relevant legal background for the attorney general’s office than real estate law, I don’t know what it is.”

Rural county leads in vaccination rates KAYLIE MCLAUGHLIN Kansas News Service

You wouldn’t know from just a glance around downtown Marysville that Marshall County residents are getting their COVID-19 vaccination at a higher rate than nearly every other place across Kansas.

There are rarely visible lines for doses.

Sure, the county health department pulled off successful mass vaccination clinics in Marysville’s historic train depot early on in the vaccine rollout. But most days, the department sees just a trickle of people coming in. Even those numbers have been dropping a bit.

Nor do county residents seem especially wary of the pandemic.

Outside of the health department, face masks were a rare site in many areas in early summer.

Yet Marshall County has emerged as one of the state’s biggest success stories in terms of getting a large percentage of county residents vaccinated against COVID-19.

More than half of the county’s 9,800 people have received at least one dose of a vaccine, according to the Kansas Department of Health and Environment. That’s more than 6 percentage points higher than the state’s overall rate of about 44%.

About 48% of residents have completed a vaccination series, well above the state average of 39% and more than any other county in Kansas as of July 6.

Marshall County’s experience challenges a narrative that conserva-

Laws aid shift to renewables

By ALLISON KITE Kansas Reflector

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Missouri utilities will be able to shutter more coal plants, speeding their transition to renewable energy, under a bill signed by Gov. Mike Parson Tuesday.

Parson, a Republican, signed into law a policy known as “securitization,” which allows utility companies to refinance debt they issued to build coal plants and close the facilities early without taking a financial hit. With the savings, they can invest in more renewable energy projects, including wind and solar farms.

“It’s just another tool in the toolbox that utilities can use to refinance their burdensome coal debt and use the savings to invest in clean energy and create jobs right here in Missouri,” said Andy Knott deputy regional director for Sierra Club’s Beyond Coal Campaign.

But at the same time, Parson signed legislation prohibiting local governments from banning natural gas hookups on newly-built buildings, a policy Knott says will “limit our ability to address climate change in Missouri.”

He called it an “affront to local control.”

Electrifying buildings, Knott said, is important to limit greenhouse gas emissions that come from burning natural gas.

“That’s really what we need to do as a nation in order to avert the worst impacts of climate change,” Knott said.

Securitization is the rare issue that brings together monopoly utility companies, environmentalists and industrial groups. Advocates have long said it would be a game changer for the environment to help utilities transition away from coal, which releases huge amounts of greenhouse gases.

Proponents also argue it will save Missouri residents huge sums on their utility bills.

Securitization doesn’t require utilities to shut down coal operations. It only offers a financial incentive to do so.

Kansas adopted similar legislation this spring, which Gov. Laura Kelly, a Democrat, signed into law.

The Kansas legislation also allows utilities to stretch over time the exorbitant natural gas bills generated when prices spiked amid a deep freeze in February that forced rolling blackouts.

Both Evergy and Ameren supported the securitization legislation in Missouri.

Both companies have stressed, though, that they have plans to reach net-zero carbon emissions that do not rely on securitization.

Ameren plans to invest $8 billion in renewable energy be-

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tween now and 2040 and achieve net-zero emissions by 2050.

“Ameren Missouri is committed to clean and our plan focuses on getting the energy we provide our customers as clean as we can, as fast as we can, without compromising on affordability or reliability,” said Warren Wood, vice president of regulatory and legislative affairs for Ameren Missouri.

“Securitization has the opportunity to be a useful tool in the future.”

Evergy pledges net-zero by 2045, again, without securitization.

But it plans to operate some coal plants beyond 2040.

In a statement, Evergy communications manager Kaley Bohlen said the company appreciated Missouri’s passage of securitization.

“Utilities and the Missouri Public Service Commission gained a valuable tool that will save money for customers related to the retirement of aging power plants and unusual events like the February winter storm,” Bohlen said.

Both Ameren and Evergy have filed integrated resource plans with Missouri regulators.

Collectively, the two companies are looking at retiring two coal plants by 2025 — the Lawrence Energy Center in Lawrence, Kansas, and the Meramec Power Plant in St. Louis.

tive areas of the U.S. are more reluctant to get the vaccine than those living in urban and suburban areas. It joins a handful of other red, rural Kansas counties — about 73% of Marshall County voters cast ballots to reelect President Donald Trump in 2020 — that are also Marshall County Health Department Director Sue achieving high vaccinaRhodes walks past the Health Department building tion rates.

The county’s success in Marysville. (LUKE TOWNSEND/ZUMA PRESS) isn’t being driven by anything attention-grabbing, ready depended on the in their arms,” Rhodes such as the vaccine lot- health department for says.

While it’s a hub for imteries that other states vaccinations long before there was COVID-19 munizations, the health have been using. If you ask local health officials or even a vaccine for it. department’s staff — and community leaders, The department’s staff Rhodes, four nurses and there is no single reason of nurses has regularly two office workers — hapfor it. Instead, a network provided age-specific and pens to be geographicalof existing infrastructure annual immunizations. ly dispersed so that just that predates not just the That’s unusual because about every county resivaccination process but people don’t usually go dent can easily get firstthe pandemic itself is a to a local health depart- hand advice. ment for their flu shots, “Everybody in the huge factor.

“The health care in a choosing primary care county knows someone community is about an physicians or a pharmacy that’s employed here,” Rhodes says. “That helps entire system; it’s not just instead.

“There’s no one or no build a rapport. It helps one department. Part of that system is our press is place in our county that build trust.”

In this case, the rural good, our health depart- gets vaccines,” Rhodes ment is good, our hospital says, “so we vaccinate nature of the community actually strengthens the is good, our care homes 90% of the county.”

When it came time to public health system. are outstanding,” Coun“People know each othty Commissioner Barb start giving COVID-19 vaccines to the general er; neighbors talk to each Kickhaefer says.

The way Sue Rhodes, community in the early other,” Rhodes says.

When you know all of a registered nurse and months of 2021, people the administrator of the were already used to mak- your neighbors, there’s Marshall County Health ing a trip to downtown a deeper connection to Department, sees it, the Marysville for an immu- them, which can inspire appointment. more compassion for high vaccination rate can nization Marysville is the county those impacted by a mabe traced back to decades of work in the county to seat and largest city, but jor crisis, says Kickhaebuild a health care sys- Marshall County is also fer, the county commistem built on trust, com- home to Blue Rapids, sioner.

Waterville, “We don’t want peomunity partnerships and Frankfort, Axtell and a few other ple to die,” she says. “We neighborly connections. want our kids to go to “We went at it that small towns.

The goal of the health school. I want my neighthese are our people, and we need to take care of department throughout bors to feel as safe as that process was the same possible, and if I can do them,” Rhodes says. as it had been with any that by getting a vaccine, that’s a small thing to ONE interesting dy- other vaccination effort.

“We’re trying to get the do to make someone feel namic is that Marshall County residents al- most amount of vaccine safe.”

Schmidt files for Congress

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TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A former U.S. Navy intellig e n c e officer is Patrick Schmidt running as a Democrat for Congress in eastern Kansas.

Patrick Schmidt, 30, announced his candidacy Tuesday and is the first Democrat seeking to challenge freshman Republican Rep. Jake LaTurner in the 2nd District in 2022.

Schmidt moved to Topeka after leaving active duty military service earlier this year.

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Muslim Brotherhood, Stein told members of a militia group he joined that “we are literally being run by a terrorist organization at the highest level.”

Then along came Donald Trump, a presidential candidate whose anti-immigrant rhetoric was music to Stein’s ears.

Emboldened by Trump’s election in 2016, Stein and a small band of co-conspirators hatched a plot to strike a blow against the government and the “cockroaches” they believed were overrunning their town.

They decided to blow up an apartment complex where Somali immigrants lived and worshipped in a makeshift mosque. Those immigrants had come to Garden City to toil in the town’s meatpacking plants.

On a scouting mission to the complex with a man he had recruited, Stein said he planned to detonate the bomb when the Somalis were gathered for one of their daily prayer sessions.

“I’d give anything to have a f...king camera set up to, you know, wi-fi that sh...t so I could watch it live,” he said before breaking into laughter with the man who was videotaping the conversation for the FBI. Stein hoped others would follow his lead.

“If things go like we want them to,” he said, “it will inspire others in a huge way.”

Things didn’t go as planned. Alerted by undercover informants, the FBI arrested Stein and his accomplices before they could trigger the bomb.

After a two-week trial in the spring of 2018, a jury took only seven hours to convict Stein, Gavin Wright and Curtis Allen.

Federal Judge Eric Melgren sentenced each of them to more than 25 years in prison despite pleas for leniency from their lawyers, who argued the men had been inspired by Trump.

Harsh punishment, Wright’s lawyers wrote, won’t deter people from resorting to violence “if they believe they are protecting their countries from enemies identified by their own Commander-in-Chief.”

A photo captured from surveillance cameras shows Will Pope and his brother, Michael Pope, circled, in the mob that invaded the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. average Americans sells more easily to people who live in places that are getting smaller and often poorer, said Kansas historian Jim Leiker.

“When you live in the Heartland,” he said, “it’s easy to get the sense that the rest of the country has forgotten you.”

That feeling of abandonment sits at the core of a long-fermenting form of populism gaining currency in red-state politics. It holds that government elites, not the corporate robber barons targeted by agrarian populists in the 1890s, hollowed out rural America.

The ire turns to politicians seen as catering to minorities, immigrants, and liberals in big cities.

“They feel threatened,” said Robert Wuthnow, a native Kansan and author of “The Left Behind: Decline and Rage in Rural America.”

Wuthnow, a Princeton sociology professor, traveled across rural America for years interviewing people for the book. He argues that the antipathy that many rural people feel toward the federal government stems from the belief that Washington is both ignoring them and driving cultural changes that threaten their values.

“To be honest, a lot of it is just scapegoating,” Wuthnow said in a 2018 Vox interview.

“That’s why you see more xenophobia and racism in these communities,” he said. “There’s a sense that things are going badly, and the impulse is to blame others.”

Radicalized farmers

In 1960, 75% of Americans trusted the federal government, according to a long-running survey conducted by the Pew ReRise of right-wing search Center. That trust populism plummeted in the wake Small groups harbor- of the Vietnam War and ing beliefs like those that the Watergate scandal in inspired the Garden City the 1970s and never rebomb plot have come and ally recovered. It hasn’t gone for decades. They’ve topped 30% since 2005. prospered, as much as The discontent creatanywhere, in rural parts ed fertile ground for anof states like Kansas. ti-government activists The belief that gov- seeking to expand their ernment — particularly influence when the farm the federal government hit Page middle randy.3.75x4.2021.qxp_Layout 1 3/8/21crisis 10:52 AM 1 America — has turned its back on in the early 1980s.

Squeezed by soaring inflation and low crop prices — caused in part by an embargo on grain sales to the Soviet Union — debt-strapped farmers lost their land at a pace not seen since the Great Depression and were looking for someone, or something, to blame.

In stepped people like William Potter Gale, the leader of an anti-government group called the Posse Comitatus with a ready answer. In taped sermons circulated through a loose network of anti-government groups and broadcast on some rural radio stations, Gale said Jewish bankers and corrupt federal officials conspired to oppress white Christians.

“We’re gonna cleanse our land … and we’re gonna do it with a sword,” Gale said in a January 1983 broadcast on KTTL, a powerful Dodge City radio station that reached listeners in several states.

A retired Army officer and self-styled minister in the racist Christian Identity movement, Gale urged his followers to “arise and fight.”

“You’re damn right I’m teaching violence,” he said. “It’s about time somebody is telling you to get violent, whitey.”

Danny Levitas writes about Gale’s appeal to farmers in “The Terrorist Next Door,” a book that chronicles the rise of anti-government groups

over the last 50 years. “(Gale) was speaking to rural people about what was directly going on in their lives,” Levitas said in an interview. “He told them that an international Jewish conspiracy was intent on taking their land. So they should arm themselves and be prepared to ‘slaughter’ Jews and corrupt bureaucrats in Washington, D.C.” Gale traveled the country with James Wickstrom, the Posse’s director of counterinsurgency, conducting para-military training exercises. In March 1982, they set up shop on a farm near Weskan, a small town in northwest Kansas. There, over three days, they schooled about 50 heavily armed volunteers in guerilla warfare tactics.

Staging ground for domestic terrorism A fictional version of the battle that Gale called for plays out in The Turner Diaries, a 1978 novel by William Pierce, founder of the neo-Nazi National Alliance.

Often described as “the bible of the racist right,” the book tells the story of Earl Turner, a “patriot” fighting to take the country back from a government controlled by Jews, African Americans and other non-whites.

It was adopted by rightwing extremists because it answered an important question, said Kathleen Belew, a University of Chicago historian and author of several books on the white-power movement.

“That question is, how could a small fringe movement hope to achieve what it set out to do in the 1980s and has been trying to do ever since, which is to violently overthrow the United States,” Belew said on the NPR podcast Throughline.

One of the missions that Turner carries out in the book is to blow up the FBI building in Washington, D.C. That fictional attack on a government stronghold is widely believed to have inspired

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Timothy McVeigh to carry out the deadliest act of domestic terrorism in U.S. history — the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal building in Oklahoma City in 1995.

“McVeigh followed the Turner Diaries almost to the letter,” Belew said.

McVeigh was a former soldier who had served with the 1st Infantry Division based at Fort Riley, Kansas. He won a Bronze Star for bravery in the Persian Gulf War, but he left the Army after washing out of special forces training.

By the time of his discharge in 1991, McVeigh despised the federal government. He traveled the gun show circuit selling survivalist gear and copies of The Turner Diaries.

In March 1993, he showed up in Waco, Texas, to protest the siege of a compound occupied by members of the Branch Davidian religious sect, whom federal agents believed were heavily armed.

After the standoff ended in the fiery deaths of 76 members of the sect, McVeigh began planning what he would later call

his “counter attack” against the government for waging “open warfare” against American citizens.

“I was only fighting by the rules of engagement that were introduced by the aggressor,” McVeigh said in prison interview.

“Waco started this war.”

Two years to the day after Waco, McVeigh triggered a massive truck bomb in Oklahoma City.

The blast reduced the Murrah Federal Building to rubble, killing 168 people and injuring another 450.

McVeigh made final preparations for the attack — including building the bomb — in Junction City, Kansas, just a few miles from the base where he and co-conspirator and fellow Army veteran Terry Nichols were once stationed.

The insurrection

More than 500 people — including at least seven from Kansas — have been charged with federal crimes for invading the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6.

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Financial Focus

Is Roth IRA Better for Young Workers?

If you’re in the early stages of your career, you’re probably not thinking much about retirement. Nonetheless, it’s never too soon to start preparing for it, as time may be your most valuable asset. So, you may want to consider retirement savings vehicles, one of which is an IRA. Depending on your income, you might have the choice between a traditional IRA and a Roth IRA. Which is better for you?

There’s no one correct answer for everyone. But the more you know about the two IRAs, the more confident you’ll be when choosing one.

First of all, the IRAs share some similarities. You can fund either one with many types of investments – stocks, bonds, mutual funds and so on. And the contribution limit is also the same – you can put in up to $6,000 a year. (Those older than 50 can put in an additional $1,000.) If you earn over a certain amount, though, your ability to contribute to a Roth IRA is reduced. In 2021, you can put in the full $6,000 if your modified adjusted gross income (MAGI) is less than $125,000 and you’re single, or $198,000 if you’re married and file jointly. The amount you can contribute gradually declines, and is eventually limited, at higher income levels.

But the two IRAs differ greatly in how they are taxed. Traditional IRA contributions are typically tax-deductible (subject to income limitations), and any earnings are tax-deferred, with taxes due when you take withdrawals. With a Roth IRA, though, your contributions are never tax-deductible – instead, you contribute after-tax dollars. Earnings are tax-free when withdrawn, provided you’ve had your account at least five years and you don’t take withdrawals until you’re at least 59.

So, which IRA should you choose? You’ll have to weigh the respective benefits of both types. But when you’re young, you may have particularly compelling reasons to choose a Roth IRA. Given that you’re at an early point in your career, you may be in a lower tax bracket now than you will be during retirement, making the tax-deduction of traditional IRA contributions less beneficial. So, it may make sense to contribute to a Roth IRA now and take tax-free withdrawals when you’re retired.

Also, a Roth IRA offers more flexibility. With a traditional IRA, you could face an early withdrawal penalty, in addition to taxes, if you take money out before you’re 59 . But with a Roth, you’ll face no penalty on withdrawals from the money you contributed (not your earnings), and you’ve already paid the taxes, so you could use the money for any purpose, such as making a down payment on a home. Nonetheless, you may still want to be cautious about tapping into your IRA for your spending needs before you retire, since IRAs are designed to provide retirement income.

If your income level permits you to select a Roth or traditional IRA, you may want to consult with your tax advisor for help in making your choice. But in any case, try to max out on your IRA contributions each year. You could spend two or three decades in retirement – and your IRA can be a valuable resource to help you enjoy those years.

This article was written by Edward Jones for use by your local Edward Jones Financial Advisor.

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Affordable health insurance a lifeline As of July 1, anyone who has received at least one week of unemployment benefits since the first of 2021, can receive health insurance at little to no expense, thanks to the American Rescue Plan, the federal government’s most recent COVID relief bill signed on March 11.

The reduced-rate insurance is through the Affordable Care Act and is even for those who have since landed jobs or are already enrolled with the federal health care plan.

We’re talking about $10 monthly rates, folks, good for the rest of 2021.

Sign-up is from now until Aug. 15. Go to healthcare.gov for more information or contact Thrive Allen County at 620-3658128 and ask for Greta.

The benefit is only for those who cannot access health insurance from either their spouse or their employer. Experts predict an estimated 1 million Americans will take advantage of the offer.

To our shame, a disproportionate amount of the takers will be from the dozen states — including Kansas — that have yet to expand Medicaid, the federal health insurance program that provides for the indigent and disabled.

THE GOAL of the su-

per-affordable insurance is to make health care during this health crisis more available.

News flash: The pandemic is still with us. And with only 42% of Allen County adults fully vaccinated against COVID-19, the chances of a resurgence greatly will rise again when the cold weath-

er forces us inside.

Health experts say we need a 75% to 80% vaccination rate to achieve herd immunity, when enough people are vaccinated to protect those unable to receive the vaccine — including those 12 and younger — from contracting the virus.

Neosho County registers a dismal 26% vaccination rate. As a whole, 53% of Kansas adults are fully vaccinated.

We can, and must, do better.

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HEALTHCARE remains one of the biggest expenses for American families, with the average cost of health insurance for a family of four about $21,400 a year. A little more than one-half of employers offer health insurance, typically picking up anywhere from 50% to 75% of the cost of premiums.

But as costs increase — and they do — that’s becoming an untenable burden. Since 2010, family premiums have increased an average of 55%, at least twice as fast as wages (27%) and inflation (19%), according to the Kaiser Family Institute.

And the amount employees pay toward their outof-pocket costs before insurance fully kicks in has more than doubled over the past 10 years. With the two factors coupled, insurance costs have risen 110% in a decade for working Americans.

If you need health insurance, call today. Such a deal is truly a once-in-alifetime offer.

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President Joe Biden speaks alongside Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and Miami Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava about the collapse of the 12-story Champlain Towers South condo building in Surfside, during a briefing in Miami Beach, July 1, 2021. (SAUL LOEB/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES/TNS)

Biden’s small gesture speaks volumes The president called it “remarkable.” And, with just a touch of his hand, he showed us what “remarkable” really meant.

President Joe Biden came to Florida on Thursday, Surfside, specifically, to see for himself the incredible aftermath of an unimaginable event — the collapse of the Champlain Towers South.

During his time in the small, stunned town, he listened to family members’ stories that were riddled with pain, bewilderment, resignation.

He had empathetic and en-

Dear editor,

It’s not about the color of your skin, where you came from, your sexual orientation, gender neutrality, who’s right and who’s wrong.

It’s about the freedom to be able to choose any of those above. It’s about our right to live and move freely in a country without fear or retribution. It’s about working where you want, when you want and with whom you want, free to

It’s patently foolish to cede operational control of military assets to political donors. The idea that a private citizen can direct military units with his checkbook violates principles of self-governence. It converts soldiers into private security contractors at best, mercenaries at worst

committed to sending law enforcement officers to the border. Texas will be on the hook to pay for those deployments.

The fact that Texas isn’t funding the South Dakota cadre makes it different, and potentially problematic legally, though that’s a point that will likely suffer much debate in coming weeks.

The larger point here is about precedent and wisdom.

It’s patently foolish to cede operational control of military assets to political donors.

The idea that a private citizen can direct military units with his checkbook violates principles of self-governance.

It converts soldiers into private security contractors at best, mercenaries at worst. It moves the country away from democracy toward oligarchy.

It gives rise to something policy analysts call “privilege violence” in which security becomes a commodity rather than a right. If a donor can decide that the border is a military priority for South Dakota, could he make a similar decision about deploying

rival, U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz one day, and Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava on another — both Democrats.

But a photo of our governor, sitting next to our president who, as he talks to local leaders, lightly places his hand on DeSantis arm, is the most moving of all.

It’s an unconscious and uninhibited show of a shared humanity. It’s a natural, but still remarkable, gesture that we hope will set tone for the challenging steps ahead.

— The Miami Herald

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Texas should say no to N.D. troops At the direction of a political donor, the state of South Dakota is deploying National Guard troops to the border in South Texas. This is a bad idea, and raises legal concerns.

As reported by multiple outlets, Tennessee billionaire Willis Johnson sent South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem $1 million to pay for the deployment, telling Politico, “I’m trying to help out the governor and help America.”

But Johnson’s action here, and any endorsement of it by Noem or Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, will do just the opposite, because it violates longstanding precedents related to military oversight and democracy.

First, there’s the legal question.

The federal government usually pays for National Guard deployments to other states. When non-federalized troops are sent from one state to another, the requesting state pays for it, under the Emergency Management Assistance Compact, or EMAC. According to EMAC’s website, “any expense, except worker’s compensation costs, incurred while performing an EMAC mission is reimbursable provided that the expense is reasonable, mission-related, incurred during the conduct of the mission, and can be documented.”

According to reporting from NPR, Republican governors from Arkansas, Florida, Nebraska and Iowa have all

couraging words for first responders.

He called “remarkable” the cooperation between local, state and federal agencies, all working together to find all the victims of the collapse and — in the longer term — find out why this structure fell.

After almost 18 months of a highly politicized response — or maybe non-response — to the deadly coronavirus, in this state and others across the nation, it is breathtaking to see Florida’s Republican Gov. DeSantis standing shoulder to shoulder with political

troops to Mount Rushmore?

The U.S. Capitol? His beach house during vacation?

We asked Abbott’s office whether he shares our concern about privately funded military action. As of press time, there was no reply.

We’re not enthusiastic about national guard troops leaving their home states without a federal mission, but we’re even more troubled by the idea of letting a private citizen fund that action.

Throughout history, the experience of weaker democracies has made this lesson clear: When democratically elected, civilian government loses a monopoly on military force, things get out of hand.

The factor voters should be considering here is not about the wisdom of privately funded military action. That, obviously, should be condemned.

The real question at play here is how far Abbott will go to protect his right flank between now and next year’s election.

— The Dallas Morning News

choose who you love, live and work with. It’s about family, whether you were born into it, or became a part of a family.

In the U.S.A., you are free to teach each other about where you came from, how you got here and how much you love your country for this freedom, regardless of how you got here. This is a fierce, formidable country that will protect us when we are threatened even if we are in turmoil within

our own borders.

July 4 is about a flag that flew when we thought all was lost, yet our ancestors persevered and were victorious and we carried on working and building this country together.

July 4 is our day to celebrate our freedoms with no hate, but happiness, and a commitment to keep making this country even greater.

— Alzina Kress, Iola, Kan.

It’s Joe’s economy now Rationally or irrationally, presidents are credited or blamed for the economy. Barack Obama brought the country back, albeit too haltingly, from a deep recession. Donald Trump built on those gains, keeping unemployment low and the jobs machine revving until COVID-19, and his abysmal management of the public health crisis, sent trendlines and livelihoods in free fall.

Joe Biden’s charge has been to control the pandemic and put the country back on sound footing, while finally addressing unmet needs and entrenched inequalities that have festered for generations.

For months, Republicans have gloated while, in the wake of Biden’s American Rescue Plan, job creation has lagged and inflation has reared its head. An economy that should be reopening and resurging has been flagging, and that, they’ve argued, is reason against Biden’s multitrillion-dollar, economy-reshaping plans to rebuild infrastructure and help families raise their kids.

The argument is odd: Arguably, a limping private sector would more powerfully make the case for increased Washington

investment as Biden prescribes, while one comfortably jogging wouldn’t seem to need a dramatic infusion of additional spending. But here in the U.S.A., nothing succeeds like success, which means that Biden has had to show that his plans, to date, are working to get any wind at his back as he urges additional action.

June’s job report delivered the necessary jolt. The economy added 850,000 jobs, its biggest jump in 10 months, as the number of job seekers grew. Compared to February 2020, the month before COVID-19 walloped the nation, hourly wages are now up 6.6%. Inflation remains a threat but is being outpaced by rising incomes. Meantime, consumer confidence is at its highest point since before the cataclysm.

With the emergency surgery seemingly complete, the recovery can now continue. While it need not spend quite as much as he has prescribed, Washington should press ahead with much of Biden’s ambitious, restorative agenda to enhance American competitiveness and strengthen family finances. This patient is off the operating table; physical therapy can begin.

— New York Daily News

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Haiti’s president assassinated Agent: Plans local test plots Continued from A1

P O RT- AU - P R I N C E , Haiti (AP) — Haitian President Jovenel Moïse was assassinated in an attack on his private residence early today, according to a statement from the country’s interim prime minister, who called the killing a “hateful, inhumane and barbaric act.”

First Lady Martine Moïse was shot in the overnight attack and hospitalized, interim Premier Claude Joseph said.

Even before the assassination, Haiti had grown increasingly unstable and disgruntled under Moïse. The president ruled by decree for more than two years after the country failed to hold elections and the opposition demanded he step down in recent months.

“The country’s security situation is under the control of the National Police of Haiti and the Armed Forces of Haiti,” Joseph said in a statement from his office. “Democracy and the republic will win.”

Joseph said police have been deployed to the National Palace and the upscale community

au-Prince, inflation spiraling and food and fuel becoming scarcer at times in a country where 60% of the population makes less than $2 a day.

These troubles come as Haiti still tries to recover from the devastating 2010 earthquake and Hurricane Matthew that struck in 2016.

Jovenel Moïse (WIKIPEDIA) of Pétionville and will be sent to other areas.

The White House described the attack as “horrific” and “tragic” and said it was still gathering information on what happened. U.S. President Joe Biden will be briefed later today by his national security team, spokesperson Jen Psaki said during an interview on MSNBC. “The message to the people of Haiti is this is a tragic tragedy,” she during a previously scheduled interview on CNN. “We stand ready and stand by them to provide any assistance that’s needed.”

Haiti’s economic, political and social woes have deepened recently, with gang violence spiking heavily in Port-

OPPOSITION leaders accused Moïse, who was 53, of seeking to increase his power, including by approving a decree that limited the powers of a court that audits government contracts and another that created an intelligence agency that answers only to the president.

In recent months, opposition leaders demanded the he step down, arguing that his term legally ended in February 2021. Moïse and supporters maintained that his term began when he took office in early 2017, following a chaotic election that forced the appointment of a provisional president to serve during a year-long gap.

Haiti was scheduled to hold general elections later this year.

ers right now because they’re out in the fields.”

GUTHRIE hopes his experience in the field of research will be a big bonus for local farmers.

He spent the summers of 2019 and 2020 as an intern on a Monsanto research farm learning about test plots and other aspects of the research process. During this time, Monsanto merged with Bayer, creating a global ag giant in a $66 billion deal. Bayer, a German drugmaker and chemical giant, dropped the Monsanto name.

“I got to see a lot of things coming down the pipeline from a really large seed and chemical company,” he said. “I got to see how they test certain chemicals and certain seeds.

What gets thrown out.

What gets to stay.”

Guthrie said the experience gives him insight as to how universities and big companies conduct their research and release information to the public.

“I can decipher

what is marketing and what is real information, and relay that to the producers in the Southwind Extension District,” he said.

Guthrie said he plans to establish research test plots in the area. K-State offers agronomy experimental stations in various parts of the state, but none locally. Instead, the majority are in Ottawa, Topeka, Hutchinson and North Central Kansas near Belleville and Scandia.

That information isn’t quite as relevant to farmers here, Guthrie said.

“The soil structure and rainfall patterns here are different,” he said.

“Hopefully, we’ll be able to do some test plots in the area and show them techniques to improve their management.”

That process will take some time.

Guthrie plans to start reaching out to producers and create a cooperative agreement for land likely early next year. After the trials begin, it will take a few years to collect data.

“I’m open to producers reaching out to me and getting to know me,” he said. “I need to know what producers in the area want to know, so we aren’t wasting time and money on research nobody wants.”

GUTHRIE hails from Holdridge, Neb., in the south-central part of the state.

He grew up with an agricultural background and was part of 4-H and FFA. He recently graduated from the University of Nebraska, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in agronomy with a minor in grazing livestock systems.

He had never been to southeast Kansas until recently, though a former co-worker at Monsanto is from this area.

“I really liked the agricultural diversity in this area, how farmers and ranchers handle cattle forages and row crops,” he said.

“I felt like there was a need for someone with agronomy knowledge. I’m excited to be here and ready to field all kinds of questions.”

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media posts and walk-in appointments.

The variant surge comes as testing for the virus in Kansas has fallen off sharply. In June, the state posted its lowest numbers since April 2020, when testing resources were scarce.

The dearth of surveillance testing among broad portions of the population, experts say, could damage health officials’ ability to monitor infection and intervene early to prevent serious illness or death.

“The ability to intervene early on with proper therapeutics is key to keeping hospitalizations down,” said Alan Morgan, Executive Director of the National Rural Health Association. “I worry we’re now flying blind again, just like we did at the beginning of the pandemic.”

According to the Centers for Disease Control 62% of Kansans 18 and older have received at least their first dose of vaccine, while 53% have completed the series.

It put the state significantly short of President Biden’s July 4 goal of 70% with at least one shot. Twenty states cleared that bar.

The 62% also obscures wide disparities among the state’s 105 counties.

Johnson and Douglas counties in eastern Kansas, and Geary and Graham Counties, closer to the north central part of the state, have all surpassed 70% of adults with at least their first dose, according to the CDC. Neosho County, in Southeast Kansas, has vaccinated only 26% of adults, the state’s lowest total.

CDC data shows the majority of Kansas counties sitting between 30 and 50 percent vaccinated among adults.

Meanwhile, the Delta variant has become the dominant strain in the state with 289 confirmed cases, hitting Sedgwick, Johnson, Riley and Crawford counties par-

ticularly hard.

“The fatigue is real but now is not the time to check out,” said Marci Nielsen, Gov. Laura Kelly’s chief advisor for COVID-19, who attributed the state’s efforts to get vaccine doses to rural counties early in the year for its relatively high vaccination rate compared with Missouri.

Jen Kates, Senior Vice President at the Kaiser Family Foundation, said testing is essential for low-vaccination areas because they’re at higher risk of outbreaks.

“Testing does two things, first of all it helps show where there are potential outbreaks that need to be addressed and checks for variants,” she said.

Lack of testing, she said, is “problematic” and may mean hospitalization and death are a better indication of viral spread.

In June, Kansas ran 29,735 diagnostic tests for the virus. That’s fewer than half the number performed in April 2020 and a small fraction of testing at its peak in November.

Dr. Linda Bean, the Chief Clinical Officer at the Community Health Center of Southeast Kansas and deputy health officer for Crawford County, said she viewed that as a result of the vaccine. With fewer people in the community getting sick, fewer were getting tested.

“That has decreased as the number of sick people have decreased,” Bean said. “Our biggest push is for people who are symptomatic or have been exposed to get tested.”

As the Delta variant began spreading across Southwest Missouri, more people were coming in because they’d been exposed to the virus. The clinic ramped up testing and identified more cases.

Over the past two weeks, 18% of COVID-19 tests run in Crawford County have been posi-

tive, a sign of increasing community spread and inadequate surveillance testing.

Just south of Crawford, Cherokee County’s positivity rate is 27%. In Crawford, where Pittsburg is located, 46% of residents 18 and up have had at least one dose while 42% of adults in Cherokee County are vaccinated.

As more cases are identified hospital capacity is shrinking.

Crawford counties are now averaging five and six new cases each day. As of Friday, there were only two open ICU beds in Pittsburg’s hospital — six were filled by COVID-19 patients.

Once the Pittsburg hospital is full, the first option for ICU patients is in Joplin, Missouri.

But as of Friday, Freeman West was serving 42 COVID patients with a full ICU, Mercy Hospital has admitted 37 COVID-19 patients and only had 9 remaining ICU beds.

Once area hospitals are full, patients in Southeast Kansas will need to be transported north to Kansas City.

“Even though we have seen a little bit of an increase in cases recently, it’s nothing to the level that we were,” Bean said. “Primarily unvaccinated people are the new cases and the ones that we’re seeing in the hospital.”

Morgan, with the Rural Healthcare Association, said, it’s harder to keep patients out of the ICUs without robust testing.

“It’s really difficult from a resource perspective and from a public health perspective to get a good sense about what’s happening in rural America when you’re not having (testing).”

Bean said her hope is that recent spikes can be brought under control by the fall, when weather cools and kids return to school.

“The vaccine is the game changer,” Bean said.

Vaccinations, she said, are essential to keeping the stress off hospitals as their regular surge of flu and respiratory patients arrive in the fall and winter.

A partnership with

KU Health and federal dollars are helping the community center offer several vaccination and testing clinics. They’re planning events across the Southeast corner of the state and are trying to talk a Pittsburg bar into a “shot for a shot”

campaign when college students return to campus in August.

Mijares, the pediatrician, said plenty of people are interested in getting the vaccine but need more information before they’ll take the leap.

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pair company a map of which roads to drive, in connection with the Road Use Agreement between the county and wind farm.

REGARDING the timeline for budget decisions for fiscal year 2022, commissioner Bruce Symes said he’d like to have allocations finalized by the latter part of the month.

Several local agencies that the county assists, along with various county departments, must submit yearly budget requests to the commission.

“We’ve heard from most, but not all, of our department heads and our outside agencies that we fund,” Symes observed.

“But anybody with an increase of more than 2-3 percent, I’d like to hear the justification for it.”

That is, any increases beyond those for yearly

Terry Call talks about upcoming repairs at the Prairie Queen Wind Farm, such as replacing blades. salary/cost of living increases.

ANOTHER money-related question involved what is known as the Revenue Neutral Rate, and whether or not to have a public hearing on the matter.

According to clerk Sherri Riebel, “if you do not have a hearing, you can’t levy for anything more than

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you did in 2021, monetary-wise.”

In response, Daniels recalled the good news that Allen County’s valuation had increased $6 million in the past year (from $146 to $152 million).

“Basically the county is worth $6 million more, where we’ve expanded or grown our assets,” Daniels observed.

“A lot of our assets in

the county or property have become more valuable. That’s a testament to the hard work being done in the county,” he added.

In short, a greater valuation means a greater chance of remaining revenue neutral without making budgetary sacrifices.

Daniels mentioned that he was reappointed to the state’s 911 council, for which he’d just received confirmation from Gov. Laura Kelly.

Daniels’s term lasts three years.

Commissioners also signed a memorandum of understanding between the county and K-State’s Southwind Extension District regarding their new building on North State Street in Iola.

According to the agreement, the county will assist Southwind with building and other maintenance such as mowing and roof repairs.

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held responsible for their actions because they believed they were acting on Trump’s orders.

“They were betrayed by somebody in whom they placed their faith,” Al Watkins, told The New York Times. “They’re like the followers of (suicide cult leader) Jim Jones.

The only thing missing is the Kool-Aid.” Watkins represents Jacob Chansley, the socalled QAnon Shaman who stormed the Capitol in a Viking-like costume.

Many of the rioters belong to modern-day white supremacist groups whose core beliefs mirror those of the Posse Comitatus and others once in the vanguard of the Christian Identify movement.

“It’s impossible to disconnect the insurrectionists of Jan. 6 from the ravings of William Potter Gale almost 50 years before when he encouraged his followers to hang traitors to the Constitution,”

said Levitas, the author who’s written about domestic terrorism.

Charges filed against William Chrestman and Christopher Kuehn, both of Olathe, identify them as members of the Proud Boys, a white nationalist group that gained notoriety for carrying torches and chanting “Jews will not replace us” at a 2017 protest against the removal of confederate monuments in Charlottesville, Va. Video footage from Jan. 6 shows Chrestman turning to the mob as it surged toward the entrance to the Capitol and shouting: “Whose House is this?”

When several in the crowd responded, “Our house,” Chrestman shouted back, “take it.”

Will Pope, a former Topeka City Council candidate, was also in that mob.

After the riot he defended its actions on Facebook.

“The people wanted their house back, so they took it,” he wrote.

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Lightning set sights on Cup

By STEPHEN WHYNO The Associated Press

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — When the Chicago Blackhawks won the Stanley Cup on home ice for the first time since before World War II, Jon Cooper could not bear to watch the joyful aftermath.

“I’m looking away from the whole thing,” he said.

Cooper’s Tampa Bay Lightning had just lost the 2015 series in six games after their first trip to the final of what turned out to be three times in seven years. Even after winning it all in 2020, he vividly remembers the feeling of watching Chicago players celebrating the team’s first Cup-clinching win on home ice since 1938.

“There’s that excruciating minute or two you have to afford the team to celebrate,” Cooper said. “I think that’s just a poignant moment in sports when that happens, out of respect, and then the respect the captain has on the winning team to rally his troops to get in the handshake line.”

That was captain Steven Stamkos’ job last fall when Tampa Bay beat Dallas, even though he didn’t play in the clinching game. If he and the Lightning finish off the Montreal Canadiens in Game 5 Wednesday night or do it in Game 7, Stamkos should get the proper chance to rally his teammates, and they’d be the See CUP | Page B2

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Indians claim double victories By the Register staff

The Iola Indians AA Legion won both games against Montgomery County Tuesday night in Riverside Park.

The Indians won Game 1, 6-3, and Game 2, 10-4.

Game 1 was a thriller, as the Indians battled to break a 3-3 tie in the bottom of the sixth when TJ Taylor singled on a 0-2 count, scoring one run.

Brayden Cole pitched the Indians to victory. The right-handed pitcher went seven innings, allowing three runs on two hits, striking out nine and walking zero.

The Indians had a total of 10 hits in the game. Cole and Ryker Curry each collected multiple hits for the Indians. Cole went 3-for-3 at the plate to lead the Indians See INDIANS | Page B2

Brayden Cole winds up the pitch to lead the Indians to victory over Montgomery County, Tuesday night in Riverside Park. REGISTER/KLAIR VOGEL

Junior Legion blows out Garnett Muddogs By the Register staff

GARNETT — The Iola A Indians swept the Garnett Muddogs in a double-header Tuesday night.

The Indians cruised to an easy victory in Game 1, winning 13-1.

Brandon McKarnin led things off on the mound for the Indians. The Southpaw went three innings, allowing zero runs on zero hits, striking out five and walking one.

The Indians racked up 12 hits, with Sam Hull, Trey Sommer, Gavin Page, and Carter Hutton having a big

night.

“Hutton, Page, Sommer, and Hull each collected two hits to lead the Indians in hits. The Indians tore up the base paths, as four players stole at least two bases. It was a good night. We had four or five kids hit the ball well,” said Coach Bob Johnson Jr. Sommer led the way with three. The Indians didn’t commit a single error in the field. Hutton had the most chances in the field with five.

In Game 2, the Indians asserted their will over the Muddogs with a 12-2 victory.

The Indians fired up the offense in the first inning.

Brandon McKarnin grounded out but in the process brought in a run.

The Indians pulled away for good with two runs in the second inning. Briggs Michael had a walk, and scored one run. Gavin Page’s sac fly also scored one run for the Indians.

The Indians scored five runs in the fourth inning, with walks by Rogan Weir, Trevor Church and Landon Weide, and singles by MiSee LEGION | Page B2

Rec scores Pigtail League Farm Bureau 9, State Farm 0. Hits for Farm Bureau, Lynnex Allen 2s, Jaydie Combs s, Elliot Sigg s, d, Addilyn Wacker s, d, Emma Bradford s, Jordan Allen 2s, Gracelynn Yoder 2s, Ember Friend s, Jemma Womelsdorf s. Hits for State Farm, Aaliyah Rhodes 3s, Kayleigh Merrill 2s, Tarra Sailor s.

KwiKom Communications 3, Nelson Quarries 12. Hits for KwiKom Communications, Leanna Flory s, d, Cayleigh Rutherford 2s, Blayke Patterson s, Piper Jordan s, Mariah Mathis s, d, McKenzie Hamilton See SCORES | Page B2

Pérez’s RBI single caps 4-run 9th as Royals beat Reds Silver: NBA weathered pandemic financially

By DAVID SMALE The Associated Press

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Salvador Pérez’s walk-off single capped Kansas City’s four-run rally as the Royals beat the Cincinnati Reds 7-6 Tuesday night.

The Royals scored six runs off the Reds’ bullpen in the final two innings and Pérez got his third game-ending hit this season.

“There are not a lot of people in their major league career that get an opportunity to celebrate a walk-off,” Royals manager Mike Matheny said of Pérez’s heroics. “You can attribute it to as much luck as you want to. I’m not buying it. There are just special people in that situation, and Salvy is one of them.”

Trailing 6-3 to start the ninth, the Royals got the tying run on second with no outs without the benefit of a hit. Ryan O’Hearn walked and Hunter Dozier was hit by a pitch. Michael A. Taylor then rolled a ground ball through the legs of Eugenio Suarez at third, scoring O’Hearn.

With one out, Nicky Lopez flared a ball into short left field, scoring both runners to tie it 6-6. He went to second on the throw, then advanced

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The Kansas City Royals’ Andrew Benintendi, left, and Jarrod Dyson (1) rush to congratulate Salvador Perez (13) after his game-winning walk-off single to defeat the Cincinnati Reds, 7-6, in the ninth inning at Kauffman Stadium on Tuesday1 in Kansas City, Missouri. (JAMIE SQUIRE/GETTY IMAGES/TNS)

to third on an error on left fielder Aristides Aquino.

Whit Merrifield walked and Andrew Benintendi struck out, bringing Pérez to the plate.

“I kind of changed my sights a little bit,” Lopez said.

“I kind of got a little pull-happy (earlier in the game). I tried to see something a little deeper. I got jammed pretty good, but I was able to get it

to the left side.”

Richard Lovelady (2-0) picked up the win. Heath Hembree (2-4) took the loss.

“They’ve been so good,” Reds manager David Bell said of his bullpen. “With a five-run lead, the way they’ve been pitching, you expect them to get it done. If a couple of plays go a different way it could be a different outcome.”

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Kyle Farmer and Tyler Stephenson each had three hits for the Reds. Farmer’s three hits included a double and a two-run home run.

Luis Castillo, whose record stood a 2-9 on June 10, turned in his fifth straight quality start, but to no avail.

He allowed one run and three hits over seven innings. He struck out four and walked one.

PHOENIX (AP) — The NBA may emerge from the pandemic on better financial footing than it first anticipated, though Commissioner Adam Silver warned Tuesday that it’s too early to declare things fully back to normal.

Silver, at his annual preNBA Finals news conference, said he believes the league weathered the pandemic and all that came with it — including much less revenue from the lack of fans in arenas for much of the last 15 months — relatively well, noting that even he was surprised to see many teams were able to have full buildings during the playoffs.

“Financially, for the season, without getting into it too specifically, we did somewhat better than we initially projected,” Silver said.

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Masonic Lodge 5, Emprise Bank 9. Hits for Masonic Lodge, Noah Schowengerdt 2s, d, Austin Crooks 3s, Brock Micheal s, Corbin Bowers s, Evan LaCrone 3s, Kolton Hanson s, Truman Grzybowski s.

Hits for Emprise Bank, Kale Pratt s, d, Henry White 2t, HR, Kolton Northcutt s, HR,

Channing Kett hits the ball during her make-up game from last week’s rained-out game Tuesday night in Riverside Park.

Easton Weseloh d, Kele Michael 2s, Grady Allen s.

Iola Insurance Associates 12, Nelson Quarries 13. Hits for Iola Insurance, Kolton Hanson 3s, Judah Stockebrand 2s, Tre Wilson 2s, 2HR, Nick Bauer 3s, Kason Porter 2s, Kolton Northcutt 2s, Jubel Stockebrand s. Hits for Nelson Quarries, Reed Clift 2s, d, Ty Shaughnessy 3s, Brennon Coffield d, HR, Hayden Kelley 2s, Truman Grzybowski 2s, Caden Coltrane 3s, Mason Lampe s, Landon Shelton d, Brycen Baker 2s.

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Iola Transmission 1 Sonic Drive-In 14. Hits for Iola Transmission, Easton Rutherford 3s, Grayson Lisher

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3s, Cohen Sigg s, Cain Fehr 2s, Gavin Granere s, Quenton Shaughnessy s. Hits For Sonic, Knox Hufford 4s, Craig Ballard s, Logan Erbert 3s, Asaiah Lee 3s, Havick Westerman 3s, Sam Underhill 3s, Henry Gabbert s, Fisher Frazell 3s, Jaxin Perry 3s.

Sigg Motors 7 A&W Restaurant 8. Hits for Sigg Motors, Lyam Young 2s, d, Lincoln Neely 2s, Owen Hesse 3s, Brighton Hammer 3s, Sebastian Hays 2s, Israel Evans 3s, Michael Evans s, Lane Willard 2s. Hits for A&W Restaurant, Brady Thomas 4s, Abram Droessler 3s, Brigham Smith 2s, Jentry Mueller s, Jase Michael 3s, Bentlee Patterson 3s, Archie Specht 3s.

Indians: Sweep

Continued from A1

Continued from A1

chael and Jarrett Herrmann.

Mac Leonard was on the pitcher’s mound for the Indians. Leonard pitched two innings, allowing three hits and two runs while striking out one and walking one.

“We were able to get a few kids in who have not pitched for us lately,” said Johnson.

Page went 2-for-2 at the plate to lead the Indians in hits. The Indians were sure-handed and didn’t commit a single error. Carter Hutton made the most plays with six. The Indians tore up the base paths, as three players stole at least two bases. Page led the way with four.

Cup: Chance to win at home Continued from A1

for Nelson Quarries, Kinzley Fountain s, 3d, Keaunna Willair 3s, d, Evie Schooler 3s, Wren Clift d, Moira Springer 2s, Nakola Lawrence 2s, Payton Holt 2s, Stephanie Perry 3s.

State Farm 16, A&W Restaurant 8. Hits for State Farm, Lainey Church 2s, d, Rylee Weast 2s, 2d, Nora Combs 2s, d, Alivia Coltrane 3s, Autumn Buchanan 3s, Scarlett Murry 3s, Hayden Appling 2s. Hits for A&W Restaurant, Alexis Sivey 5s, Olivia Webber 3s, Kalie Insley 2s, d, Bailey Statler 2s, Lakelynn Ivy 4s, Hope Sweat s.

Sigg Motors 12, Iola Insurance Associates 4. Hits for Sigg Motors, Jo Newland 3s, d, Maylee Bain 4s, Hadley Wools 3s, Emery Sigg 4s, Penny Womelsdorf 4s, Alena Smail 4s, BriElla Drybread 3s.

Hits for Iola Insurance Associates, Olivia Appling 2s, Shakyia Trester 3s, Elisa Irby 2s, Riley McGinnis s, Henley Hesse s, Viviana Garcia s, Ecclesia Evans s.

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in hits.

IN GAME 2, the Indians scored six runs in the third inning, to ease their way to a 10-4 victory.

TJ Taylor, Drake DeLaTorre, Cooper Riley and Nathan Louk each collected RBIs in the third inning. Taylor singled, and scored one run. DeLaTorre doubled, and scored two runs. Riley singled, and scored one

run. And Louk singled, bringing in a runner.

Aiden Jones led the Indians to victory on the mound. Jones allowed five hits and four runs over five innings, striking out three and walking zero.

DeLaTorre led the Indians with two hits in two at bats. The Indians were sure-handed in the field and did not commit a single error. Riley had the most chances in the field with four.

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the first team since Chicago to win the Cup at home.

Every clincher since has been on the road or at a neutral site.

Pittsburgh won at San Jose in 2016 and at Nashville in 2017.

Washington became the first NHL team to party with the Cup in Las Vegas in 2018. St. Louis blew a chance to win at home before winning in Boston in 2019, and then of course Tampa Bay did it in an empty arena in Edmonton last year.

The rare chance to do this is perhaps one reason Tampa Mayor Jane Castor asked the Lightning to lose Game 4 so they can win

at home. Her comments ruffled feathers among fans and others in hockey and she got her wish, although Tampa Bay was going all out to complete the sweep.

“Let me tell you, I think any fan of any team if you gave the option to win the Stanley Cup or take your chances, I think the fan base would have loved if we had come home with the Stanley Cup,” Cooper said after a 3-2 overtime loss Monday that kept the series going.

Now that they didn’t?

“It’s weird: Maybe this is the way it was meant to be, and that’s how it’s going to play out,” Cooper said. “But two teams still that got

to play the games, and the game’s decided in the trenches and hopefully we can give our fans that gift.”

Veteran defenseman Ryan McDonagh took comfort in going home to “a place you’re familiar with, with a fan base that’s going to be behind” the Lightning.

Over 17,000 fans are allowed inside Amalie Arena, a far cry from none in Edmonton and the 3,500 in Montreal.

“Our fans have been unbelievable all season through the ups and downs, so to go back to Amalie and play for our fans is always is always pretty special,” center Anthony Cirelli said. “And just an opportunity.”

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Further information and applications may be obtained from Coffey County Sheriff’s Office at 605 Neosho Street, Burlington, KS 66839 or by calling 620-364-2123. You may also download application at coffeycountyks.org/county-services/sheriff/employment-information.

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Sealed bids will be accepted at the Code Services office no later than 10:00 am on Wednesday July 21, 2021. No contracts shall be awarded until final evaluation of bids has been conducted and approval is granted by the City Council. The City of Iola reserves the right to reject any and all bids, waive technicalities, and make awards deemed to be in the best interest of the City of Iola.

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Is he glamorizing a past relationship?

Dear Carolyn: Last year, after nearly four years with my girlfriend, I called off our wedding and moved out.

We tried to date afterward, but we couldn’t move on from our fundamental problems, and I made the decision to call it over. I’ve now been dating someone else for the past few months.

I’m happy and enjoy her company, but she is not affectionate. I miss that affection and wonder if I didn’t give up too soon on my ex.

Am I just glamorizing the past? Or did it take someone else to show me what I was taking for granted with my ex? I’m not sure what I’m feeling here.

— Washington Washington: Call it glamorizing your past, and talk yourself into your new relationship.

Call it giving up too soon on your ex, and you talk yourself back into your old one.

Call it learning from experience, please.

Then you aren’t talking yourself into anything.

Instead, you’re recognizing that affection is important enough for you to question this new relationship, but not so important that it erases the fundamental problems of your old one.

In other words, you see that you want a good relationship that is also affectionate, not either-or. Which is why framing this decision as either-or, ex or current, is a mistake.

Dear Carolyn: I’m dating the most wonderful guy. I am 25 and have dated several guys over the years but never one like this. If everyone treated each other the way he treats me (and, I think, I treat him), the world would be a happy place. And, it’s not just that he treats me well,

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but we enjoy the same interests and share similar values and morals. Since the beginning I’ve been having one of those, “Ah, so this is what it’s supposed to be like,” moments. But, after all this gushing, I see these unhappy married couples and I think, they must’ve had the same thoughts I did. What is it that goes wrong?

— G.M. G.M.: People don’t feel what you’re feeling but brush that off as “nobody’s perfect.”

Or, they think they feel it, but they’re infatuated, or letting their insecurities decide, or their need to check the “married” box. Or they do feel it, but hit up against an immovable conflict.

Or their bad conflict skills catch up with them as life gets tougher, or one makes a mistake the other can’t forgive, or. . .

The trick is to recognize now what won’t dissipate later.

That demands honesty about what you can’t count on (newness) and what you can (whatever comes naturally); what you can’t sustain (hard work) and what you can (whatever comes naturally); what drains you, and what fills you. There is a place for hard work in a relationship. It’s in facing yourself, admitting your needs, anticipating your weaknesses and summoning enough respect for the outcome to be your staunchest advocate.

And, it’s in having the courage to wait for someone who’s easy to love.

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ESPN takes Nichols off NBA Finals duty after leaked comments PHOENIX (AP) — ESPN replaced Rachel Nichols as its sideline reporter for the NBA Finals following a report detailing critical comments she made about Black colleague Maria Taylor.

The network an-

nounced Tuesday that Malika Andrews would handle that role for the series between the Phoenix Suns and Milwaukee Bucks.

Nichols, who is white, has been the sideline reporter for its top national games this sea-

son and for last year’s NBA Finals. But the switch was made after The New York Times reported Sunday on her comments last year, when she learned Taylor would lead the network’s studio show instead of her during the

league’s restart at Walt Disney World.

In a phone conversation that was accidentally recorded and the Times obtained, Nichols said: “I wish Maria Taylor all the success in the world — she covers football, she covers

basketball. If you need to give her more things to do because you are feeling pressure about your crappy longtime record on diversity — which, by the way, I know personally from the female side of it — like, go for it. Just find it

somewhere else. You are not going to find it from me or taking my thing away.”

The Times’ report said the show’s crew was angry with Nichols, who apologized Monday while hosting “The Jump.”

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Wednesday, July 7, 2021

NBA: Finances Continued from A1

and drink and the like — may have meant the league would see a 40% dip in that cash stream.

But, in part because some arenas had fans later in the regular season and then more than 1 million tickets being sold in playoff games, that dip could be closer to 33%.

“No question, the league will incur significant losses over the past two years,” Silver said. “I will say though, I’m not here to complain about that. Just speaking for our team owners, they view it as a longterm investment in the league and something very necessary to keep these organizations going. And by the way, it was shared sacrifice by our players as well.”

Players took “significant reductions” in salary this season, Silver said, something that was negotiated by the NBA and the National Basketball Players Association.

That hit will be spread out over several seasons.

The league — which estimated its loss in revenue from last season at $1.5 billion — plans on returning to normal this fall, with the season starting in mid-October and likely being of the common 82-game duration. The number of games is still in some question because the play-in tournament isn’t officially back for next season, though it has long been expected that the league’s board of governors will keep it going forward.

“If things continue on track and we can move toward a new season next year that looks a lot more like normal, we’ll have weathered it very well,” Silver said.

Silver touched on many other issues, including: INJURIES

Silver said the league is concerned about the number of injuries, something that has been blamed in some circles by the compressed 72-game season this season, plus the short layoff for some teams between last season and this one.

None of those reasons can be pointed to as an absolute cause, and the NBA doesn’t know why it’s happening, Silver said.

Over the coming months, it will try to find out.

“I have no doubt that the additional stress, again physical and emotional, on them contributes to injuries,”

Silver said. “None of it is an exact science. It’s something that even pre-COVID, as you all know, we were very focused on at the league.

We put people in place to focus exclusively on injury prevention. Precisely why we have the injuries we do is still unclear to us. It’s something that we’ll continue to study in the offseason. The trend line, unfortunately, has been going up for the last several years.”

The 82-game season isn’t set in stone going forward, either.

“We have had this 82-game season for 50-plus years,” Silver said. “I mean, is 82 optimal? You know, it’s interesting. We got this experiment during the pandemic to move to 72.

Everybody thought that was the cure-all, if we just lopped 10 games off the season. I mean, obviously injuries are up, so that wasn’t it.”

Game 7 of the NBA Finals, if necessary, is July 22. Training camps for next season are set to begin on Sept. 28, meaning it is possible that Milwaukee and Phoenix are back in camp as little as 68 days following the end of the finals.

Last season’s finalists, the champion Los Angeles Lakers and Miami Heat, had 51 days between the end of the 2020 finals and the start of this season’s training camp — with this season’s game schedule beginning 72 days after the Lakers won the title at the restart bubble at Walt Disney World.

“Was there more of a burden on those teams that went far into the playoffs and into the Finals last year? Absolutely,” Silver said.

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Paul carries Suns past Bucks in NBA Finals opener PHOENIX (AP) — Chris Paul waited 16 years to get to the NBA Finals, bringing with him a team starving for its first championship.

The setting was entirely new.

The performance was same ol’ Chris Paul.

“Just knew he’s ready,” Phoenix forward Mikal Bridges said. “He’s prepared his whole life for this moment and it shows out there on the court.”

Paul had 32 points and nine assists in an NBA Finals debut that was well worth the wait, Devin Booker scored 27 points and the Suns beat the returning Giannis Antetokounmpo and his Milwaukee Bucks 118-105 on Tuesday night in Game 1.

Paul scored 16 points during a sensational third quarter that had Phoenix fans who waited 28 years to see the NBA Finals again screaming in delight.

“Every time he shoots it we think it’s going in,” Booker said.

It almost did in the third quarter, when Paul was 6 for 7 and made all three 3-pointers.

Finally playing for the title in his 16th season, the star point guard has the Suns in the NBA Finals for only the third time, and it sure looked as if they could make this ending different than the other two.

“We’ve been building

The Phoenix Suns’ Chris Paul, left, puts up a shot against the Milwaukee Bucks’ Pat Connaughton (24) at Phoenix Suns Arena on Tuesday. (CHRISTIAN PETERSEN/GETTY IMAGES/TNS)

all season long for these moments,” Paul said.

“We’re going to keep playing. This is just one game. We’ve got to stay locked in.”

Deandre Ayton added 22 points and 19 rebounds to continue his breakout stretch of play in his first postseason.

Antetokounmpo had 20 points and 17 rebounds after missing two games with a hyperextended left knee.

Khris Middleton scored 29 points, but the Bucks will have to play from behind again after dropping Game 1 for the third straight series.

“We know it’s not going to be easy. We know it’s going to be tough,” Middleton said.

“There’s times where we’re going to be down in this series. But this series isn’t over. We’re down. We’ve still got to keep competing and just playing.”

The series opener was the first NBA Finals game in Phoenix

since Michael Jordan’s Chicago Bulls won their third straight championship here in Game 6 in 1993. The Suns, who came into the NBA with the Bucks in 1968, made their only other finals appearance in 1976.

They hadn’t even

made the playoffs since 2010 and just two years ago were last in the Western Conference with a 19-63 record.

But Booker was already headed for stardom by then, and 2018 No. 1 pick Ayton has played at that level in the postseason. Paul has been steady as always since his arrival in an offseason trade.

Now 36 and a 10-time All-NBA selection, he is on the list of best players to never win a championship. It appeared he might never even get to play for one until Oklahoma City dealt him to a team of Suns on the rise, and he might be the final piece that takes them all the way to the top.

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RAPTORS FUTURE

The Toronto Raptors haven’t played a game in Canada since February 2020. Silver said he’s hoping that changes this fall.

The NBA still isn’t sure if the Raptors — who played this season in Tampa, Florida — will be going home, but there is optimism that it’ll happen for next season.

“I know it’s incredibly meaningful to the team,” Silver said. “I think there was that additional burden placed on the Raptors more than any other team by having to relocate for the season. But we are hopeful the team will be back if things continue as we’re seeing in Canada right now.”

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Country Club When: July 10, 2021 at 8 a.m.

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$65 per person ($260 team)

USD 257 will be hosting the First Annual Iola Athletics Fundraiser Golf Tournament. The format will be a non-consecutive shot fourman scramble. There will also be a par three challenge, longest drive, closest to the pin and more. All proceeds will go towards Iola High School and Middle athletics. Prizes will be awarded to the top three teams. Lunch will be provided.

If you are interested in sponsoring a hole or playing, please contact Jason Coke or Matt Baumwart for details. jason.coke@usd257.org or matt.baumwart@usd257.org You may also sign up at Allen County Country Club.

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