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Tuesday, November 8, 2016
Moran OKs fitness center By BOB JOHNSON The Iola Register
MORAN — Moran council members voted unanimously to embrace the old Pump-N-Pete’s convenience store for a community fitness center. The store has been vacant for several years, which gave pause — two windows reputedly leak during heavy rains and some walls need more than casual repairs. But the time has come, councilmen decided, to pull the trigger on a $25,000 grant from the Health Care Foundation of Greater Kansas City, which required the city establish a home for fitness equipment grant proceeds will provide. “I think we can get volunteers” to do much of the work required to bring the building up to snuff, said Damaris Kunkler, Thrive program director, who over the past year has urged a healthy approach for Moran residents. That included a survey several months ago that found many citizens would be participants — a fact that helped attract the grant. Gratz Peters, owner, is providing the building gratis with a commitment of as long as two years. Moran’s PRIDE group has worked with Thrive en route to last night’s destination. Larry See MORAN | Page A3
THE WAIT IS (FINALLY) OVER A line of about 40 nearly reaches North Buckeye Street this morning, awaiting for the Election Day polls to open at the Bass Community Hall. The Regiser will post tonight’s results via our Facebook feed, with a full recap of election results Wednesday. REGIS-
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Election winner must move to heal wounds WASHINGTON (AP) — We’ll know soon enough who won. We already know the prize: A big, ugly wound in the heart of American politics. Nearly two years of relentless campaigning and racially loaded rhetoric has exposed a country that is deeply fractured along lines that are hardening and raw. Race, gender and class appear to be ever more reliable predictors of whether Americans cast their ballots for Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton. And as Americans have retreated further into
Kathleen Hennessey An AP news analysis their corners, politicians have seen little motivation to understand the other side. The dynamic just played out, while America (and the world) cringed. This campaign often looked like a noisy and incoherent conversation taking place in
parallel worlds, with Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton shouting across a daunting gulf between them. It may have been a race filled with unpredictable moments, but its near certainties are just as notable. As she heads into Election Day, Clinton is on track to win solid, and in some cases overwhelming majorities, of black, Hispanic and collegeeducated voters. Polls show Clinton, running to be the first female president, may also hit new levels of support among women. Trump, meanwhile, has
been propelled by support from white, working-class voters, a group that according to polls may reject Clinton more decisively than any of her recent Democratic predecessors. These splits between whites and minorities, between men and women, between those with college degrees and those without, did not begin in 2016. Clinton’s coalition is likely to look much like the one President Barack Obama assembled in 2008 and 2012, and has its See WOUNDS | Page A3
The important legislative race you probably haven’t heard about By STEPHEN KORANDA KHI News Service
Rep. Russ Jennings, right, sits with Kansas Senate District 39 candidates Republican John Doll, left, and Democrat Zach Worf, center, at a candidate forum in Garden City ahead of the August primary. Jennings was unopposed both for the primary and the general election and is seeking the job of House speaker in the Kansas Legislature. PHOTO BY AMY JEFFRIES/KCUR
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It’s a campaign without ads. There are no TV spots or mailers. The only people voting are the 165 Kansas lawmakers choosing their new leaders. As University of Kansas political scientist Burdett Loomis says, “Leadership races are the most inside of inside baseball.” Loomis said you almost have to be a legislative nerd to have heard of the candidates for Kansas House speaker or Senate president, but they get to make committee assignments and control the chamber. “These are very important positions,” he said. “You’re investing a tremendous amount of power in these leaders.” Russ Jennings is a secondterm Republican House mem-
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ber from Lakin in western Kansas. He has hit the trail seeking the job of speaker. “I’ve been traveling the state the last couple of weeks meeting with legislators and candidates to become members of the Kansas House,” Jennings said, “visiting with them a little bit about my vision for how the House might operate in the future and getting to know those folks.” The current speaker, Ray Merrick, is retiring. Jennings said his vision for taking over entails hearing all viewpoints when it comes to big issues like the state budget, the tax system and Medicaid expansion. He believes that hasn’t happened enough in recent years. “Everything has been done to squelch an honest discussion about where the state is See SPEAKER | Page A3
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