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GOP loses patience with tax cuts

By JOHN HANNA The Associated Press

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — After he became Kansas governor in 2011, Sam Brownback slashed personal income taxes on the promise that the deep cuts would trigger a furious wave of hiring and expansion by businesses.

But the “shot of adrenaline” hasn’t worked as envisioned, and the state budget has been in crisis ever since.

Now many of the same Republicans who helped pass Brownback’s plan are in open revolt, refusing to help the governor cut spending so he can avoid rolling back any of his signature tax measures.

If Brownback won’t reconsider any of the tax cuts, they say, he will have to figure out for himself how to balance the budget in the face of disappointing revenue.

“Let him own it,” Republican Rep. Mark Hutton said.

“It’s his policy that put us there.”

Tax collections missed projections in 11 months of the last year. A growing number of Brownback’s conservative allies want to scale back the tax cuts to See GOP | Page A3

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Tech ed center plans advance

FSCC says it will offer construction trades course

Open house

By RICHARD LUKEN The Iola Register

A commitment from Fort Scott Community College to have at least one construction trades class puts a proposed technical education center in LaHarpe one large step closer to reality.

The announcement was made Wednesday at a meeting of area school and community college officials that FSCC has committed to offering the construction classes this fall.

Much remains on the center’s “to do” list before the first hammer is swung, noted Marmaton Valley USD 256

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Superintendent of Schools Ken McWhirter.

Next on the agenda is getting a former Diebolt Lumber Company storage building and workshop up to code.

A special layer of fireproof Sheetrock is necessary before a portion of the structure can be used for classes, McWhirter explained.

The cost has been pegged at between $20,000 and

$25,000. Other portions of the building also will need to be upgraded for other potential courses, such as welding, costing an additional $75,000 or so.

But for now, the focus is on getting an area prepared for the construction class, McWhirter said Still to be ironed out is who See TECH ED | Page A3

LAHARPE — The public is invited to tour the old Diebolt Lumber facility in rural LaHarpe Monday as part of an open house.

Plans are in the works to utilize the property, now owned by LaHarpe’s Ray Maloney, as a regional technical education center.

School officials from four districts — Iola USD 257, Marmaton Valley USD 256, Uniontown USD 235 and St. Paul USD 505 — have announced their intentions to allow their students to enroll in construction trades and other courses offered up at the tech center.

Other districts have expressed interest, and may likely reach out as the center comes closer to reality.

Fort Scott Community College also has announced a commitment to provide the instructor for the construction trades classes.

The open house runs from 4 to 6 p.m. Monday.

The facility is at 2661 Nebraska Rd., or about one-quarter mile east of LaHarpe.

Allen County Tomorrow group to gather LAHARPE — About a year ago, residents from across Allen County prioritized a number of wish lists of projects they’d like to see developed in their respective communities.

Some of the wishes were accomplished in short order — upgrading Elsmore’s storm siren, for example — while others remain in the planning stages.

Damaris Kunkler is help-

ing set up Allen County Tomorrow, a steering committee dedicated to ensuring those goals remain a priority.

The ACT steering committee will meet this week at LaHarpe City Hall, at 1 p.m.

Wednesday and Thursday.

Committee members can pick either day to attend, explained Kunkler, Thrive Allen County’s program director.

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countywide community conversation is planned for June 2 in Iola at what will be the new Thrive Allen County offices on South Jefferson in the old Kress building on the east side of the courthouse square. (Thrive will share space with The Treasure Chest.)

The conversation will include a walking tour of the Allen County Farmers Market.

District may charge parents for all-day kindergarten

Iola Middle School fifth-grader Jadyn Kaufman, from left, attempts to avoid a wadded piece of paper thrown by her adversaries, Ethan Collins, Abiannia Smith, Trey Wallace and Jenna Adair Friday during a re-enactment of a battle scene from the Revolutionary War. Under the guidance of instructor Karen Price, the students divided into colonists and British armies. The British armies were larger, Price noted, but the colonists had the advantage in terms of using guerilla tactics and sneak attacks. The wadded paper served as weapons in place of muskets, cannons and bayonets.

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“We understand people have busy schedules,” Kunkler said. “We’ll cover the same topics in both meetings.”

She hopes to see a wide cross section from across the county at the meetings.

The steering committee will be asked to meet on a monthly basis, although she has yet to determine a permanent day of the month.

In addition, another

NEWTON, Kan. (AP) — Another Kansas school district is considering charging parents for all-day kindergarten.

KSNW-TV reports that the Newton district in southcentral Kansas is looking into a $200-a-month charge.

Half-day kindergarten would remain free because the state funds it.

Newton Superintendent Deborah Hamm says expenses are rising with no new money. She says districts can’t continue to do the same things with fewer resources.

Hamm says there are no other areas to trim the budget. School board members haven’t made a decision yet.

Newton is not alone. Some districts are considering changes to all-day kindergarten. Wichita, USD 259, is not taking changes off the table for kindergarten. The district still has to cut anywhere from $12 million to $22 million.

Wichita schools are not considering charging parents, which could bring in more revenue. But, eliminating all-day kindergarten

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could save the Wichita district from $5.5 million to $6 million.

“We don’t want to increase any charges to our families,” says Dr. Hamm.

“They already contribute quite a bit to our funding.

We have families that it would be difficult for, if not impossible, for them to pay.”

Dr. Hamm says the local board of education does not like the idea. But, she says, static funding from the state does not take into account increases in expenses for everything from increased insurance rates to fuel rates to increases in food costs.

“All I can really tell you is we use the dollars that we receive from the state to provide a full-day kindergarten,” says Dr. Hamm. “When the state figured the amount of money that would come to districts, they only counted money for half a kindergarten student. That doesn’t fall into the block grant, because we don’t get dollars in the same way anymore. It’s the same dollars every year, regardless what enrollment we have.”

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Legislator: Brownback might budge

By SAM ZEFF Kansas Health Institute

Aspiring authors Second-graders recognized for their writing skills are, front row from left, Chloe Hoag, Stephanie Fees, Lilli Reeder, Briley Prather, Jensen Barker and Mason Lampe; and second row, Kylie Caudell, Rori Parker Collins, Michaela Riebel, Bella Elbrader, Samantha Stogsdill, Gretchen Boyers and MaHallie Genoble.

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The vice chairman of the Kansas Senate Ways and Means Committee says he’s been told by Gov. Sam Brownback that the governor might consider rolling back a major portion of his signature 2012 tax cut bill.

Sen. Jim Denning, a Republican from Overland Park, said on KCUR’s Statehouse Blend podcast over the weekend that Brownback might not veto a bill that would close the loophole that allows more then 300,000 small businesses in Kansas to avoid state income tax.

“It’s been signaled to me personally that he

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Kansas briefs Amtrak will use bus line WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Amtrak has restored service to Wichita, although it will use buses rather than a train to connect with routes in Oklahoma City and Newton, officials announced Monday.

It will be the first Amtrak service in Wichita since a Houston-toChicago route was discontinued in 1979, The Wichita Eagle reported.

The new service will be operated by a Wichitabased charter company and depart from a Greyhound bus station in downtown Wichita.

The idea for the bus route arose in discus-

sions about closing a service gap between the routes serving Newton and Oklahoma City, Amtrak spokesman Marc Magliari said.

“We’ve talked about doing it with a train, a lot goes into doing it with a train,” Magliari said. “That’s still a great idea, but why wait? Why not put a bus connection in and allow people from Wichita to connect to the rest of the world and the rest of the world to connect to Wichita?”

One route will connect in Newton to Amtrak’s Southwest Chief, which runs from Los Angeles to Chicago with stops including Albuquerque, New Mexi-

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The agency says 12 percent of the crop is in poor to very poor shape.

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We’ve got to keep the trains running, and closing that loophole is such a simple step. For me personally, I just don’t see the political fallout.

Rep. Jim Denning, R-Overland Park

would not veto anything that the Legislature came up with to close that loophole this year,” Denning said. “So that’s a big movement from his position last year when he was 100 percent crystal clear that he was going to veto anything that we did.”

But the governor’s office suggests Denning may be jumping the gun.

“The governor will always carefully consider any bill the Legislature chooses to send him,” Brownback spokesperson Eileen Hawley said in a statement. “We will announce our proposals for balancing the budget next week when the new revenue estimates are released. A plan to raise taxes on small businesses or anyone else will not be among them.”

Denning also predicted a rather dire consensus revenue estimate when state officials and economists meet Wednesday. He expects revenue projections to be revised downward at least $150 million and as much as $250 million.

Kansas has missed revenue projections 11 of the last 12 months, including an $8.5 million shortfall in March and a $54 million shortfall in February.

The Legislature returns April 27 for its veto session, and leaders have said they hope for a quick wrap-up session.

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However, if Denning is able to push through closing the loophole, the veto session could be a bit more complicated.

That’s especially true in an election year.

“This thing is past politics to me. It’s a policy decision. It’s a business decision,” Denning said on the podcast. “We’ve got to keep the trains running, and closing that loophole is such a simple step. For me personally, I just don’t see the political fallout.”

To make up for the anticipated revenue problem, Denning said Brownback has a couple of options to balance the budget for this fiscal year, which ends June 30. He can sweep more money from the Kansas Department of Transportation budget and make other transfers.

Denning says Brownback also is prepared to cut more money from the Kansas Board of Regents budget. “I think the governor has another $17 million he plans on cutting out of higher ed, and I think they’re prepared for that.”

That would be on top of an across-the-board 3 percent cut higher education took in March after the dismal revenue performance in February.

If Denning is correct, higher education in Kansas would have a total of $34 million cut from its budget this year.

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GOP: Conservatives weary of tax debate Rescuers race to find quake survivors Continued from A1

MANTA, Ecuador (AP) — Rescuers are in a race against time to find survivors from a powerful 7.8-magnitude earthquake as the death toll from Ecuador’s strongest earthquake in decades has risen above 400.

On Monday, teams from Ecuador and neighboring countries fanned out across the country’s Pacific coastline to look for the dozens of people still missing.

In the port city of Manta, a group of about 50 rescuers working with sniffer dogs, hydraulic jacks and a drill managed to free eight people trapped for more than 32 hours in the rubble of a shopping center that was flattened by Saturday night’s quake.

The first rescue took place before dawn, when a woman was pulled headfirst from a nearly 2 1/2-foot hole

cut through concrete and steel. Firefighters applauded as she emerged from the debris, disoriented, caked in dust and complaining of pain but otherwise in good health.

Another uplifting scene played out in nearby Portoviejo, where a cellphone call to a relative from under the debris of a collapsed hotel led searchers to Pablo Cordova, the hotel’s administrator. Once he was gingerly removed, he was immobilized and hauled away on a stretcher, his hands waving in the air in a sign of appreciation to cheering onlookers.

“Since Saturday, when this country started shaking, I’ve slept only two hours and haven’t stopped working,” said Juan Carranza, one of the firefighters leading the rescue effort in Portoviejo.

ease the budget crunch.

Brownback took office on a pledge to make Kansas friendlier to business and successfully sought to cut the top personal income tax rate by 29 percent and exempt more than 330,000 farmers and business owners from income taxes. The moves were popular in a Legislature where the GOP holds three-quarters of the seats.

The governor argued that Kansas had to attract more businesses after a “lost decade” in the early 2000s, when private sector employment declined more than 4 percent.

The predicted job growth from business expansions hasn’t happened, leaving the state persistently short of money. Since November, tax collections have fallen about $81 million, or 1.9 percent below the current forecast’s predictions.

“We’re growing weary,” said Senate President Susan Wagle, a conservative Republi-

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can from Wichita. While GOP legislators still support low income taxes, “we’d prefer to see some real solutions coming from the governor’s office,” she said.

Last month, Brownback ordered $17 million in immediate reductions to universities and earlier this month delayed $93 million in contributions to pensions for school teachers and community college employees. The state has also siphoned off more than $750 million from highway projects to other parts of the budget over the past two years.

Lawmakers are worried about approving any further reductions in an election year. All 40 Senate seats and 125 House seats are on the ballot in November.

Democrats have long described Brownback’s tax cuts as reckless. Republican critics want to repeal the personal income tax break for farmers and business owners to raise an additional $200 million to $250 million a year.

Debate over the next budget will intensify after lawmakers return from a recess later this month. They could fol-

low through on their threat by adjourning without making specific reductions and leaving the governor with the authority to do so. He faces fewer repercussions because he will not appear on the ballot again before leaving office in January 2019.

Brownback rejected earlier calls to scale back the tax cuts and shows no signs of backing down.

He declined to be interviewed about the lawmakers’ unusual demand until new revenue projections are released Wednesday. Spokeswoman Eileen Hawley said the governor will release proposals afterward for balancing the budget, but, “a plan to raise taxes on small businesses or anyone else will not be among them.”

Brownback blames the economic sluggishness — the state ranked 43rd in total personal income growth in 2015 — on slumps in agriculture, energy production and aircraft manufacturing.

“You’ve got some global issues that are going on that we have absolutely no control over,” Brownback told

reporters at a recent news conference.

But Scott Drenkard, an economist for the conservative Tax Foundation, told legislators last month that farmers and business owners appeared to pocket the extra money from the state’s recent tax cuts rather than use it for expansion — “tax avoidance, not job creation.”

The state’s personal income tax collections dropped 24 percent during its 2014 budget year, down $713 million.

They’ve increased since, but the official projection for the 2017 fiscal year is less than $2.5 billion — still 15 percent off the 2013 peak.

Meanwhile, Kansas reported gaining only 800 private-sector jobs between March 2015 and March 2016, a mere 0.1 percent increase.

Last year, legislators plugged part of the budget gap by increasing sales and cigarette taxes as part of a $400 million revenue-raising package.

Brownback’s administration has floated the idea of selling off the state’s rights to future tobacco settlement payments, but lawmakers have been cold to such borrowing.

The continuing budget turmoil has been “just amateurish,” said Republican Sen. Jim Denning, a former conservative ally of Brownback’s who has become a critic. “I’m not happy with how things played out.”

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will pay for the upgrades, according to McWhirter and Jack Koehn, USD 257 Superintendent of Schools.

Several options are being considered, perhaps most prominently grant funding.

Thrive Allen County has in recent days announced its support for

the tech ed center, and is assisting the schools in the search for grants.

In addition, having the college’s commitment will make it easier for school officials to reach out to a number of business leaders to see if they’d now be willing to offer support, financial or otherwise.

All the while, FSCC will begin developing its construction trades class, likely available to juniors and seniors.

“Basic woodshop classes will still be handled at their respective high schools,” McWhirter said.

WITH pre-enrollment already underway for next fall for most districts, time is of the essence, McWhirter and Koehn agreed.

“We know we have several students already interested,” Koehn said.

Because the courses will be longer than traditional school class time — students will be at the center for either morning or afternoon sessions — schools almost certainly will need to offer “embedded” credits.

What that means is a student enrolled in the tech ed center also will receive credits for such courses as English and math.

That’s because the

construction trades courses will require more than basic math and language skills, McWhirter explained.

Through the embedded crediting process, students completing the construction class also would be tested on their math and language arts skills afterward, through a WorkKeys system. Allen Community College has offered its facilities for such testing.

“There’s a lot to be done, but we’re getting very excited,” Koehn said. “There still seems to be near universal support for this tech ed center.”

McWhirter agreed.

He also expects other districts to reach out to the tech ed center “as the other schools see the benefit.”

McWhirter noted completing the construction trades class would bring a student certification through the National Center for Construction Education and Research. “Employers are very interested in that,” McWhirter said.

Other courses, such as welding or nursing, are still being pursued, McWhirter said, “but getting the construction class commitment from FSCC was a big step for us.”

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Become a weed-killing machine with these tips If you haven’t noticed, we seem to have a good crop of dandelions, henbit and chickweed this year. I have seen some yards in the area that literally have more weeds than fescue grass growing. It is possible to get these weeds under control, but timing is crucial.

Dandelion control is recommended for the fall. However, research conducted by Purdue University has shown that good control can be achieved with a herbicide application during or soon after the first flush of flowers. Simply put, right now.

Combination product containing 2,4-D, MCPP and dicamba should be used. Trade names of products containing these herbicides include Trimec, Weed Out, WeedB-Gon, and Weed Free Zone. If there are only a

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few dandelions present, consider doing a spot treatment rather than a blanket application. Use caution when spraying as ornamental plants are very sensitive to drift from these herbicides.

If you are worried about damaging ornamentals, wait until next fall to put down herbicide. Mid-October to early November is the most effective time to control broadleaf weeds. Dandelions produce a flush of new plants in September and are easily controlled with the previous mentioned herbicides.

Henbit and chickweed is another nuisance weed

during this time of year.

Henbit is the plant with the little purple flowers that started appearing in lawns a few weeks ago. Though it actually comes up in the fall, most people don’t pay much attention to this weed until it starts to flower. Chickweed is pale green and best characterized by its small, egg or teardropshaped leaves. Chickweed flowers are white with five split petals, so it appears to actually have ten petals.

Trying to kill henbit and chickweed in the spring with a herbicide is usually a waste of time and money.

Granted, a herbicide application now will “burn� it back, but it won’t kill it.

So, what should you do? Remember, both henbit and chickweed are winter annuals – they come up in the

Texas gorilla christened ‘Gus’ PITTSBURG, Kan. (AP) — The first gorilla born in captivity at the Fort Worth Zoo in Texas has been dubbed “Gus,� thanks to fans of Pittsburg State University in Kansas who took over a social media campaign to name the animal and voted for the moniker of the school’s mascot.

When the baby gorilla was born Dec. 5, zoo officials decided to let the public name him. The campaign was swamped with votes from supporters of the Kansas university whose mascot is Augustus, popularly known as Gus, The Joplin Globe reported. “We just watched what happened, which was hysterical for us,� said Alexis Wilson, a spokeswoman for the zoo. “We had votes at the zoo and on Facebook and Twitter. When it started out of the four choices, a different name led in each (format) of the race . then social media just kinda blew up. It was so fun.� “Gus� was originally suggested to honor Gus McCrae, a character in the western “Lonesome Dove.�

When the contest

was announced, Jerry Koehler of Denton, Texas, whose son graduated from Pittsburg State, contacted Brett Dalton, coordinator of web content and social media at Pittsburg State, which has about 7,500 students Among the four options, “Gus� trailed by more than 500 votes when Dalton shared the poll on the university’s social media formats. “Gus� became the leading choice in 24 hours, and when the university officially backed the campaign, the landslide began. “It was incredible to see how our social me-

dia followers jumped on this,� Dalton said.

Visitors to the zoo also voted but Facebook and Twitter voters decided the outcome. Gus received 1,793 votes on Facebook, compared with Grover (986), Mosi (778) and Crockett (253).

Twitter results were similar, Wilson said.

Since the results were announced, the zoo has seen several people visit the zoo who were clearly Pittsburg State supporters, Wilson said.

Gus, the fifth of the Fort Worth zoo’s gorilla troop, was born to Gracie and the zoo’s silverback, Elmo.

Midwest gets jump on corn DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A stretch of sunny and dry weather has given Midwest farmers a good start on planting corn.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s weekly crop progress report was released Monday.

It shows 13 percent of Iowa’s corn crop is planted, significantly ahead of the five-year average of 3 percent planted by mid-April.

Missouri farmers have 58 percent planted, ahead of their av-

erage of 21 percent.

Kansas has more than a third of the corn crop planted, compared to the average 16 percent.

Other states ahead of average are Kentucky and Minnesota.

Nebraska is at 7 percent, ahead of its fiveyear average of 3 percent.

Planting corn early can result in an improved harvest because plants can mature to the pollination stage before summer heat stresses them.

fall and mature in the spring and die as soon as it gets hot. All that can be done now is keep them mowed until nature takes it course.

To gain control over henbit and chickweed, just like dandelions, spray in the fall to help out the following spring.

Both germinate in early fall and overwinter as juvenile plants so a herbicide application in late

October to early November can go a long way to eliminate them. During that time, the plants will be small and relatively easy to control. Here again, 2,4-D, Weed-BGon, Weed Free Zone, Weed Out or Trimec can be used.

Early spring weed control in warm-season grasses such as bermuda or zoysia should be approached with caution.

Applications of broadleaf herbicides can be safe on warm-season grasses, but only if the grass is fully dormant.

Application must be avoided if the turf has already started to break dormancy. New spring shoot growth is tender and application at this time can delay spring green-up or even cause long-lasting injury to the turf.

Your family is better than your iPhone The emergence of smartphone and tablet technology has brought the notion of screen time, once only applied to television, to virtually every aspect of modern life.

Smartphones and tablets have become part of the culture, and parents need to make decisions about appropriate screen time for their families.

Most screen time is not developmentally appropriate for children or families. Studies have shown that excessive media consumption, including Internet media, can lead to attention difficulties, school problems, sleeping and eating disorders, depression, and weight problems in both adults and children.

K-State Research and Extension, as well as the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) have screen time recommendations for families.

Families with very young children should severely limit the screen time. Ideally there should be no screen time prior to age 2.

Those families with youth ages 6-17 should provide “screen-free� zones throughout the home. Most importantly, children’s bedrooms should have no screens, including tablets, computers, and televisions.

While at first this might seem like a punishment, the reality is that children of all ages can benefit from alternate activities to screen time. Crossword puzzles, reading books, hobbies such as model building or learning to play a musical instrument, and playing outdoors are all tremendously beneficial alternatives.

These activities stimulate the child’s brain in ways that no screen technology can come close to mimicking.

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choice. Parents can even talk about the songs being heard and/or let each family member choose a station on a rotating basis.

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• If watching TV is a must, or use of the computer, decide in advance what will be viewed. To make sure time does not slip away, set a timer.

children’s screen time only accounts for half of the equation. Adults are just as drawn to screens as children, and do not have the benefit of an authority figure watching out for them. A good rule for phone and tablet use is to put them away whenever you are with children.

The National Institutes of Health recommends the whole family be limited to one to two hours of screen time per day. Here are some important ways to help limit screen time for the entire family:

While there is no escaping the new screen time, it is important to learn to how to limit it. Research shows that screen time, regardless of whether it is from a television, a tablet, or smartphone, is not nearly as stimulating as interaction with other humans. Parents are the role model for children.

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Keeping streets up to snuff is city’s responsibility Nearly 200 years ago innovative Scottish engineer John Loudon McAdam perfected a road-construction method that would come to bear his name.

Macadam road surfaces were made from several layers of small stones compacted and bound together by dust. Sometimes a course of even finer stones topped off the project and made for a smoother surface.

Rock roads are still a feature in rural areas and come about in a similar process. But roads that are expected to carry more traffic are hard-surfaced, asphalt or concrete.

Six blocks of State Street south of Madison Avenue were redone last week. The original surface was milled away and new layers of asphalt were added by Se-Kan Asphalt Services.

For years Iola has kept pace with street needs. In a four-year cycle all city streets are improved with the chip-and-seal process, which entails hot oil and small-diameter rock being laid over the original surface. That Iola leaders have been faithful in keeping to the schedule is a perk most folks take for granted. In Humboldt, it’s another matter.

For whatever reasons, Humboldt has been lax

in keeping its streets up to snuff, a condition that causes City Administrator Cole Herder, two years on the job, more than a little consternation. No improvements of consequence have been done in the neighborhoods for a decade or so, and a sales tax issue several years ago to address the issue failed to excite voters.

Herder, Mayor Nobby Davis and council members are well aware of the problem and mean to do what they can to rectify it.

An inherent problem is absence of curbs and gutters, which permit streets to expand and break apart on the edges. Some streets have little more than a single driving lane that is intact.

The most recent step in the direction of better streets has been the city’s purchase of several pieces of equipment that will help local crews upgrade streets.

More is needed.

Herder, during completion of a course in city management, laid out plans for a comprehensive street improvement program. Citizens should embrace whatever is needed to make the proposal fly.

Waiting will only add to cost and cause streets to deteriorate even more.

— Bob Johnson

Zika virus gets scarier as we learn more about it The link between the Zika virus and microcephaly in babies was confirmed last week by scientists at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the latest in a series of increasingly troubling revelations about the mosquitoborne disease.

First, it’s not just mosquito-borne; it can also be passed among humans via sexual contact. That’s alarming because an outbreak can really get rolling when a pathogen can spread without the help of animals or insects. Since symptoms are so mild, if present at all, many carriers of the virus may pass it along without realizing they were infected.

The more scientists learn about Zika, the worse the news gets for the next generation. It is a factor in premature birth, blindness and other defects in babies when their mothers are infected during pregnancy. And the mosquito responsible for most of the spread of the infection ranges more widely in the U.S. than thought just

weeks ago: 30 states rather than just 12. As the CDC’s Anne Schuchat put it last week: “This virus seems to be a bit scarier than we initially thought.”

Yes, it certainly is. Zika infections are mounting quickly in the Americas (more than 800 have been reported on U.S. turf alone, about half in Puerto Rico), and those numbers are sure to explode once mosquito season gets going. More federal funding is crucial to vaccine development and other programs to stop the virus’ spread.

The new information about Zika should weigh heavily on Congress when it decides whether to allocate $1.9 billion in emergency funding, as requested by the CDC and the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. Lawmakers balked when President Barack Obama first asked for the money in February.

But that was before we understood just how insidious this seemingly mild-mannered flavivirus can be.

— Los Angeles Times

U.S. nowhere near a debt crisis There are sometimes good reasons to be worried about the U.S. national debt. The debt has to be serviced, and that requires collecting taxes, which distort the economy. If government debt gets so large that the only way to avoid a default is to hold down interest rates forever, those low rates can eventually have negative effects on the economy. In the worst-case scenario, investors can lose their confidence in a government’s ability to repay its debt, forcing the central bank to print money to fund the government, which raises the risk of inflation.

However, the U.S. is nowhere near this point. The national debt is modest and sustainable, and the federal government’s borrowing has been remarkably responsible.

You wouldn’t know this from reading the breathless debt hysterics in the media.

Just recently, Time ran a cover story entitled “The United States of Insolvency.” It simultaneously ran other debt scare stories, such as one by Maya MacGuineas, who heads two think tanks devoted to lob-

I was so mad by the time I finished reading that school bill with all the restrictions on how that money could be spent, I could have bit into a nail.

I don’t see how those spineless creatures that call themselves legislators can look a school-age child or their parents in the eye.

I know that money is short. It is because no one had the guts to stand up to Brownback. They should

have sent a bill with a little common sense in it, and let the courts force the state to fund schools. They could cut the governor’s pay and make him pay his own bodyguards to make the budget stretch.

I notice there was no mention of our governor being at the governor’s turkey hunt.

Could be he was afraid someone would accidentally shoot the wrong turkey.

I don’t understand these people who don’t believe in paying taxes. That is what

Bloomberg View (TNS) bying for lower government debt. According to Time’s article, every American owes about $43,000 because of the national debt.

This concern is misplaced for a large number of reasons.

First, the U.S. government isn’t insolvent. Insolvency tends to happen when liabilities are greater than assets.

That’s very basic accounting.

One of the U.S. government’s assets is its ability to tax the U.S. economy for revenue.

The national debt — which includes debt held by the public and money owed to other branches of the government — is only equal to about six years’ worth of tax revenue.

If the U.S. devoted a fifth of tax revenue to paying down the entire national debt, it would take 30 years to do it.

That’s not insolvency.

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The Internal Revenue Service seized the bank accounts of Walton Foundry Tuesday, effectively closing the long-time Iola industry.

Dick Dewey, plant manager, said the IRS had filed against the company to recover unpaid withholding taxes. The foundry is owned by Jim Hixson and Don Culbertson of Kansas City. Dewey said efforts are being made to find a new owner and operator. ***** HUMBOLDT — On average, teachers in the Humboldt school system are among the best paid in Kansas. A report from the State Department of Education shows the average teacher’s salary in the Humboldt dis-

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Noah Smith

our country was built on.

When they destroy the endangered species, commonly called the middle class, who do they think is going to pay the bills?

Most of these people, plus their children, got their education at the taxpayers’ expense, and now they want to deny future generations this privilege.

Man, I miss common sense.

Maude Burns Iola, Kan.

trict ranks 5th among the 303 districts. Only three districts in the Kansas City area and USD 220 in Ashland have higher average salaries. The average pay for Humboldt teachers is $25,288. This year’s average in USD 257 is $22,499. The starting salary in Humboldt is $15,300 and in Iola, $15,500. *****

Thad Parker, a junior at Iola High School, has been selected to participate in the International 4-H Youth Exchange program this summer as an ambassador to the Netherlands. Parker, son of Mr. and Mrs. Gary Parker of Moran, will spend two days in Washington, D.C. in an orientation program before flying to Belgium. ***** TOPEKA (AP) — “Hallelujah!” was the first word out of Senate President Bob Talkington’s mouth after banging his gavel and bringing an end to the 71st Legislature early this morning.

“This was a victory for the people of Kansas” he said of the session which was climaxed by the passage of Gov. John Carlin’s proposal to raise the state’s 3 percent sales tax by a penny. “I’ve been asked why I agreed to carry the Carlin administration tax package and I said ‘because I think that’s what we need.’ I felt we really did need it and I’m proud we passed it.”

Next, just because the U.S. government owes money doesn’t mean the U.S. itself owes money. Those are two totally different things. The percent of U.S. national debt owed to foreigners has risen since the 1980s, but is still only about a third of the total: The other two-thirds is owed to American investors. If the federal government paid down the national debt, two-thirds of the money would be paid to Americans.

As a percentage of the federal debt held by the public (the eye-popping number on the Time cover), it’s about 45 percent. So the real amount the average American owes, on net, because of the federal debt isn’t $43,000, but more like $19,400.

That’s not quite as scary, is it?

Also, some of these writers are saying that the debt is growing faster than the economy. This was true during the years of the Great Recession, but it’s no longer the case. The federal debt held by the public is now growing at about a 3 percent rate, while the economy is growing at about a 3.4 percent rate (these are both in nominal terms). In other words, the U.S. deficit is now perfectly sustainable.

This represents a remarkable — possibly even excessive — display of fiscal responsibility by the U.S. government.

During the Great Recession, when millions were out of work, the government ran a big deficit in an effort to stimulate the economy. But as the economy recovered, higher taxes brought in more revenue and spending was reined in. Incidentally, this is exactly what standard Keynesian economic policy suggests.

There’s even an argument to be made that the government turned to austerity too soon, and made the 2012 recovery a bit slower than it could have been.

To see how government borrowing has been curbed, look at a graph of the rate of growth of the ratio of federal public debt to gross domestic product: When this growth rate is positive, the debt is growing unsustainably. When it’s negative, indebtedness is shrinking. Note how the U.S. has swung into sustainable territory for the first time since the late 1990s.

So the U.S. debt isn’t frighteningly large, nor is it growing in relation to the economy.

In the future, it might do so, if health care prices accelerate again, or if the population ages more. But the U.S. can take steps to address those contingencies when they happen. For now, the U.S. is living in the greatest period of fiscal responsibility since the second Clinton administration.

Resist the urge to engage in debt hysterics, please.

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Freshmen stand out for Mustangs in Coffeyville

Red Devil center fielder Marrissa Lilly takes a swing during Friday’s game with Cowley College. Lilly was the Red Devils’ player of the month for March. REGISTER/JON DYKSTRA

HONOR LUNCH Red Devils’ Womack, Sumerlin earn April awards

By JON DYKSTRA The Iola Register

Allen Community College honored its players of the month from February, March and April on Monday at a luncheon hosted at Dudley’s BBQ. This month’s honors went to softball’s Ashley Womack and baseball’s Torrence Sumerlin.

Womack has spent April crushing softballs. In just 13 games, she is hit-

ting .455 with seven home runs.

She also has team-highs in both RBIs and runs scored with 27 and 14 apiece.

The sophomore’s highlight of the month came on April 7, when her walk-off home run in extra innings beat Neosho County Community College.

Womack’s efforts have helped See RED DEVILS | Page B4

COFFEYVILLE — The Iola track and field team was led by its talented freshman class again Friday in the Montgomery County Classic in Coffeyville.

Tayton Driskel has been one of the most well-rounded Mustangs all season.

D r i s k e l picked up four medals.

His top individual finish was a third-place showing in the long jump with a jump of 18 feet, 10 inches. He wasfourth in the triple jump at 38’8”.

Driskel was fifth in the 100-meter dash and picked up his fourth medal as a member of the 4x400 relay that took third.

Fellow freshman Cole Regehr joined Driskel on the successful 4x400 relay. Regehr earned an individual medal in the 1600-meter run with a personal-best time of 5 minutes, 17 seconds, for fifth place.

Regehr also was a member of Iola’s fourth-place 4x800 relay team.

Classmate Blake Haar joined Regehr on the 4x800 relay and picked up a fifth-place finish in the 800-meter run with a 2:24.

Among the top finishing upperclassmen was Nathan Sprague. He took third in the 400-meter run with a time of 55.38 seconds. “(Sprague) has had a really nice season,” Iola coach Dana Daugharthy said. “I look forSee TRACK | Page B4

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Goodell denies Chiefs Splechter shines in 3200 appeal of tampering KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The Chiefs’ appeal of antitampering violations was denied by NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell on Monday, a decision that drew a strong rebuke from influential owner and team chairman Clark Hunt.

Kansas City will forfeit its third-round pick in next week’s draft and its sixthround pick next year, though its $250,000 fine was reduced to $200,000 and coach Andy Reid’s fine was reduced from $75,000 to $60,000.

The Chiefs were found to have had direct communication with then-free agent wide receiver Jeremy Maclin, who had been drafted by Reid in Philadelphia, during the league’s negotiating period. That communication is considered a violation of the NFL’s tampering rules.

While the Chiefs have never denied the tampering charges, they maintained that the penalties handed down last month were inconsistent with those

levied in similar cases.

“We appreciate the opportunity to make our appeal on this matter, and we acknowledge the minor reduction in fines,” Hunt said in a statement Monday. “However, we continue to believe that the facts of this case combined with the league’s inconsistent enforcement of its tampering policies do not warrant the most severe penalty for player-related tampering in league history.”

In 2008, the San Francisco 49ers were found guilty of tampering with Chicago linebacker Lance Briggs by contacting his agent, Drew Rosenhaus, during the season without the Bears’ permission. The 49ers were stripped of their fifthround pick and had to swap third-round choices with Chicago as penalties.

Three years later, the Chiefs accused Detroit of tampering when ex-coach Gunther Cunningham — then the Lions’ defensive coordinator — said he would be interested in signing players Kansas City released. The Lions lost their sixth-round pick and had to See CHIEFS | Page B3

WICHITA — Yates Center’s track and field team competed in the Pre-State Challenge in Wichita on Saturday and came away with several top-five finishers — including an individual champion — and set a new school record.

The school record came in the 2000-meter steeple chase. The Wildcats had never had an athlete attempt the event in competition so Brett Holloway’s fourth-place finish in 6:55 will go down in the school record book.

They earned their first-place finisher in the 3200-meter run where Hadley Splechter continued his stellar freshman campaign.

He finished the race with a time of 10:23.

Splechter also took a second-place finish in the 1600-meter run.

Levi Cooper took second in the 200-meter dash and the relay team of Mikey Bruner, Jordan Smith, Holloway and Splechter took second in the 4x800.

Makayla Jones was the top finisher on the girls side of the action, earning a second-place mark in the discus.

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many employees, including him, regularly fall asleep at the wheel on their drives home and feel they “are not treated like human beings.”

Both Nuckolls and Lewis are representatives at the Larned hospital of the Kansas Organization of State Employees, a union for government workers.

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workers fear they’ll be disciplined if they don’t work overtime and are forced to stay on the job if they are sick.

Nearly 240 positions at the hospital, or 26 percent, were vacant as of last week, according to the state Department for Aging and Disability Services. Interim Secretary Tim Keck said the department is pursuing several short-term initiatives to ease the strain on employees.

Keck also said state will have to consider pay raises, and he later outlined $17 million in additional spending for the state’s two mental hospitals that included a pay raise for mental health technicians. Most of the money would be spent at Osawatomie State Hospital in eastern Kansas; Keck said working conditions are the bigger concern for Larned employees.

Lawmakers’ concerns about both hospitals intensified after the federal government in December decertified Osawatomie over the reported rape of an employee and other safety issues. Nuckolls and Lewis testified about Larned during a meeting of a joint House-Senate oversight committee on social services.

“This has been building up for a long time,” the committee’s chairman, Rep. Dan Hawkins, a Wichita Republican, told the two Larned employees. “It’s steadily getting worse and worse and worse.”

Lewis said the forced overtime at Larned makes working conditions there unacceptable, and Nuckolls said exhausted workers are more prone to mistakes — and fear they’ll be fired for making them. He said

He said the hospital needs “a change in culture” so that it becomes “a good place to work again.”

Staffing has been a persistent issue at both hospitals. Keck said he’s asking Republican Gov. Sam Brownback’s budget staff to include his spending proposals in recommendations to lawmakers.

The Legislature returns April 27 from its annual spring break to wrap up its business for the year.

Keck’s proposals include nearly $6 million to cover the federal funds lost through Osawatomie’s decertification, as well as nearly $1.3 million for consultants who are working on regaining certification.

At Larned, mental health technicians would see a 2.5 percent increase in their pay so that they would start at $13.95 an hour.

The Larned hospital’s last permanent superintendent, Tom Kinlen, resigned in March. Keck last week named Chris Mattingly, an Oklahoma City-area hospital management consultant, to run Larned for the next six months.

Keck said KDADS has for about a month allowed employees who are not direct-care workers to volunteer to work overtime in direct-care positions.

Also, he said, KDADS is working with the Department of Corrections to have workers at a prison mental health center on the Larned hospital campus take overtime shifts at the hospital.

KDADS also earlier this month began transferring 60 prison inmates who were being treated at the state hospital back to the corrections facility there, so the hospital can shut down two units and free up their staff.

Fido fraudster fined WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A Wichita man who pretended to be a veterinarian and stole thousands of dollars in fraud schemes was sentenced to five years’ probation.

The Sedgwick County District Attorney’s office announced Monday that 49-year-old Danny Thomas also was ordered to

pay $6,559 to his victims and $29,347 to the Kansas Department of Labor for unemployment benefits he should not have received.

Prosecutors say Thomas said he was Chase McKnight and passed forged checks to buy equipment for a pet-care facility that didn’t exist.

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Curry-less Warriors beat Rockets OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — As Stephen Curry emphatically waved his arms to ignite the crowd and coached from the bench when he could do little else, Klay Thompson and the Golden State Warriors’ supporting cast picked up the slack for their absent NBA MVP to hold off the Houston Rockets 115-106 on Monday night and take a 2-0 lead in their playoff series.

Thompson scored 34 points and dished out five assists for the defending champions, playing without Curry because of an injured right ankle. Curry cut short his pregame warmup routine after ap-

pearing to be in discomfort as he was shooting while putting little pressure on the tender ankle.

Andre Iguodala, last year’s Finals MVP, added 18 points with four 3-pointers and Draymond Green had 12 points, 14 rebounds and eight assists.

Now, Curry has until Thursday’s Game 3 in Houston to get healthy.

James Harden had 28 points and 11 assists to lead the Rockets, losers of six straight and 14 of 15 to Golden State. He made 13 of 15 free throws after not attempting one in the opener.

MAVERICKS 85, THUNDER 84

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A putback at the buzzer by Oklahoma City’s Steven Adams that would have won the game was disallowed upon review, and Dallas defeated the Thunder 85-84 to even the Western Conference playoff series at one win apiece.

Dallas had been embarrassed 108-70 in the opener on Saturday, but the Mavericks held Oklahoma City to 33.7 percent shooting on Monday.

Raymond Felton scored 21 points and Dirk Nowitzki added 17 for the Mavericks. Deron Williams, declared doubtful on Sunday with a left abdominal

strain, scored 13 points, 11 in the game’s first 5 minutes.

Kevin Durant scored 21 points for Oklahoma City, but he made just 7 of 33 shots in one of the worst postseason shooting performances of his career.

Game 3 is Thursday in Dallas.

RAPTORS 98, PACERS 87

TORONTO (AP) — Jonas Valanciunas had 23 points and 15 rebounds and Kyle Lowry had 18 points, nine assists and seven rebounds as Toronto snapped its postseason losing streak at seven games.

The Raptors had not won a playoff game since

a 115-113 home victory over Brooklyn on April 30, 2014.

Corey Joseph scored 16 points, Patrick Patterson added 14 and DeMar DeRozan had 10 as the Raptors evened the firstround series at 1-1.

Paul George scored 28 points and Monta Ellis had 15 for the Pacers, who host Game 3 on Thursday.

Lowry and DeRozan both struggled with their shooting in Saturday’s Game 1 loss, combining to make eight of 32 attempts.

Neither was particularly sharp in this one, with Lowry making four of 13 and DeRozan making five of 18.

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Chiefs all smiles to begin offseason workout program KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Just about everyone who walked through the doors of the Kansas City Chiefs’ practice facility for the start of offseason conditioning Monday wore a wide smile on their face.

The way things have gone the past couple months, they were probably happy to be back to work.

From tampering charges that cost them hefty fines and draft picks this season and

next season, to the knee surgery on top pass rusher Justin Houston that could keep him out all season, to early retirements of Mike DeVito and Husain Abdullah, there has been little good news emanating from Arrowhead Drive.

Even the signing of veteran pass rusher Tamba Hali carried a cloudy lining: The Chiefs squandered some much-needed salary-cap space by failing to reach the agreement by a dead-

line contained in his previous deal.

So yes, Derrick Johnson and Co. were happy to be lifting weights and worrying about football again.

“The team is always different when you come back, regardless of what year it is,” said Johnson, who signed a three-year deal this offseason to stick with the Chiefs.

“First day of OTAs, first day of offseason training, it’s good to get back with the guys that have been off a few months.”

Catch up on each other’s rehab, too.

Start with star running back Jamaal Charles, who tore his right ACL last season.

The former All-Pro watched the Chiefs win their first playoff game in more than two decades from the training room, but has started

to run and is eying the start of training camp for getting back on the field.

“I’m in the stage of running right now, just basically trying to get my leg caught up to my left leg and get that strength back in it,” he said. “I’m very fortunate to walk and now run.”

Then there’s cornerback Phillip Gaines, who tore the ACL in his left knee but it also back to running. His return could prove crucial to a secondary that lost physical cornerback Sean Smith to AFC West-rival Oakland.

“It’s getting there,” he said. “The training staff is doing an unbelievable job with me. I fought through a tough time — any time you’re away from football is hard.

They kept with me.”

Dustin Colquitt also

had knee surgery, though the punter’s procedure was more to “clean out” the crucial joint than repair anything. Colquitt said he’s been working out for about two months, including some running and kicking, and “’m glad everybody is back. The building is pretty empty in the offseason.”

Hali, whose threeyear deal came after the Chiefs learned of Houston’s injury, also had minor knee surgery after dealing with swelling much of last season.

The longtime Chiefs pass rusher plans to take a similar approach to this season, which means resting much of the week to be ready for game day.

Defensive tackle Dontari Poe said his back feels better after having surgery last summer,

and acknowledged Monday that he may not have been “100 percent” at any point during the season. Several other players also reported in good health, including left tackle Eric Fisher, who has dealt with several injuries early in his career.

As for the tampering charges, the Chiefs had their appeal of penalties rejected late Monday, which means they lose their third-round pick this year and sixthrounder next year. Wide receiver Jeremy Maclin, whose free agency was at the center of the case, declined to discuss it in detail.

“It’s been a weird situation,” Maclin said, “but I’m happy with where I’m at. I wouldn’t change it for the world and everything else will take care of itself.”

Mustang tennis competes in Chanute CHANUTE — The Iola tennis team sat through an hour-long rain delay before its tournament in Chanute on Monday, but they didn’t show any signs of it when they finally took the court.

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The Chiefs have no further options under the league’s appeal process.

Maclin declined to discuss the case in detail Monday when he reported to the Chiefs’ practice facility for the start of their offseason program, though he did say he was “shocked in a way” by the penalties.

“It’s been a weird situation,” said Maclin, who appeared to validate his $55 million, five-year contract by catching a career-high 87 passes for 1,088 yards and eight touchdowns last season.

“You have to take responsibility for what we do,” Maclin said. “Stats aren’t going to justify what happened with the whole situation. .... As far as me and my situation, I did what I could to help the team.”

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guarantee the opportunity for ACC softball to host its first playoff series since 2011 when they won 41 games.

“It is super exciting that we get to host,” Womack said. “I think we will have a big homefield advantage.”

Allen’s record has improved in both of Womack’s years at the school.

The season before she arrived the team went 6-40. Last year, they finished 15-29 and now they are currently 28-18 on the year.

“It has been really fun,” Womack said.

“Everyone has stepped up these last couple of months. We have so much fun playing as a team.”

Sumerlin has helped the baseball team to a similar season. They have secured a playoff berth and sit 25-19 this season.

“We have a number of good hitters,” Sumerlin said. “You can trust anyone off the bench. If coach calls somebody off the bench or somebody gets injured, we have lots of people to fill the spot and we trust them.”

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and a pair of home runs.

The left fielder had 11 RBIs and seven doubles in the 12 games.

Awards for March went to softball’s Marissa Lilly and track and field’s Aaron Miller.

Lilly patrols center field for the Red Devils and during March held down the No. 2 spot in the lineup.

She hit .340 in the month with 16 runs scored and 14 RBIs. She also hit a home run during March.

Miller represented the track team. He is the school-record holder in the outdoor 800-meter run with a 1:53.18.

Allen Community College’s players of the month for the last three months were, from left to right, softball’s Baileigh Rager, softball’s Marissa Lilly, track’s Aaron Miller, softball’s Ashley Womack, baseball’s Torey Jordan and baseball’s Torrence Sumerlin. They were honored Monday. REGISTER/JON DYKSTRA on a tear this month, batting .400 with eight home runs in just 13 games. He also has 25 RBIs in those games.

“I’m just seeing the ball well,” Sumerlin said. “Hitting is contagious. When my teammates hit in front of me,

I need to pick them up and hit as well. We are having fun out there.”

Sumerlin has been happy with his defense behind the plate recently.

“I take a lot of pride in it,” he said.

February’s honorees were softball’s Baileigh

Leonard wins Defensive Player of the Year SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Kawhi Leonard tends to shrug off all the accolades for his defensive prowess.

He will almost always credit his teammates and coach for any praise he receives.

It was no different Monday as Leonard won his second straight NBA Defensive Player of the Year award after helping the San Antonio Spurs have the league’s best defense.

“I just hide behind (his teammates) in the game, really,” Leonard said.

“They give me the confidence to pressure my man and get into the ball handler. The bigs are there on the help side if the

guy goes by me and I’m able to switch to other offensive players and all the other guards on my team to guard the best offensive player.”

Except coach Gregg Popovich isn’t so sure about all of that.

“He’s a team-oriented individual for sure,” Popovich said. “But I’ve got to tell you, I don’t think he knows when those guys are back there or not, he just goes and does what he does. He just plays. He’s giving credit to everyone as he should, he’s a wonderful young man, but the things he does amaze me night after night and the fact he does it at both ends

really is something and then he rebounds on top of it. So, he’s a pretty special guy.”

Leonard beat out Draymond Green in voting Monday to become the first noncenter to win the award in consecutive seasons since Dennis Rodman in 1989-90 and 1990-91.

The 6-foot-7 Leonard received 84 firstplace votes and 547 points from a panel of 130 sports writers and broadcasters throughout the U.S. and Canada. Green, the forward for Golden State, was runner-up for the second straight year.

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her eight pitching appearances in the month and posted a 4-1 record with a save. She had a 20-4 strikeout to walk ratio.

Jordan posted a dominant opening month of the baseball season with a .488 batting average

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games at Tabor have been cancelled for the Red Devils due to rain.

No make-up date has been released yet.

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ward to seeing what he is going to do the rest of the year.”

Chase Regehr also had a good meet. He finished just behind Sprague in the 400 meters, coming

in fourth with a time of 56.81 seconds. He also ran on both the 4x400 and 4x800 relays.

Jessica Oakley was the top Iola finisher on the girls’ side. She earned a fourth-place

finish in the discus with a throw of 94-1.

“It was a personal best for her,” Daugharthy said. “I look for her to continue getting better.”

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Rager opened the spring season on fire on both the mound and at the plate. She hit .533 in 11 games in the month with four home runs.

She also was able to maintain a 1.45 ERA in

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Two tips for clearing your tunnels Dear Dr. Roach: Recently, I was diagnosed as having carpal tunnel syndrome. It seems to be getting worse, despite my having been given a cortisone injection in my wrist and wearing a sling when I sleep or do repetitive work, as advised by both my primary and orthopedic physicians. I would appreciate any advice from you and would like your opinion on whether surgery would be advisable. The condition is in my left hand, but I’m not left-handed. I seem to feel the most pain while in bed, and it often keeps me from getting a good night’s sleep. My symptoms run the gamut from numbness and tingling to pain and stiffness. I’m now starting to get some numbness in my right hand as well. Can this condition be present in both of my hands? Could this be something other than CTS? — B.B.

Dr. Keith Roach To Your Good Health Answer: It could very well be carpal tunnel syndrome, which is caused by compression of the median nerve in the carpal tunnel, an anatomic structure in the wrist. You have identified some of the major symptoms: pain (usually in the thumb, index, middle and half of the ring finger, often radiating up to the elbow but rarely above), tingling sensation in the same distribution, and with severe disease, weakness and atrophy of the hand muscles (specifically the large muscles at the base of the thumb, called the thenar eminence).

A physical exam usually is sufficient to make the diagnosis; however, I would not recommend

surgery without a definitive diagnosis, which can be made by an electromyography test. An EMG can differentiate carpal tunnel syndrome from other causes, such as compression of the nerves of the brachial plexus, in the axilla, or of the nerve roots as they exit the cervical spinal cord in the neck.

The relief from injections in the wrist seldom lasts for more than a few months, and braces and lifestyle changes also sometimes are ineffective, though they are always worth trying. Surgery is effective about 98 percent of the time, as long as the diagnosis is correct.

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Mean girls making daughter’s life miserable

By CAROLYN HAX Tell Me About It

Hi, Carolyn: My 9-yearold daughter is a bright, funny, creative, kind girl who has in the past been on the receiving end of some mean-girl behavior.

We have worked with the school and with a private counselor and she is doing better.

My husband and I have a group of close friends who socialize and sometimes travel together. The daughters of two friends often leave her out. When

I bring up the exclusion with the other moms, they come to the defense of their daughters.

One of the girls said recently, “Well, I don’t think we should be expected to play with her.” Since then, we have not seen any of these friends socially.

Should we withdraw from this group to avoid subjecting my girl to being hurt and excluded? It will make me sad, but I want to do what’s best for my daughter.

— Protecting My Daughter

Protecting My Daughter: “I don’t think we should be expected to play with her”? Please don’t waste your sadness on the parent who defended this girl. Wow. Yes, it is hard to socialize with people we dislike, but a kid who publicly expresses zero respect for another’s feelings is due a long talk with a responsible parent. No exceptions.

The sound of crickets here is very damning of these other moms.

When a fellow parent brings up a child’s exclu-

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I’ll talk to my kid to see what’s going on.” Defending a child’s right to mistreat others is parental protectiveness run amok.

Even if the girls have legitimate reasons to distance themselves from your daughter, these moms owe it to any fellow parent to get at the truth and role-play with their girls some civil ways to coexist with people they might not choose as friends.

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Wildcats: Track & field results Continued from B1

Top Results: (all 1A-3A Division unless noted) Boys 100 — 14. (Elite division) Levi Cooper 11.82; 5. Thayne Smith 11.82; 200 — 2. Cooper 23.45; 400 — 6. Nolan Jones 55.65; 800 — 19. Mikey Bruner 2:17.84; 1600 — 2. Hadley Splechter 4:47; 3200 — 1. Splechter

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Holloway 39-7; Shot Put — 13. Tyler Harris 372; Discus — 15. Harris 108-11; 110 Hurdles — 13.

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Girls 800 — 12. Andrea Vining 2:54; Long Jump — 13. Vining 12-1; Shot Put — 9. Makayla Jones 296; Discus — 2. Makayla Jones 100-9; 300 Hurdles — 13. Vining 55.36.

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