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Monday, November 14, 2016
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High court to take up hot cases
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Now that Kansas voters have decided against removing any state Supreme Court justices, the court will turn its attention to cases involving education funding, capital punishment and abortion that led critics to try to remake the court. Efforts to remove four of the seven justices started with critics of past rulings that overturned death Lawton Nuss sentences in capital murder cases. The justices plan to hear arguments in December in the case of a man sentenced to die for killing his estranged wife and three other family members in northeastern Kansas. Abortion opponents and conservative Republicans also wanted to remove the justices ahead of major rulings on abortion and school funding cases. The court has yet to hear the abortion case, but a ruling on education funding is expected by early next year. A look at the ouster effort and major cases before the Supreme Court:
On Friday, fourth-graders welcomed former service members — dads and uncles, mothers and aunts, grandparents and family friends of the students — to a Veterans Day celebration at Lincoln Elementary. The vets told of their time in the military and proffered words of wisdom. The students sang a handful of patriotic songs. The moving hour-long tribute was hosted and organized by fourth-grade teacher Mary Ann Regehr. Pictured, clockwise, are: Glenn Peterson; LaPrincia Pulley, with her grandparents Patricia and Armand Pulley; Mrs. Regehr, with students; Eugene Wille; Ed Wilkerson, with his daughter Emilia; and Elza Clift, who holds a framed photo of her great-great uncle, a POW. REGISTER/RICK DANLEY
JUSTICES TO STAY
The court’s critics targeted Chief Justice Lawton Nuss and Justices Marla Luckert, Carol Beier and Dan Biles for removal in statewide yes-or-no votes to determine whether they See COURT | Page A4
State reviews waitlist for disabled By ANDY MARSO KHI News Service
President-elect Donald Trump announced Sunday that Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus and former head of Breitbart News Stephen Bannon will be taking senior positions in Trump’s White House. Above, Preibus joins Trump at an earlier campaign event.
Trump team takes shape
WASHINGTON (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump is making an overture to warring Republican circles by appointing GOP chief Reince Priebus as his White House chief of staff and Breitbart News executive Stephen Bannon as chief strategist and senior counselor. The two men had made up the president-elect’s chief of staff shortlist, and while Priebus received that job, Bannon’s post also is expected to wield significant clout. The media executive with ties to the alt-right and white nationalist movement was given top billing in the press
release announcing their appointments. Priebus today defended the media mogul, saying the two made an effective pair as they steered Trump past Democrat Hillary Clinton and toward the presidency. He sought to distance Bannon from the incendiary headlines on his website, saying they were written by unspecified others. “Together, we’ve been able to manage a lot of the decision making in regard to the campaign,” Priebus told NBC’s “Today.” “It’s worked very, very well.” Trump’s hires were, at first See TRUMP | Page A4
Quote of the day Vol. 119, No. 14
State officials are asking Kansans with physical disabilities to contact them if they believe they were improperly dropped from a waiting list for support services through Medicaid. Brandt Haehn, the state’s commissioner for home and community-based services within the Kansas Department for Aging and Disability Services, said the state is prepared to make service offers to those who step forward. “If you think you are on the waiting list and have not received an offer, we want to hear from you,” Haehn said. The state reported in August that the waiting list for physical disability support services provided under Medicaid had been eliminated. But that announcement came after controversy over how the state culled the list since taking it over from Centers for Independent Living that serve Kansans with disabilities throughout the state. Megan Buck, an official with the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, sent the state a letter last month saying the CMS regional office has received reports of Kansans with disabilities who were dropped
“If you think you are on the waiting list and have not received an offer, we want to hear from you,” said Brandt Haehn, of KDADS.
from the list improperly — something the Centers for Independent Living had warned of for years. Amy Hyten, an attorney and assistant director of the Topeka Independent Living Resource Center, said that after the state announced the elimination of the waiting list, she went back and located archived names of clients her organization added to the waiting list in 2011 and 2012. “We circled back around and tried to make as much contact as possible with as many of them as possible,” Hyten said. There were about 70 cli-
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ents from those old lists, and attempts to contact most of them failed. But Hyten’s staff did track down seven of them. “Almost every single one of them had not been offered services,” Hyten said. “When we brought that to the attention of KDADS, eventually they were given a rescreening and an offer of services.” The two waiting lists for Kansans with physical and developmental disabilities have been a source of conflict between the Centers for Independent Living and Gov. Sam Brownback’s administration since 2012, when the U.S. DeSee DISABLED | Page A4
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