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ELECTION 2020

Senate candidates differ greatly

By VICKIE MOSS The Iola Register

By VICKIE MOSS The Iola Register

Mike Bruner wants voters to have choices.

And when it comes to the 12th District Kansas Senate race, he says the differences between the candidates couldn’t be more clear.

Bruner, a Democrat from Humboldt, is running against incumbent Republican Caryn Tyson of Parker. He said his views are the opposite of Tyson on nearly every aspect of government, from Medicaid expansion to education to budget issues to his support of Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly’s actions

In the early months of the coronavirus pandemic, Sen. Caryn Tyson, 12th District, emerged as a leading GOP voice championing efforts to limit the governor’s emergency powers.

Though some question the timing as partisan — Gov. Laura Kelly is a Democrat, while the powers of previous Republican governors weren’t challenged — Tyson said the central issue comes down to checks and balances.

This time, Tyson said, the governor was shutting down

Mike Bruner regarding the coronavirus crisis.

Bruner is a retired histoSee BRUNER | Page A3

Caryn Tyson businesses and the economy while the Legislature was not in session and had no See TYSON | Page A3

Transportation program gets green light Pence-Harris debate amid virus crisis

By TREVOR HOAG The Iola Register

Commissioners have approved a scaled-back version of a new transportation system for Allen County, which will provide rides for essentially anyone to anywhere.

The version of the program they approved included purchasing a 14-passenger vehicle along with creating one full-time position.

The cost for the program in its first year will be $33,419, and then decrease to $26,571 in the following year.

The initial proposal developed by Thrive Allen County was more extensive, and also included the purchase of a minivan and two additional positions at a first-year cost of $55,133.

Commissioners left open the possibility that the program might be scaled up closer to the original plan after a year.

Commissioner Bruce Symes said he was “willing to dip his toe in,” regarding the program, though he and the other commissioners suggested they wanted to start out slowly.

As commissioner Jerry Daniels put it, he wanted to “start off as economically as we can.”

Despite the program being scaled back, the new transportation initiative should

Jessica Thompson, director of development at Thrive Allen County, speaks with Allen County commissioners about a new transportation program. REGISTER/TREVOR HOAG serve a much larger population than the current Senior Bus, and for only a small fee.

Trips within Iola are slated to cost $2, trips within the county, $4, and out-of-county will be determined based on time and distance.

Jessica Thompson, director of development for Thrive Allen County, said that local churches, residents, medical facilities and more were already looking forward to the new program.

EMERGENCY communications director Angie Murphy shared the news that Allen County has made it past the initial round to be eligible for a grant that would provide storm shelters to its unincorporated communities.

She said the county should be notified by the first of the year if the grant had been obtained, which would provide shelters for Mildred, Carlyle and Petrolia.

Perhaps even better news,

however, was that Allen County has been awarded a grant in the amount of $119,995 via the CARES Act to support emergency operations center (EOC) capabilities.

Murphy said these funds would be used to purchase a projector system, televisions, computers and more to make improvements to the county’s EOC. HOSPITAL

administra-

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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Vice President Mike Pence and his Democratic challenger, California Sen. Kamala Harris, are set to face off in a debate that will offer starkly different visions for a country Mike Pence confronting escalating crises.

To n i g h t ’ s debate (8 o’clock) in Salt Lake City is the most highly antic- Kamala Harris ipated vice presidential debate in recent memory. It will unfold while President Donald Trump recovers at the White House after testing positive last week for the coronavirus and spending several days in the hospital, a serious setback for his campaign that adds pressure on Pence to defend the administration’s handling of the pandemic.

For Harris, the debate is her highest profile opportunity to say how DemocratSee DEBATE | Page A5

President Trump flip-flops on COVID-19 stimulus talks WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump this morning appeared to backtrack on his decision to halt talks on another rescue effort for the economy.

Trump sent a series of tweets late Tuesday night saying he’s now open to sending out $1,200 payments to Americans, as well as limited programs to prop up the airline industry and small businesses.

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It’s a reversal from just hours earlier, when he called an abrupt end to negotiations with Democrats over additional COVID-19 relief, delaying action until after the election despite ominous warnings from his own Federal Reserve chairman about the deteriorating conditions in the economy.

Trump tweeted that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was “not negotiating in good

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faith” and said he’s asked Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to direct all his focus into confirming his U.S. Supreme Court nominee, Amy Coney Barrett.

“I have instructed my representatives to stop negotiating until after the election when, immediately after I win, we will pass a major Stimulus Bill that focuses on hardworking Americans and Small Business,” Trump

tweeted.

Hours later, Trump appeared to edge back a bit from his call to end negotiations.

He took to Twitter again and called on Congress to send him a “Stand Alone Bill for Stimulus Checks ($1,200)” — a reference to a pre-election batch of direct payments to most Americans that had been a central piece of negotiations between Pelosi and the White House. Pelosi has

Get ready to hunt the medallion and here’s the first clue.

Your heart beats about 115,000 times per day inside of you.

generally rejected taking a piecemeal approach to COVID relief.

“I am ready to sign right now. Are you listening Nancy?” Trump said in a flurry of tweets Tuesday evening. He also called on Congress to immediately approve $25 billion for airlines and $135 billion the Paycheck Protection Program to help small businesses.

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KS online teachers reach breaking point

Obituary

By STEPHAN BISAHA Kansas News Service

Robert Scantlin Robert Lee Scantlin, 76, passed away at Citizens Memorial Hospital Friday, Oct. 2, 2020. He was born Nov. 4, 1943 in Iola, to Raymond and Mary Scantlin.

Bob proudly served in the U.S. Navy from June 1961 to March 1985, where he retired E9 as Command Master Chief. He was decorated with Robert Scantlin the National Defense Service Medal, Navy Achievement Medal, Armed Forces Reserve Medal, Meritorious Unit Commendation, Sixth Good Conduct Medal for period ending Oct. 14, 1985, and Meritorious Service Medal.

While serving in the Navy, Bob was stationed in San Diego, Boston and New Orleans, where he met Marcia Ann Skomorucha. The couple married on Aug. 16, 1980 in Fort Leavenworth.

Bob had a true love for the outdoors and dreamed of living in Alaska. He enjoyed gardening, fishing and hunting. He was a skilled woodworker who loved making furniture for his family, and was also known to pull the arm on a slot machine.

Bob leaves behind his loving wife, Marcia; four children, Sandra Kay Mosbrucker (Jamie), St. Joseph, Mo., Robert Lee Scantlin Jr. (Lanette), Milford, Ohio, Stacy Lynn Sawyer (Stefan) Lawrence, and Amanda Owens (Zach) Springfield, Mo.; 10 grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren. He was preceded in death by his parents, Raymond and Mary, stepfather, Raymond Cutshall; grandchildren, Taylor and Emily Sawyer; and a sister, Elizabeth Vickery.

Correction Jamie D. Martin was born on April 29, 1986, in Topeka to Kyle and June Martin. He passed away

on Monday, Sept. 21, 2020. An obituary published last week had an incorrect date of birth.

Librarian wins award MORAN — Moran Public Library director Cynthia Chalker has been named the winner of a 2020 scholarship from the Association for Rural and Small Libraries, Inc., a network of library advocates.

The group strives “to create resources and services that address national, state and local priorities for libraries situated in rural communities,” according to

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the organization’s press release.

Typically, recipients would be invited to attend the annual ARSL Conference and receive hotel accommodations and a travel stipend.

This year’s conference, however, was held remotely this week because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Chalker will be eligible for the scholarship again in 2021.

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10 years of teaching, she says she’s never worked this hard.

“It’s honestly not best practice for our students,” she said.

Westbury teaches fourth and fifth grade — remotely this year — at Franklin Elementary in Wichita. Tech problems have plagued her classes since the start of the school year. Students keep getting boot- COVID-19 is creating unsustainable working condied off district-provided tions for many Kansas teachers. internet devices. Some had more time to train kids had never opened often twice the norm.

And those students teachers for the new a laptop before. Teachers still battle with the could come from differ- school year. But many Microsoft Teams plat- ent grades. Westbury teachers didn’t know if teaches both fourth- they would be teaching form.

While the tech prob- and fifth-grade students online until just before lems are taking longer at the same time. Some the first day of classes. than expected to get lessons crossover be- That left them unsure over, educators expect tween the grades. Yet as if they should be spendthem to get better. In- the year goes on, what ing their training time flated online class sizes those students are sup- on online classes or if are a more stubborn is- posed to learn drifts they should focus on farther and farther in-person learning. sue.

On Friday, Kansas Wichita Public apart.

Between the class Education CommisSchools says about 15 students is the ideal size, the different tech sioner Randy Watson number for a class do- needs of each stu- said remote teaching ing the normal number dent and teaching two is not sustainable for of in-person lessons. grades at once, West- the rest of the school But Westbury has near- bury does not believe year because the qualily 40 kids in one class, she or other teachers ty just doesn’t match a which she has man- can deliver what’s best physical classroom. He suggested schools look aged as tiny squares for students.

“Lord knows, we’re to outside facilities like crammed into a comtrying,” Westbury said. hotels and old shopping puter screen.

In Wichita, elemen- “But we definitely can’t malls to let more stutary students were al- sustain this with the dents learn in-person while staying six feet lowed to sign up for staffing that we have.”

They’ve made imapart. in-person classes. MidWatson said that dle school and high provements since the school students must spring’s sudden move also requires finding learn online for now. to remote classes. But more teachers. That The district needs more despite having a sum- includes recruiting reteachers for in-person mer to prepare, dis- tired teachers and makclasses to keep them tricts didn’t mandate ing principals take on small enough to leave teacher training until classroom duty.

“Everyone is going room for social distanc- about a week before the to need to be a teaching. That means the first day of classes.

Districts like Wichita er again,” Watson told few teachers available for online lessons must that delayed their start the Kansas Associatake on more students, until after Labor Day tion of School Boards.

WICHITA, Kansas — Less than a week into the new school year, the warning came: The school district’s COVID-19 learning plan expected too much from teachers.

“It’s unsustainable,” Greg Jones, a representative for the Kansas National Education Association, told the Wichita school board.

“We don’t think that things can continue as they are.”

Public schools in Kansas are asking a lot from remote teachers this year. They must figure out how to shift their lessons online — without the wiggle room granted in the spring. Teachers need to learn new technology. Students need help getting their new computers and tablets working, too.

All that must happen while teaching twice as many kids to compensate for the split between in-person and online classes.

Some educators warn that they can’t do right by students — or their own families — under the current conditions.

Unions said teachers are already leaving.

“It’s becoming such an overwhelming challenge that many teachers are resigning early,” said Marcus Baltzell, the spokesperson for the Kansas National Education Association.

“Many are just outright quitting.”

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Support for KS water likely not forthcoming

By TIM CARPENTER Kansas Reflector

clear if 2021 Legislature and Kelly have wiggle room to restore that money in the next year or so.

Sen. Carolyn McGinn, a Sedgwick Republican and chairwoman of the Senate Ways and Means Committee, said much would depend on the November update of state tax revenue forecasts.

In April, economists and state officials said Kansas could expect to collect $1.2 billion less over a two-year period than previously anticipated. Kansas is constitutionally prohibited from operating deficits.

“I think we’re going to know a lot more then,” McGinn said following the Kansas Water Authority’s briefing Tuesday.

Rep. Troy Waymaster,

TOPEKA — Five governors and the Kansas Legislature have collaborated for more than a decade to ignore state law requiring allocation of $8 million annually to support policy and programs aimed at maintaining the state’s water supply.

It doesn’t look as if 2020 will be a watershed year in terms of financial relief.

The Legislature and Gov. Laura Kelly agreed to appropriate $6.9 million this fiscal year to support the state water plan, but the governor responded to a projected revenue shortfall by slashing $1.1 million allocated to the Kansas Water Office. It’s not

chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, said monthly state tax revenue collections had surpassed expectations despite the COVID-19 pandemic. There will be spending reductions in the revised state budget, he said, but determining what parts of government absorb those blows will be part of next year’s debate in the Capitol.

“It could be restored,” Waymaster said. “Some of it? Yes.” Connie Owen, chair-

woman of the Kansas Water Authority, told members of the interim House and Senate budget committee, that for about 30 years the state had been obligated to annually invest $6 million from the general state treasury and $2 million from gaming revenue in support of water programs.

The state water program hasn’t received the full statutory appropriation since 2008 when Kathleen Sebelius was governor of Kansas, Owen said.

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Bruner: Teaching experience included learning to negotiate Continued from A1

ry teacher with experience in teacher negotiations, and a lifelong love of politics. He also serves as the chairman of the Allen County Democratic Party.

It was his role with the party, as well as his concern for issues facing that state, that prompted him to run for office.

It comes back to giving voters a choice.

Bruner’s role as party chairman comes with the responsibility of recruiting candidates for office. That’s difficult enough in a state where Republicans outnumber Democrats 2-to-1. It’s even harder when you consider the sacrifices someone has to make to serve as a part-time lawmaker in Topeka, where senators earn about $12,665 per year.

“It pays less than being a substitute teacher,” Bruner said. “It’s very inconvenient unless you are retired or have a certain kind of job that gives you flexibility, or you are well off enough to not need the income.”

Bruner could not talk

You find out pretty quickly the other side isn’t wrong about everything, and you’re not going to get everything you want. That give and take is very positive.

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a Democrat to run for the seat, which Tyson has held since 2012.

So, he filed.

“Voters should always have a choice,” he said.

BRUNER’S interest in politics dates back to the third grade, when he was about 9 years old growing up in Scott City and watching the 1960 presidential campaign between John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon.

His parents were Democrats who encouraged reading newspapers and discussing issues of the day. His

father was a welder who didn’t have much education, so he emphasized the importance of education to his only child.

His father also enjoyed history, and passed that interest down.

“Politics and history sort of go together,” Bruner said.

After graduating from Emporia State University with a teaching degree and as he became more active in teaching-related organizations and negotiations, Bruner’s interest in politics grew. He served 25 years as either the head of those types of associations or as lead negotiator.

That experience taught him a lot about education at the state level, including how to manage a budget, but also gave him a greater understanding of the various perspectives different people bring to the negotiating table.

“You find out pretty quickly the other side isn’t wrong about everything, and you’re not going to get everything you want,” he said.

“That give and take is very positive. It’s a won-

derful thing for government to be conducted by those with different ideas and different aspirations, in good faith and in the spirit of compromise.”

He worries about the divisive partisanship in government today. Yes, politics has always been tough, he said, but it truly does seem to have gotten worse in the past few decades.

“Too many reject the idea of compromise and cooperation.”

ON THE ISSUES, Bruner highlights his experience in education as a priority.

He wants to focus his attention on issues surrounding education, particularly shoring up public education through the state budget and making college more affordable.

“Schools are very important. They are the lifeblood of a community,” he said.

He’s also interested in increasing broadband internet services, particularly in rural areas, to make it easier for people to attend school remotely.

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ability to intervene.

“The parameters need to be based on the emergency we’re facing,” she said. “If you have an emergency like a tornado or flood, those parameters wouldn’t be the same as COVID.” In the end, the governor and lawmakers compromised, allowing counties to have local control and a group of legislators to decide whether to extend or revoke emergency declarations.

Tyson said she hopes legislators will further review the issue in the next session.

“I think we need to do a deep dive on the current legislation,” she said.

Tyson, who has a decade of experience in the Legislature both as a House representative and a senator, is running for re-election to represent the 12th District. She was elected to the House in 2010, then to the Senate in 2012 and 2016.

She’s a former software engineer and operates Tyson Ranch in Parker with her husband.

Information technology is central to much of her campaign.

“There were many people in the Legislature who didn’t understand the important role of technology. I still see that today but I think more people are starting to understand how important it is,” she said.

The coronavirus pandemic has highlighted that need even more, she said.

Take, for example, the delays in the unemployment system. Many of those who lost their jobs said it took weeks or even months before they were issued unemployment payments.

That’s mostly attributed to outdated computer systems in the Department of Labor, decades in the making.

Money was allocated for upgrades years ago, but those improvements never materialized, Tyson said.

Tyson puts the blame on today’s administration.

“This has gone on since March. They keep trying to Band-Aid it and I understand they have to do that right now, but in the meantime they should have a parallel task force examining it,” she said.

A bipartisan group of legislators are committed to forcing the matter to the forefront, she said. Some progress has already been made, she said, pointing to new leadership and staff in the department.

“I’m cautiously optimistic,” she said. “It’s about managing our resources. This is so critical. It needs to be addressed but it keeps getting kicked down the road.”

Improved technology also could reduce instances of fraud, she said.

She wants the Legislature to explore options available through the federal government.

It’s also been difficult to find programmers for the outdated system, she added. College and universities rarely teach that programming language.

And speaking of colleges and universities, Tyson expects education to remain a central issue for lawmakers, as it is every session because it accounts for much of the state’s budget.

She points again to technology as a need when it comes to issues surrounding education.

She praised a technical training program emphasized by former Gov. Sam Brownback. That program boosted training for trades like welding, electrical, automotive repair, health care and more.

Schools should also implement training for information technology, she said. Those programs make a lot of sense in the current technological age, she said, but are hard to find in public schools.

“We need to expand certificate programs in

I’m not going out there to raise your taxes. I will fight for smaller government.

— Caryn Tyson

software or hardware or security certification,” she said. “COVID has really brought this to the forefront. You can live in Iola or Moran or LaHarpe and telecommute anywhere, and have those nice-paying jobs.”

The pandemic also highlights the need for improved broadband services, in both rural and urban areas, she said.

“Not only does internet access play a role in our education and our jobs, but it’s also a health issue,” she said.

“We’ve seen how telehealth can work in our state.”

Lawmakers made changes to allow increased telehealth services. That needs to be made permanent, Tyson said, along with a look at how information technology can create other cost savings in the health care system.

Tyson, though, has not supported efforts to expand Medicaid, citing concerns about potential costs.

BUDGETING is always a contentious issue for those in government, and Tyson expects the next Legislative session will be no exception.

“It’s going to be a difficult year with businesses being shut down and people losing their livelihoods, and I expect our revenues will be down,” she said.

“I look at when we were going through this a few years ago and what they did in 2008 and 2009 during the recession,” she said. “We’re going to need to be very diligent at looking at places where we can save and use common sense.

Just because you spent a million dollars on office supplies last year doesn’t mean you have to spend that much this year.”

Lawmakers often do not have enough time to review the budget in detail during a 90-day session. Tyson wants to see a committee or joint committee review the budget more closely after it is released by the governor.

Tyson said she would not support cutting transportation projects and does not support tax increases.

“I’m very straightforward with my constituents,” she said. “I’m not going out there to raise your taxes. I will fight for smaller government.”

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Improved broadband also can help from a health and economic perspective, he said.

Workers can live in rural communities and telecommute. It also will improve access to telemedicine.

He’s also concerned about health care, particularly Medicaid expansion. Kansas has lost millions of dollars as well as jobs by not expanding Medicaid, he said, and hospitals have been left vulnerable. Low-income workers would have access to health care that would improve their ability to stay healthy and be productive, he said.

“It’s an economic service. It’s a public health service. And it’s the compassionate thing to do,” he said.

“That, more than anything, is what made me want to get in this race.”

THE COVID-19 pandemic also illustrates key differences between Bruner and Tyson, among other Republicans.

He disagrees with efforts to limit the emergency powers of Gov. Kelly, for which Tyson was a leading GOP voice. The resulting compromise legislation gave counties more local control and lawmak-

ers final say over whether to renew emergency declarations, and how to spend federal relief money.

But when Gov. Kelly issued a mask mandate, many counties voted to opt out. Allen was one of the few that upheld her order.

“I think it’s responsible leadership to ask people to wear masks.

It’s just sound public health policy,” Bruner said.

“I don’t see it as infringing on rights. To me, it’s more a symbol of freedom. It’s an important tool that frees us to go to work and go about our daily lives.

“I’m more worried about the impact on small businesses.”

Bruner said he believes some area residents are afraid to go out and patronize businesses because so many others refuse to wear masks. They aren’t willing to risk infection, even if they are taking precautions, because so many others don’t.

“Viruses don’t pay much attention to our political boundaries or our county boundaries,” Bruner said. “I would like to see our elected officials roll up their sleeves and work together on this. Maybe fewer people will get sick and fewer will die.”

Financial Focus

Can You Influence Your Financial Aid Award?

Right now, the pandemic is causing chaos and uncertainty for colleges and students. But it won’t always be that way. And if you have children who will be heading off to school in the next few years, you’re probably thinking about more typical concerns – such as expenses. How will you pay for the high costs of higher education?

Most colleges do offer financial aid packages that can greatly help with these expenses. But it pays to know, well in advance, how financial aid works. And the key platform for determining much of your child’s financial aid is the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA). In fact, if you have children starting college next year, now is the time to get going on the FAFSA, which became available Oct. 1 for the 2021-22 award year.

Filling out your FAFSA will provide you with what’s known as your Expected Family Contribution (EFC). The EFC calculation takes into account four separate areas: parent income, parent assets (excluding retirement funds, such as 401(k) plans and IRAs, home equity and small family businesses), student income and student assets. The EFC does not calculate the exact amount you must pay for college – rather, it’s an estimate, and the amount you pay can be below or above this number.

Nonetheless, the EFC is important in determining your financial aid package, and your actions can influence the results. Here are a few suggestions for future years: Save money in your name – not your child’s. FAFSA will just consider up to 5.64 percent of a parent’s assets, compared to 20 percent of a student’s assets.

Be aware of how retirement plan contributions can affect aid. Many of your current assets, such as your retirement accounts, may be excluded from the EFC calculation. However, any voluntary contributions you make to your 401(k) or traditional IRA during the “base” year (the prior tax year) generally must be reported on the FAFSA and are counted as untaxed income; consequently, these contributions may have a similar effect on aid eligibility as taxable income. Mandatory contributions, such as those made by teachers to a state retirement system, are generally not reported on the FAFSA. Avoid withdrawals from your 401(k) or traditional IRA. The money you take out from these accounts in the years you fill out the FAFSA, and the prior tax year, may count as taxable income in the financial aid calculations.

If you really need the money, you may want to consult with your financial professional for alternatives.

Consider having children put earnings into a Roth IRA. Money from after-school or summer jobs your children put in a Roth IRA may not be included in EFC – plus, your kids will get a head start on a tax-advantaged retirement account. Keep in mind, though, that Roth IRA withdrawals could be considered as taxable income on the FAFSA if the account owner is younger than 59 ½, which will be the case for your children, or the account is less than five years old.

Not all these suggestions will be appropriate for everyone, but they’re worth thinking about. You might also want to consult with a college’s financial aid officer before you complete the FAFSA, as aid calculations can be complex. An investment of your time and effort early in the process may pay off when the aid packages are finally delivered.

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

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Pay no attention to unsolicited ballot forms A deluge of mail ballot applications sent to Kansans from out of state is causing unprecedented work for election officials and confusion for voters.

Here’s what those voters who want to vote by mail need to know, and what they might want to do.

First, understand what the mail ballot application frenzy is all about — besides voters trying to avoid COVID-19 in the important 2020 election.

Literally anyone can send you an application with which you can request an official mail ballot from your county election office. Political parties and campaigns do it, but other entities can do it, too. This year, many thousands of Kansans already have received such unsolicited but legitimate applications for a mail ballot, including from an organization called the Center for Voter Information using a Springfield, Missouri, post office box.

The blanket mailings, while addressed to people by name, are being sent to many voters who have already requested mail ballots on their

own. In fact, Douglas County Clerk Jamie Shew says 70% of the record 27,000 mail ballot applications voters have sent in there have been duplicates.

In other words, thousands of people who had already requested mail ballots for the November election were fooled into thinking that they needed to re-apply for a mail ballot. They didn’t, and they don’t.

That’s happening all over the state, meaning that election officials have to process thousands and thousands of unnecessary duplicate applications while they’re also processing voter registration forms and gearing up for the start of in-person advance voting Oct. 19.

If you receive one of these third-party applications in the mail, and have already applied to the county for a mail ballot, you don’t need to send in another. Shred it or trash it. Don’t burden county election officials with makework when they’re certifiably busier than ever before.

Actual ballots go out to voters beginning Oct. 14.

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A look back in t me.

50 Years Ago October 1970

City commissioners accepted a bid of $25,575 for the Memorial Hall site from H. A. Joiner and Associates of Wichita, completing the formalities required to permit the building to be razed and construction of an apartment complex for the elderly poor to begin. ***** The Lehigh Cement Plant in Iola will cease production on Friday, Oct. 16 and all but a handful of employees will be discharged by the end of next week, Hallet Guth, plant manager, told the Register.

Guth said he was informed today, Oct. 12, that the Iola plant and two others in the

shrinking Lehigh chain were being closed because they are old and less profitable than larger, more modern facilities. Today’s announcement means that 65 additional Lehigh employees will lose their jobs. Earlier in the year the plant cut back from 110 to 65 workers. Guth said he hadn’t been told what the termination benefits would be. The Iola plant was built in 1900. ***** The Southeast Kansas Mental Health Center at Humboldt has appointed Dr. A. G. Arnold as clinical director.

Dr. Arnold will be working at the center four days a week.

This will raise the number of days of psychiatric care available at the clinic to six a week.

Teen’s plight spurred seismic change Rarely are lawmakers across the political spectrum so unified. And rarely do they act so rapidly.

As we commemorate National Newspaper Week, I’ve been considering the question why America Needs Journalists. My thoughts seem to always return to a 16-year-old Tennessee girl.

And injustice.

A couple of years ago, my team at The Tennessean in Nashville launched an extensive investigative project.

Under an arcane state law that was virtually unchanged since 1858, people awaiting trial in Tennessee county jails could be shipped to state prison if a judge deemed the local jail “insufficient” to handle their medical problems, mental illness or behavioral issues.

In a state with 95 counties, even today most of them rural, this thought-process might seem to have merit. Who would expect small counties to have the advanced resources of a metropolitan setting? And the training? And then there’s the cost.

Judges routinely remanded those detained for “safekeeping” elsewhere.

They were kept in solitary confinement.

Without ever having been convicted of a crime, these “safekeepers” were sometimes locked up for years.

The medical “problem” for some was that they were pregnant. Many were sick.

And, worst of all, some were children.

Our investigation, done in conjunction with The Marshall Project, not only led to sweeping legal change, it revealed the state was housing minors awaiting trial in adult prisons — including one 16-year-old girl who was shackled when allowed outside her cell to shower three times a week. For two hours a day, she received her education through a pie hole in her small cell. For 23 hours a day, she lived in a small cell.

Alone.

From January 2011 through 2017, more than 320 people in Tennessee were de-

investigative stories, former Gov. Bill Haslam called on Michael legislators to make changes Anastasi to the system. They came together quickly to do so.

“It’s one of those things that literally I didn’t know The how it worked,” the governor Tennessean said at the time. “We’re trying to look to see what we can clared safekeepers, with 86 in do with those juveniles — no2017 alone. The law, intended body would say it’s a good to relieve a financial burden idea to have a juvenile end up on local jails and get vulner- in solitary confinement in an able pre-trial detainees care adult prison.”

In fact, the governor said, not available in small towns, shocked lawmakers who had it made “no sense.”

Our investigation was never before heard of the published in February. By practice.

The state had no formal May, the governor signed a process to review the pris- bill banning juveniles awaitoners’ status. The average ing trial in adult prisons and stay was 328 days, accord- mandating a judicial review ing to state records. Local every 30 days of all safekeepjudges were unaware of the ing orders.

At the same time, the head consequences of their orof Tennessee’s prison sysders and assumed prisoners tem announced an end to were receiving specialized arbitrarily placing all safecare. keepers in solitary confineFollowing ment. Instead, exhaustive reprisons began porting which evaluate We learned many to included nueach safekeepmerous pub- of the children came er individually lic records from families that had before decidrequests, database report- no resources for bail. ing their staing, interviews Such was the case for tus.

About the with family Rosalyn Holmes, who same time, Romembers, law faced a dubious felosalyn Holmes enforcement released and attorneys, ny charge .... and was was on bail.

A huand painstak- placed in an adult prisrights ing commu- on more than 50 miles man group had paid nication with inmates via the away from her home for her bond.

She went back postal service, in Memphis. to school, got a the hidden part-time job. truth about She lived with safekeeping her family. emerged.

Last month, all charges We learned many of the children came from families against Holmes were disthat had no resources for missed. She was never inbail. Such was the case for dicted.

America needs journalists Rosalyn Holmes, who faced a dubious felony charge. because stories like these What was known for cer- need to be told. Injustice tain was that her family did abounds. not have the means to post a $60,000 bond. So that made her a Safekeeper, which also meant she was placed in an adult prison more than 50 miles away from her home in Memphis.

Immediately following the publication of the first of what became a series of

Michael A. Anastasi is vice president and editor of The Tennessean in Nashville and regional editor of the USA TODAY Network in the South.

The Los Angeles News Group won the 2015 Pulitzer Prize in Local Reporting under his leadership.

President trapped in false idea of what constitutes strength From the onset of the coronavirus pandemic, President Donald Trump’s response has been motivated by politics and the presidential race — to the detriment of the nation.

Now that the president has been stricken with COVID-19, politics is still his guide — even if it might be to the detriment of his own health and to those who work with him, while still being dangerous to the nation.

Trump’s decision Monday to leave Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, where he was being treated, is alarming, and seems unwise given what’s known about the virus. His own doctor acknowledged Trump “may not be entirely out of the woods yet,” and that his team was in “a bit of uncharted territory” given the unprecedented combination of therapies, some experimental, the president has received. Trump also disregarded his advisers, who urged him to remain at Walter Reed.

But caution has never been the president’s buzzword. The animating argument of his campaign has been that he is strong and that former Vice President Joe Biden is weak.

Being ensconced in a hospital is not good optics when your pitch is your supposed virility, especially with Election Day four weeks away. But this is a sadly limited notion of strength. Being strong also includes doing the right thing even when that is difficult.

That means thinking of those who must work with you in

the White House at a time when you are still shedding the virus and are supposed to be in quarantine.

Trump has put his doctors in an impossible situation. As Navy personnel, they must follow orders from their commander in chief.

That left lead doctor Sean Conley willingly divulging

data that seemed to indicate Trump was progressing well, but citing privacy laws in declining to give information that might reveal otherwise.

Many critical questions are unanswered, like how the president’s lungs have been affected and, critically, when he last tested negative for the virus. Knowing that would

help determine who was put at risk during Trump’s pre-diagnosis travels to Ohio, Minnesota and New Jersey.

Trump veered from the unwise to the unsavory in tweeting, “Don’t be afraid of Covid. Don’t let it dominate your life,” a grossly insensitive comment to the 210,000 Americans who died and the countless medical professionals who labored to save them and many thousands of others. And it came as the virus spikes in nearly half of the states, and as hot spots emerge in New York — hot spots that can be tamped down by the preventive behavior the president has refused to model.

New York did this once before, flattening the curve and reducing infection numbers by wearing masks and practicing social distancing. We, and the rest of the country, can do it again. But it would help if the president would lead the way by listening to experts, following his full course of treatment, remaining in quarantine until it is safe to others for him to emerge, and letting science — not politics — be his guide.

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The unexpected turn could be a blow to Trump’s reelection prospects and comes as his administration and campaign are in turmoil. Trump is quarantining in the White House with a case of COVID, and the latest batch of opinion polls shows him significantly behind former Vice President Joe Biden with the election four weeks away.

The collapse means that Trump and down-ballot Republicans will face reelection without delivering aid to voters — such as the $1,200 direct payments, or “Trump checks,” to most individuals — even as the national jobless rate is about 8% with millions facing the threat of eviction. One endangered Republican, Maine Sen. Susan Collins, said “waiting until after the election to reach an agreement on

the next Covid-19 relief package is a huge mistake.”

Former Vice President Joe Biden slammed Trump’s move.

“Make no mistake: if you are out of work, if your business is closed, if your child’s school is shut down, if you are seeing layoffs in your community, Donald Trump decided today that none of that — none of it — matters to him,” Biden said in a statement released by his campaign.

Trump’s move came immediately after he spoke with the top GOP leaders in Congress, who had been warily watching talks between Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and Pelosi. Many Senate Republicans had signaled they would not be willing to go along with any stimulus legislation that topped $1 trillion, and GOP aides had been privately dismissive of the

Secretary of the Treasury Steven Mnuchin listens as U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to the press outside the White House on July 29. (Sarah Silbiger/Pool/

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prospects for a deal.

Just on Saturday, tweeting from Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, Trump said, “OUR GREAT USA WANTS & NEEDS STIMULUS. WORK TOGETHER AND GET IT DONE.” But any Pelosi-sponsored agreement of close to $2 trillion raised the potential of a GOP revolt if it came to a vote.

Last week, the White

House said it was backing a $400 per week pandemic jobless benefit and dangled the possibility of a COVID-19 relief bill of $1.6 trillion.

But that offer was rejected by Pelosi, who continued to take a hard line in the talks, including insisting on repeal of a $254 billion GOP business tax break passed in the March package as a way to finance additional relief.

Pelosi had spoken with Mnuchin earlier Tuesday. After Trump’s tweets spiking the negotiations, Pelosi said Trump was “unwilling to crush the virus” and “refuses to give real help to poor children, the unemployed, and America’s hard working families.”

Trump broke off talks after Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell warned earlier Tuesday that the economic recovery remains fragile seven months into coronavirus pandemic without further economic stimulus.

Stocks dropped suddenly on Wall Street after Trump ordered a stop to negotiations.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average swung instantly from a gain of about 200 points to a loss of about 300 points.

Powell, in remarks before the National Association for Business Economics, made clear that

too little support “would lead to a weak recovery, creating unnecessary hardship for households and businesses.”

Trump cited Pelosi’s demands for state and local governments as a key reason for pulling out of the talks. Pelosi and Mnuchin were far apart on that issue — with Trump offering $250 billion while Pelosi was holding out for more than $400 billion.

And Pelosi was asking for a higher weekly jobless benefit and refundable tax credits for the working poor, among other provisions.

Early rounds of COVID relief passed by overwhelming margins as the economy went into lockdown in March.

After that, Trump and many of his GOP allies focused more on loosening social and economic restrictions as the key to recovery instead of more taxpayer-funded aid.

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ic presidential nominee Joe Biden would stabilize the United States, especially when it comes to the pandemic and racial injustice.

She will have the chance to explain her views on law enforcement, an area in which she’s viewed warily by some progressives, given her past as a prosecutor.

Ultimately, the debate is a chance for voters to decide whether Pence and Harris are in a position to step into the pres-

idency at a moment’s notice. It’s hardly a theoretical question: The 74-year-old Trump is fighting the virus and Biden, at 77, would become the oldest person elected president.

Pence’s debate strategy aims to highlight the administration’s economic record and attempt to portray the Democratic ticket as beholden to “radical left,” said former GOP Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin, who is helping the vice president prepare

for the debate, on “Fox & Friends.”

While the debate will likely cover a range of topics, the virus will be at the forefront.

Pence and Harris will appear on stage exactly 12.25 feet apart separated by plexiglass barriers. Anyone in the small audience who refuses to wear a mask will be asked to leave.

Pence was with Trump and others last week who have since tested positive, and the vice president has faced

questions about whether he should be at the debate at all. Pence has repeatedly tested negative for the virus, and his staff and doctors insist he does not need to quarantine under Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines.

The CDC defines risky “close contact” as being within 6 feet of an infected person for at least 15 minutes starting from two days before the onset of symptoms or a positive test.

Pence’s team object-

County: Nebraska Road repairs didn’t last Continued from A1

tor Elmore Patterson provided commissioners an update from Allen County Regional Hospital/St. Luke’s.

He said he is evaluating hospital services around the county, looking to make improvements, and noted he was especially interested in improving care for women.

Patterson also mentioned how he wanted to maintain clinics in Humboldt and Moran, in order to help people cut down on travel expenses.

When asked when the hospital would reopen its doors to the community for meals in the cafeteria, as well as bring back volunteers, Patter-

son said he wanted to do so as soon as possible, but could not take such steps at this time due to COVID-19.

PUBLIC works director Mitch Garner said crews have been chip-sealing near Gas, LaHarpe and Moran.

He also noted that recent repairs to Nevada Road have not lasted due to heavy truck traffic caused by the soil remediation project for Iola’s new elementary school as well as residences in town. All agreed it would be best to return parts of the road to gravel for the time being.

Symes said he was concerned about damage to vehicles and potential wrecks caused

by the patches of rough road, so Garner said he would look into installing temporary warning signs in the area.

Garner also mentioned that he’d put out bids for a new tractor for the county, and said that unfortunately four additional vehicles (three trucks and a blader) were in need of repairs.

IN OTHER news, Steve Prasko of advantage computers presented bids to commissioners to install equipment in the courthouse assembly room, with the goal of improving the quality of meetings broadcast to the community.

Commissioners did not move forward on the

proposal for purchasing items like microphones, speakers and software, but were informed that they already had $5,000 in CARES Act monies to dedicate towards the project.

Prasko also shared diagrams and bids for improving security in various courthouse offices.

Clerk Sherrie Riebel said the county had received a grant in the amount of $5,967 to help with election costs from the Center for Technology and Civic Life.

She also noted that election drop-boxes had arrived. One will be installed north of the courthouse and the other at the new ambulance station in Humboldt.

ed to Harris’ request for plexiglass barriers, arguing it was medically unnecessary. But the Commission on Presidential Debates had already agreed to the barriers, and Pence’s aides said their presence would not dissuade him from attending the event.

Pence’s chief of staff, Marc Short, said there is “zero risk” of the vice president pulling out of the debate over the plexiglass spat. He said Pence “will be there” because

it’s “too important for the American people.”

Sabrina Singh, a spokesperson for Harris, said the senator “will be at the debate, respecting the protections that the Cleveland Clinic has put in place to promote safety for all concerned.” The Cleveland Clinic serves as a health adviser to the commission.

The debate is unlikely to be a repeat of the chaotic debate between Trump and Biden last week.

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By NOAH TABORDA Kansas Reflector

TOPEKA — More than twice the number of advance by-mail ballot applications have been processed in Kansas compared to the 2016 and 2018 general elections, sparked primarily by pandemic concerns.

As of Oct. 1, election offices had received nearly 400,000 mail-in ballot applications, far exceeding the 194,505 sent by mail in 2018 and 202,138 in 2016, said Katie Koupal, spokeswoman for Secretary of State Scott Schwab.

With the Oct. 27 deadline to apply for mailin ballots still several weeks away, she said applications could exceed 500,000.

Koupal said despite a relatively seamless process in the primary election, election officials are staying alert. She also offered advice for those voting by mail.

“We will continue to prepare for a variety of scenarios for the November election, but we do not expect any delays,” Koupal said. “If you want to vote by casting an advance by-mail ballot, request one now — don’t wait until the last minute.”

Amid the pandemic, many Kansas voters are again turning to by-mail voting this general election to cast their ballot, despite rhetoric about voter fraud and discarded ballots. Such criminal behavior is extremely rare.

Koupal projected turnout for the Kansas general election turnout be in the range of 65% to 70%, like previous presidential election cycles. She said of the 105 counties, only six had yet to process any by-mail applications.

Fifty-six counties have received by-mail ballot applications exceeding 10% of all registered voters, 16 counties have exceeded 20% and three counties — Douglas, Trego and Harvey — have exceeded 30%.

Johnson County, with 124,006, and Sedgwick County, with 82,928, account for more than 50% of all applications processed so far.

In the run-up to the primary election and now the general election, President Donald Trump

Key dates

Oct. 13: Last day to register to vote Oct.14: Advance ballots are mailed and in-person advance voting may begin Oct. 27: Deadline to apply for advance by-mail ballot Nov. 3: General Election, by-mail ballots must be postmarked by this date Nov. 6: By-mail ballots must be received by end of workday at county election offices has repeatedly called into question the legitimacy of by-mail voting, calling them fraudulent and suggesting they would cause mayhem on Election Day. Voter fraud, however, is incredibly rare. In 2017, The Brennan Center for Justice ranked the risk of ballot fraud at 0.00004% to 0.0009%.

According to the AP’s recent fact check of Trump, there have been no major cases of fraud in the five states that regularly send ballots to voters.

Trump’s rhetoric, coupled with record numbers of by-mail ballot disqualifications during the primary election, has caused concern over what may happen in November when even more ballots are cast nationwide.

Patrick Miller, a political science professor at the University of Kansas, said he does not expect disqualified ballots to be a significant issue in Kansas.

“I don’t think we’ve really seen that politicization of mail-in voting here in Kansas, very strongly,” Miller said.

“The thing to remember though is that Donald Trump does not determine whether your mailin ballots get counted.

In Kansas, we have election officials that decide that.”

Miller said with the unprecedented number of by-mail ballots this general election, voters should not be concerned if results are not finalized on election night.

“We are used to this culture of being able to project on election night, who’s going to win, but we’re not going to be able to necessarily do that this year,” Miller said.

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Historic moment for Kansas women

By DAN MARGOLIES KCUR

For the first time in the history of Kansas, the three finalists for a vacancy on the state’s Supreme Court are all women.

The court on Monday announced that the three nominees for the opening created by the Sept. 18 retirement of Justice Carol Beier are Judge Kim Cudney, Judge Melissa Taylor Standridge and Kristen Wheeler.

Lisa Taylor, a spokeswoman for the court, said she’d reviewed the court’s news releases going back several decades. Typically, she said, the finalists included no more than one woman.

“So, yes, this is the first time that the pool of nominees have all been women,” Taylor said.

The court currently has two women justices: Chief Justice Marla Luckert, who was named to the court

by Gov. Bill Graves in 2003; and Justice Evelyn Z. Wilson, who was named to the court by Gov. Laura Kelly in 2019.

The seven-member

Kim Cudney court has had three sitting female justices only twice before: When Wilson was appointed, she joined Beier and Luckert on the court.

And before that, there was a three-and-a-halfyear period from early 2011 to mid-2014 when Luckert, Beier and Justice Nancy Moritz, now a federal appeals court judge, sat on the the state’s high court.

The court’s first female justice — and later its first female chief justice — was Kay McFarland. She was appointed by Gov. Robert F. Bennett in 1977 and became chief justice in 1995. She stepped down in 2009 after reaching the state’s mandatory retirement age of 70.

As currently composed, the court is generally seen as left-leaning on issues of women’s rights, notably having ruled last year that a woman’s right to an abortion is

Melissa Standridge rooted in the Kansas Constitution’s Bill of Rights.

The three finalists for the current vacancy were chosen by a nine-member nominating commission consisting of five lawyers and four non-lawyers.

Kelly, who has already named two justices — Wilson and K.J. Wall — has 60 days to pick one of the three.

Kim Cudney

Cudney, a resident of Greenleaf, has been chief judge of the 12th Judicial District, consisting of Cloud, Jewell, Lincoln, Mitchell, Republic, and Washington counties in north-central Kansas, since 2006.

Before that, she was a research attorney for a federal district court judge and for Kansas Supreme Court Justice Harold Herd. She graduated from Kansas State University and Washburn University School of Law.

Melissa Standridge

Kristen Wheeler Standridge, a resident of Leawood, has been a Kansas Court of Appeals judge since February 2008. Before that she worked for a federal magistrate judge, a federal district court judge and for the Shook Hardy and Bacon law firm in Kansas City. She graduated from the University of Kansas and the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law. She is married to former Jackson County Circuit Judge Richard T. Standridge, who recently retired.

Kristen Wheeler

Wheeler, a resident of Wichita, has been a law clerk for a federal district court judge since 2018. Before that, she was a lawyer with the Robinson Law Firm and with Morris Laing Evans Brock & Kennedy.

She graduated from the University of Kansas and Washburn University School of Law.

Hurricane Delta makes landfall in Mexico CANCUN, Mexico (AP) — Hurricane Delta made landfall today just south of the Mexican resort of Cancun as an extremely dangerous Category 2 storm, downing trees and knocking out power along the northeastern coast of Yucatan Peninsula, but without immediate reports of deaths or injuries.

The U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami said satellite imagery, radar data from Cuba and surface observations in Mexico indicate that the center of Delta came ashore around 5:30 a.m. local time, sustaining top winds of 110 mph.

Civil defense official Luís Alberto Ortega Vázquez said there were no immediate reports of deaths or injuries, but Delta had toppled about 95 trees and knocked out electricity to parts of Cancun and Cozumel. Ortega said about 39,000 people had been evacuated in the states of Quintana Roo and Yucatan, and that about 2,700 people had taken refuge in storm shelters in the two states.

Early today, guests of the Fiesta Americana Condesa hotel awoke in the sweltering classrooms of the Technological Institute of Cancun campus where they had been moved Tuesday.

All of the windows had been covered with plywood so they couldn’t see what was happening, but they said the howling winds started around 2 a.m. and there had been heavy rain. The power — and with it the air conditioning — had been knocked out early today so it was steamy as tourists used their cell phone light to get up and make their way for a first cup of coffee.

“The hard part has been the waiting,” said Ana Karen Rodríguez of Monterrey. She and a friend arrived in Cancun Tuesday morning and by afternoon were shuttled to the shelter.

She said the hotel had planned well. “It’s been good. I feel comfortable actually.”

Throughout the day Tuesday, the situation had appeared grave for this stretch of the Mexican coast.

Delta had increased in strength by 80 mph in just 24 hours, and its top winds peaked at 145 mph before it weakened as it neared the shore. Forecasters warned it was still an extremely dan-

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NBA: Playoffs

Iola High School: Fillies Volleyball

Fillies go 1-1 in nailbiters

Iola High’s Becca Sprague, above, hammers a kill against Prairie View in a match earlier this season. On Tuesday, Sprague tallied up 25 kills as the Fillies split a pair of hard-fought matches, dropping a three-setter to Santa Fe Trail and knocking off Osawatomie. At left, Iola’s Jada Cunningham digs out a serve in the previous match against Prairie View. REGISTER/

LA CYGNE — A roller-coaster pattern continued Tuesday for Iola High’s volleyball team, as they once again experienced the thrill of victory and tasted bitter defeat.

The Fillies dropped a three-set heartbreaker to Santa Fe Trail, with two of the three sets going a little extra because the match was so close. The finale wound up in Santa Fe Trail’s favor, 28-26. Iola rebounded to take a hardfought match to win in straight sets over Osawatomie.

The loss to Santa Fe Trail went down to the wire in all three sets, with the Chargers prevailing, 25-21, 25-27 and 28-26.

“It was our game to take,” Fillies head coach Amanda Strickler-Holman said, pointing to key missed serves at the end that proved fatal.

Iola had the serve at match point four times in the third set, but could not seal the win.

Despite the loss, Becca Sprague was a monster for Iola, racking up 15 kills, nine set assists, three aces and 23 digs.

Lauryn Holloway added eight kills, a block and 20 digs; Jenna Curry and Veronica Agostini each had five kills. Agostini added two aces, as did Hannah Gardner. Gardner had 24

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Rays slug past New York SAN DIEGO (AP) — Randy Arozarena, Mike Zunino, Manuel Margot and Austin Meadows hit home runs, and Tyler Glasnow struck out 10 to set a postseason record for the Tampa Bay Rays, who beat the New York Yankees 7-4 Tuesday night to even their AL Division Series at one game apiece.

The Rays had enough pop to overcome a huge game

by Giancarlo Stanton, who had two home runs and four RBIs. Stanton has three homers this series and five in four postseason games.

His grand slam in the ninth inning Monday night was the Bronx Bombers’ fourth homer in the 9-3 Game 1 win.

The Yankees have 13 homers in five games.

IN LOS ANGELES, George Springer hit two homers and the Houston Astros kept making more noise in the playoffs, beating the Oakland Athletics 5-2 on Tuesday to take a 2-0 lead in their AL Division Series.

Martin Maldonado also went deep for Houston, which needs one win to

reach its fourth straight AL Championship Series. Game 3 in the best-of-five series is Wednesday, when Houston is the home team in the neutral site matchup.

IN ARLINGTON, the Los Angeles Dodgers had already drawn nine walks before Mookie Betts got their first hit with one out in the sixth inning, and they went ahead to stay on Corey Seager’s sacrifice fly right after that in a 5-1 win Tuesday night over the NL West rival San Diego Padres in the opener of their best-of-five Division Series.

IN HOUSTON, Ronald Acuña Jr. made history with his leadoff homer, Travis d’Arnaud hit a tiebreaking shot in Atlanta’s huge seventh inning and the Braves beat the Miami Marlins 9-5 Tuesday in Game 1 of the NL Division Series.

D’Arnaud also doubled and singled in driving in four runs and Dansby Swanson homered during a sixrun seventh to help power Atlanta.

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Lakers on the brink

LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. (AP) — LeBron James woke up from his gameday nap Tuesday and decided it was time to send his Los Angeles Lakers teammates a message.

He grabbed his phone and told the Lakers they were facing a must-win game.

“I felt that vibe. I felt that pressure,” James said. “I felt like, for me personally, this was one of the biggest games of my career.”

Message delivered.

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MV: Football

MV calls off game MORAN — Marmaton Valley High School has announced it is canceling Friday’s football game at Oswego because of a player shortage.

With only 10 players on the roster, and some unavailable due to injury or other school-related issues, the Wildcats (1-4) will not have enough players to field a full roster for Friday.

The next game on Marmaton Valley’s schedule is Oct. 16 against Yates Center.

Humboldt

Lady Cubs stay hot in Neodesha NEODESHA — Humboldt High’s volleyball season is reaching its crescendo at the perfect time.

The Lady Cubs picked up two more match wins Tuesday, sweeping past Caney Valley and host Neodesha to stay perfect in the Pioneer League.

The victories give Humboldt nine wins in its last 10 matches and 10 of its last 13, with the only losses going to Class 5A power Emporia and Class 3A’s topranked Royal Valley.

Tuesday’s 25-20 and 25-12 wins over Caney and 25-20 and 25-16 wins over Neodesha give the Lady Cubs a 3-0 league mark.

“We came out a little slow in the first set with Caney, but battled through and found a way to win,” Lady Cub head coach Terry Meadows said. “With Neodesha, I was pleased with our serves. We were able to put pressure on them and we played some great defense.”

Leading the way against the Bullpups were Kirstyn

Murrow with six kills, 10 assists and two digs. Jessica Myers added five kills, an ace and two digs. Jada Dangerfield also had five kills to go with three digs and two aces. Kenisyn Hottenstein had 12 set assists and two aces. Brooklyn Ellis also had two aces to go with five digs.

Humboldt spread the wealth in the win over the Bluestreaks, with six players earning at least two kills in the match.

Myers had three kills, four blocks and seven digs.

Dangerfield had two kills, two blocks and eight digs, Kady Hart and Karley Wools each added three kills and a block. Murrow had four kills, two aces, 10 assists and three digs. Nautianna Goforth also had three kills.

Humboldt High’s Jessica Myers, shown at a match earlier this season, helped lead the Lady Cubs to a pair of wins Tuesday. REGISTER/

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Marmaton Valley, YC drop matches UNIONTOWN — The road was a rough one Tuesday for Marmaton Valley High’s Wildcats, who fell in straight sets to host Uniontown, 25-18, 2518 and 25-11.

Aly Ard had seven kills to lead the way for Marmaton Valley.

Janae Granere was next with six kills, followed by Kendall Scharff with five.

Raveyn Kegler had 17 assists. Tayven Sutton had seven points.

Uniontown also prevailed in a junior varsity match, 25-9 and

26-24.

Madi Lawson led Marmaton Valley’s JV with eight points, while Roslyn Houk and Carissa Mattox had five points each.

Payton Scharff had four points and two kills. Gracie Yoho also had four points.

ELSEWHERE,

Yates Center High’s volleyball team dropped a pair of home matches Tuesday, falling 25-19 and 25-22 to Jayhawk-Linn and 25-15 and 25-17 to Crest.

The Los Angeles Lakers’ Anthony Davis, left, gets a pass off in front of the Miami Heat’s Abndre Iguodala during the second quarter in Game 4 of the NBA Finals Tuesday. LOS ANGELE STIMES/WALLY SKALIJ/TNS

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Iola High’s Chloe Sell delivers a serve in a match earlier this season. Sell and her teammates competed in matches Tuesday at Prairie View, against both Santa Fe Trail and Osawatomie. REGISTER/ RICHARD LUKEN

Fillies: Earn split Continued from B1

digs, Agostini 12. Chloe Sell had 10 set assists.

THE proceedings were a bit smoother against Osawatomie in a 25-20 and 26-24 victory.

Sprague had 10 kills, followed by Holloway and Agostini with five each. Aysha Houk delivered two aces. Curry led the way with

11 digs. Agostini and Sprague and nine assists, respectively.

Strickler-Holman is optimistic the Fillies are peaking as the season hits the home stretch, and close matches such as these, will pay dividends for the senior-laden team.

Iola is back in action next Tuesday at Burlington.

Finals, one win away from the franchise’s 17th championship.

James finished with 28 points, 12 rebounds and eight assists, Anthony Davis’ 3-pointer with 39.5 seconds left finally settled matters and the Lakers beat the Miami Heat 10296 in Game 4.

The Lakers lead 3-1 and can win the title when the series resumes Friday.

“Big-time play. Bigtime moment,” James said of Davis’ 3-pointer.

“Not only for A.D., but for our ballclub and for our franchise.”

Davis finished with 22 points, Kentavious Caldwell-Pope scored 15 and Danny Green added 10 for the Lakers, who didn’t trail at any point in the final 20-plus minutes. The Lakers are now 56-0 this season when leading going into the fourth quarter.

Jimmy Butler scored 22 points for Miami, which got 21 from Tyler Herro, 17 from Duncan Robinson and 15 from Bam Adebayo — who returned after missing two games with a neck injury.

“I just loved seeing our guys compete. I love how they respond in between those four lines,” Heat coach Erik Spoelstra said. “This was a throwback game and there were some moments of truth there at the end, and probably

the bottom line is they won those moments of truth.”

He’s right. Whenever Miami had something going, the Lakers snuffed it out.

James’ 3-pointer with 8:18 left in the third put the Lakers up 55-54 and set the tone for the way the rest of the night was going to go; L.A. leading, Miami chasing.

“Like I always say, they’re a really, really, really good team and we’ve got to play damn near perfect to beat them,” Butler said. “We didn’t do that tonight. ...

We’ll watch this, learn from it, but we can’t lose another one.”

The Lakers were up by seven with 2:27 left in the third after a 3-pointer by Davis; Miami scored the next six to get within one. Herro made a 3 early in the fourth to get Miami within one again; the Heat promptly fouled Markieff Morris on a 3-point try, and he made all three shots.

Butler scored inside to tie the game with 6:27 left; James scored the next five points himself, including a three-point play where he ended up flat on his back after spinning the ball perfectly off the glass for a score on a drive while taking contact.

“You have to credit our guys’ competitive spirit,” Lakers coach Frank Vogel said. “They

were flying around and just competing at an extremely high level that end of the floor.”

A bounce here, a bounce there. Those were the differences late, and the Lakers made their own breaks.

Butler had a corner 3 that would have given Miami the lead rim out with 3:05 left; Caldwell-Pope made a corner 3 at the other end seven seconds later and the Lakers were up 93-88.

Miami then turned the ball over on a shot-clock violation; Caldwell-Pope scored on a drive for a seven-point lead.

James said the job isn’t done. But he knows the Lakers are on the brink.

“I love what we did tonight,” James said.

TIP-INS

Lakers: Dwight Howard nearly collided with NBA Commissioner Adam Silver while leading the Lakers out of the locker room for pregame warmups. ... The Lakers were 14 for 39 on 3-pointers, making them 59 for 166 in the series. Before this year, the Lakers’ record for 3s in a finals were 43 made and 125 attempts — both of which were surpassed this year in the first three games.

Heat: Point guard Goran Dragic (torn left plantar fascia) went through an on-court workout before the game with hopes of being able

to play for the first time since the first half of Game 1, but was ruled out again shortly afterward. ... Robinson’s first 3-pointer Tuesday was his 50th of the playoffs, meaning he and Jae Crowder are the first duo in Heat history with 50 postseason 3s apiece.

They’re the fourth teammates in NBA history to pull off that feat.

3-1 LEADS

This is the 36th time that a team has held a 3-1 lead in the NBA Finals.

Of the previous 35, the team with the lead has gone on to win the title 34 times — James and the Cleveland Cavaliers in 2016 becoming the exception when they won three straight games to defeat Golden State.

In the 3-1 Finals situation, the series has ended in five games 51.4% of the time (18 instances), in six games 40% of the time (14 instances) and in seven games 8.6% of the time (three instances).

RARE HALF

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California fires shatter records; test resolve SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — With months still to go in California’s fire season, the state has already shattered records for the amount of land scorched in a single year — more than 4 million acres to date, with one blaze alone surpassing the 1 million-acre mark. Five of the 10 largest wildfires in state history have occurred since August.

Beyond their size, how do the scope and devastation of this year’s fires compare to previous wildfire seasons in California? Here are some comparisons:

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all the recorded fires in California between 1932 and 1999.

DEATH & DESTRUCTION

The wildfires have incinerated at least 8,700 structures, many of them homes, from the San Bernardino National Forest east of Los Angeles to Napa Valley and up to the Oregon border.

There have been 31 people killed in the fires.

Many of this year’s biggest fires are burning on largely unpopulated federal land.

Wildfires in 2018 destroyed more than 22,000 structures in the most devastating year on record. They included the Camp Fire, which nearly wiped out the town of Paradise, destroying almost 19,000 structures, most of them homes, and killing 85 people. Another 15 people died in other blazes that year.

Since then, officials have become more aggressive about issuing large-scale evacuation orders sooner, and residents seem more likely to heed the pleas to depart.

4 MILLION ACRES

The 6,250 square miles that have burned this year are more than double the previous record for the most land burned in a single year in the state — roughly the size of Connecticut. The previous record was set in 2018 when deadly wildfires destroyed 1.67 million acres. The August Complex, burning in the Coast Range between San Francisco and the Oregon border, surpassed 1 million acres, another record.

“We used to think a 50,000-acre fire was huge. Now we’re dealing with an average of over 300,000 acres,” said Scott McLean, a spokesman for the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, known as Cal Fire, who called this year’s blazes “horrendous.”

Gov. Gavin Newsom said the amount of land scorched by the August Complex is larger than

OVERWHELMED FIREFIGHTERS

When the scourge of fires sparked by thousands of lightning strikes hit in mid-August, with major blazes roaring in neighboring states, California found itself short-staffed to fight them. The typical fire shift is 24 hours on followed by 24 hours off, but this year, many firefighters have been unable to leave the line of

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The Glass Fire in Napa County burns on a mountainside with the Beckstoffer Vinyards in the foreground in St. Helena, Calif. (Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times/TNS) duty for days.

“I had a friend that’s worked 50 days straight. Some people have stayed on the line 36 hours or 72 hours before getting relief,” McLean said. “The fires have really put a strain on everybody this year.

We have never seen anything like this before.”

More reinforcements have come since then, with firefighters arriving from other U.S. states and from Canada and Mexico, but there are still months left to go in the wildfire season and no break in sight.

After months fighting the blazes, 17,000 firefighters working on two dozen major fires are getting a reprieve from the weather this week.

While conditions continue to be hot and dry in some areas, temperatures were cooler Tuesday along Northern California’s coast and

forecasts say there is a chance of rain Thursday through Saturday.

The cooler temperatures have helped fire crews corral some of the most destructive blazes. The Glass Fire, burning in wine country, was 50% contained Tuesday.

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Numerous studies have linked bigger wildfires in America to climate change from the burning of coal, oil and gas. Scientists say climate change has made California much drier, making trees and other plants more flammable.

“The real crux is fuel moisture,” said Mike Flannigan, who directs the Canadian Partnership for Wildland Fire Science at Canada’s University of Alberta. “The weather’s responsible for how dry the fuels are. Here we’re mostly

talking about dead fuels ... the stuff on the forest floor on the Earth’s surface. The grass, the needles, the leaves. The drier the fuel, the easier for fires to start.”

California was turned into a tinderbox of dead trees after a five-year drought and a bark beetle epidemic that killed 150 million trees, the largest die-off in modern history. The Mendocino Complex that broke the previous record for the largest blaze in California history tore through steep slopes and canyons filled with dead trees in the Mendocino National Forest in 2018 and took seven months to contain.

“The velocity, the speed of these fires, is consuming so much so fast. We’ve never seen this before,” said McLean, who expects it will take years to replenish the moisture.

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The company said Tuesday that it will remove Facebook pages, groups and Instagram accounts for “representing QAnon” — even if they don’t promote violence. The social network said it will consider a variety of factors to decide if a group meets its criteria for a ban, including its name, the biography or “about” section of the page, and discussions within the page, group or Instagram account.

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