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Iola council continues hospital curve debate

By RICHARD LUKEN The Iola Register

With construction of a new G&W Foods grocery store expected to start as early as April, and a potential apartment complex coming in shortly thereafter, Iola City Council members discussed once again whether the old hospital curve nearby needs to be redesigned.

Council members agreed that now is the time to consid-

INSIDE: Council member ailing — See A3 er any changes, but differed on how to approach those changes, and what type of study was necessary.

The first step, they ultimately agreed — following a 40-plus minute discussion — was to get data on the number of traffic accidents at the curve’s intersection with Madison Avenue, First Street and East Street.

They also directed Carl Slaugh to begin inquiring with the Kansas Department of Transportation about the possibility of adding a crosswalk somewhere near or along the curve, where U.S. 54 intersects with First Street, a popular crossing point for schoolchildren.

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City budget tight

By RICHARD LUKEN The Iola Register

Mild weather in 2015 has been kind to Iola utility customers, but hard on the city’s bottom line, City Administrator Carl Slaugh noted.

Slaugh gave City Council members a quick glimpse Monday at the city’s year-

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Natural gas sales are down; the city’s water fund is in the black, but still not generating enough revenue to make ongoing loan payments to pay off the city’s water treatment plant; and the electric fund has taken See BUDGET | Page A3

Pastor/cop files for sheriff race

By RICK DANLEY The Iola Register

By BOB JOHNSON The Iola Register

HUMBOLDT — The Humboldt school board is inviting the community to weigh in on the future of the Walter Johnson Athletic Field in an open meeting Jan. 11 at 6:30 p.m. at the district office.

Constructed during that tender gap in the country’s history, between the stock market crash and the start of the Second World War, the stadium on Sixth Street and Pine has hosted generations of Humboldt athletes and their families. But in recent years, with the construction of the new sports complex east of town, the old WPA grounds have lain (largely) fallow.

Kelley Zellner, Humboldt, filed for the Republican nomination for Allen County sheriff Monday, ensuring a run-off for GOP voters in the Aug. 2 primary election.

I n c u m b e n t Kelley Zellner Bryan Murphy, also a Republican, has filed for re-election.

Jared Froggatte, an Iola police officer, also is known to be circulating a nomination petition, which if successful would make it a three-man race. Potential candidates for sheriff and other county of-

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Humboldt chief eyes school safety

By BOB JOHNSON The Iola Register

HUMBOLDT — Admitting he gets a little emotional when broaching the topic, Chief of Police Brian Dillow told Humboldt Council members Monday evening he wants to be well prepared should an active shooter threaten Humboldt schools.

“You can’t say it never will happen here ... and if you do nothing you’ll never be prepared,” was Dillow’s admonition during a review of what has been done.

Dillow has already met with administrators to discuss what response should be before — and after — law enforcement officers are notified, if such an event were to unfold. He used the acronym ALICE in his presentation: alert the school body; lock down the school; inform officers; counter the threat — with care; and evacuate, if See HUMBOLDT | Page A6

As the 2015 Christmas season enters its home stretch, area youngsters will have only a few more chances to meet Santa before he returns to the North Pole in advance of his global Christmas Eve trek.

Santa’s house, on the courthouse square, will open for the final time Thursday evening, starting at 5. On Friday, a 5:30 p.m. parade will escort Santa to his Toy Shop at 7 E. Madison where he will begin seeing children at 6 p.m. The parade starts at the intersection of Jefferson and Broadway streets.

Youngsters are welcome to accompany Santa by playing kazoos as he rolls into downtown Iola. Santa’s Toy Shop reopens at 6 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, and by appointment on Monday. Call Tracy Keagle, 620-333-2477, or contact her via Facebook, for more information. REGISTER/RICHARD LUKEN

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USD 257 continues pursuit of vo-tech programs

By SUSAN LYNN The Iola Register

A program that provides area high school students classes in trades and technology is gaining steam, said Jack Koehn, USD 257 superintendent of schools, at Monday night’ Board of Education meeting.

Koehn said a possible site for such a program could be the Diebolt Lumber complex, south of LaHarpe, which went out of business earlier this year.

“It has a lot of things already in place,” Koehn said.

“It would be ideal for a career tech program, for building trades, welding, CNC applications.

“It was pretty eye-opening in terms of what we wouldn’t have to do,” he said of the existing structures.

Koehn said a meeting between area school district superintendents and administrators from Allen Community College and Fort Scott Community College will be Jan. 13.

The program is a concerted effort between high schools and community

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colleges. Funding comes through the community colleges through a provision in Senate Bill 155.

“We provide the students; they fund the operation,” Koehn said. “Community colleges are the hub of the whole thing.”

Area school officials have no further to look than Pittsburg for a successful model, Koehn said. Five area school districts take advantage of the career and technology program there.

Locally, Ray Maloney of Ray’s Welding, LaHarpe, has expressed a strong interest in such a program.

“Now all we need is a few benefactors to help purchase facilities,” Koehn said, adding that he hoped other industry and business leaders would get on board with the program.

Koehn said some programs could be relatively easy to get off the ground in short order.

“Depending on the equipment, some are relatively easy to start up. Cosmetology and welding could begin See VO-TECH | Page A6

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Iola school bands get boost

By SUSAN LYNN The Iola Register

The school district’s band program got a big boost Monday night with the gift of a semi-trailer to haul instruments to and from performances.

The Iola Rotary club purchased the used moving van for the band program.

Rotarian Bob Hawk pre-

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sented a $5,000 check to Matt Kleopfer, band director, at Monday night’s USD 257 board of education meeting.

The stipend represents the $3,500 that went toward the purchase of the van and another $1,500 for the band program.

Hawk said the relationship between Rotary and the high See BAND | Page A6

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Obituary Curtis Jeffers Curtis Leon Jeffers, 89, died of natural causes Dec. 11, 2015, in Lubbock, Texas.

He is survived by his son Steve (wife Kim), of Lubbock; his daughter Lori (husband Dan) of Knoxville, Md.; one sister, Virginia Coone, Ocala, Fla.; and various nieces and nephews. Mr. Jeffers also has three grand- Curtis Jeffers children and three greatgrandchildren. He is preceded in death by his wife, Louise, who died in September of this year; brothers Virgil, Wayne, Dail and Eddie; and sisters Catherine, Marguerite and Helen.

He was born in Iola on Aug. 4, 1926, to Maude (Kline) and Harry Dail Jeffers. Curtis was a veteran of WWII and the Korean conflict. He was awarded the Purple Heart and the Bronze Star. He loved his country and was proud to be a Marine. In November 1950 Curtis married Louise Hauer. When his military service ended, they moved to Wichita, ere they lived for 60 years. He worked at Boeing but after a time left this job to focus on his small repair business and several other business endeavors in which he was successful.

In 2010 they moved to Lubbock to be closer to their son. A graveside service is scheduled for 1 p.m.

Wednesday at Highland Cemetery in Iola. In lieu of flowers, contributions can be made to Woundedwarriorproject.org in honor of Curtis L. Jeffers.

Cheers for Kayla On Monday afternoon, a surprised Kayla Genoble was led into a gym full of students and teachers at Lincoln Elementary. The crowd cheered and applauded as Genoble and her family slowly made their way to the front of the auditorium. The third grader, who was diagnosed with bone cancer nearly two years ago, wore a Team Kayla sweatshirt and sat quietly while teachers and faculty recounted their memories of the “tough” young girl. After a few minutes, Kayla was asked to stand and join two representatives from the Make-A-Wish Foundation at the front of the stage. One of the women placed a tiara on Genoble’s head and informed her that they had arrived in Iola to grant her wish — they were sending her and her family to Disney World. The family leaves today for Orlando. REGISTER/RICK DANLEY

Police reports Search warrant leads to arrests Allen County sheriff ’s deputies said Katrina G. Kelley, 31, Iola, was arrested Sunday after officers conducted a search warrant at 318 S. Second St. Deputies said Kelley allegedly interfered with law enforcement after she was found hiding in what they described as a “secret room.”

Kelley also had an outstanding warrant related to the alleged possession of methamphetamine.

In related matters, deputies also said Paul M. Heslop, 36, Iola, was arrested for suspicion of obstructing the apprehension of a known felon (Kelley). John J. Morris, 63, Iola, also was arrested for allegedly interfering with law enforcement and obstructing officers in Kelley’s apprehension.

Arrests reported Woodson County sheriff ’s deputies arrested Echo Adams, 22, Yates Center, Monday on a warrant for failing to appear in court.

Mary J. West, Corpus

Christi, Texas, was arrested Saturday on a warrant out of Allen County District Court for failing to appear.

She also was wanted on a warrant out of Texas, deputies said.

Iola police officers arrested Hannah Brooks, 18, Topeka, for alleged possession of marijuana, expired license tags and failing to dim her headlights following a traffic stop Thursday in the 300 block of West Breckenridge Street.

Billy Haney, 34, Chanute, was arrested Dec. 8 for allegedly driving while intoxicated, driving while suspended, improper driving on a laned roadway and refusing a preliminary breath test during a traffic stop in the 1900 block of East Street.

William Funk, 51, Iola, was arrested Dec. 8 in the 700 block of North State Street for allegedly driving after being declared a habitual violator.

Shawn McCulley, 39, Iola, was arrested Dec. 7 for suspicion of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, possessing methamphetamine,

interfering with law enforcement and battery on a law enforcement officer after Iola police officers were called to a disturbance in the 200 block of North Second Street.

Driver cited after accident Allen County sheriff ’s deputies and Iola firefighters were called Dec. 8 to a traffic accident at the intersection of 1300 Street and Rhode Island Road. They found an abandoned vehicle that had failed to negotiate a curve, left the roadway, and struck a grassy embankment after rolling once.

The alleged driver, Christopher Cooper, Iola, was located three days later.

Deer hit Thomas Buckle, Colony, was southbound on U.S. 169, near the U.S. 54 intersection on the east edge of Iola, when he struck a deer Friday. He was not hurt.

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ing a suspect who they claim violated a protection order 114 times.

The information was handed over to the Allen County attorney’s office Thursday.

Tires stolen Iola police officers are investigating the theft of eight new tires from Iola Walmart Dec. 8, valued at $577. Three 17-inch Goodyear Eagle Authority, three 17-inch Goodyear Assurance Authority and two 16-inch Goodyear Assurance Authority tires were taken, officers said.

Solar lights taken Ethel Beckmon told Iola police officers Wednesday somebody stole several solar lights from her residence in the 300 block of South State Street.

License tag missing Richard Campbell, 70, Henderson, Texas, told Iola police officers Dec. 7 his license plate was missing. Officers said they were uncertain whether the plate was stolen or if it had been lost.

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fices have until noon June 1 to file in County Clerk Sherrie Riebel’s office. The general election is Nov. 8.

Zellner, 56, is a pastor and policeman.

For the past two years he has been with the Conway Springs Police Department where he is currently chief of police. Before that, he worked for the Humboldt Police Department.

He returns to Humboldt on weekends to minister at Restoration Fellowship Church, which he started in 2002.

He has a bachelor’s degree in human resource management and a master’s degree in counseling.

“I’ve been a resident of Allen County for 15 years,” Zellner told the Register.

He and wife Carolyn have two grown sons, Jerod, an em-

ployee at B&W Trailer Hitches, and Michael, whose problems with drugs largely were responsible for Zellner becoming involved with law enforcement.

Zellner said his son’s battle against drug abuse has given him valuable insight “to how kids become subjected to drugs.”

“We work hard on crime and drugs,” he said, of his commitments in Conway Springs. He thinks “animal control, traffic and serving (legal) papers take up too much in our county.”

If elected, he would focus on crime and drugs, Zellner asserted.

“I want the people of Allen County to feel safe.”

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See, Hear Iola set for Friday

City councilwoman ailing

Iolan Susan Hoffmeier will talk about quilting at Friday’s See, Hear Iola session.

Hoffmeier will discuss quilting ideas, and how they can be used for benefits. She also

Iola City Councilwoman Beverly Franklin remains hospitalized after undergoing openheart surgery, it was announced at Monday’s

will talk about cancer quilts.

Iola Police Chief Jared Warner also is scheduled to talk, as is Jessica Quinhones, who manages Around the Corner Coffee

Shop.

The 10 a.m. session at the New Community Building in Riverside Park is a week earlier than normal because of Christmas. The public is invited.

Council meeting.

Franklin, a retired bank officer, suffered what was described as a mild heart attack Wednesday.

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She is at the University of Kansas Medical Center in Kansas City, Kan. She’s been on the Council since 2011.

Budget: City’s low electric, water reserves cause concern Continued from A1

some big hits after the city paid for EPA-mandated upgrades to its controls and spent more than $200,000 to improve electric service for yetto-occur expansion at Gates Corporation. As it stands, the electric reserves are at 12.3 percent, much too tight for Slaugh’s comfort, especially since year-end transfers have yet to be made.

“It’s a very tight budget,” Slaugh said.

The city will transfer minimal amounts from the electric and gas reserves at the end of the month to close the city’s books on 2015. Slaugh said the goal is to retain about $1 million in the electric reserves to

ensure some cash flow early in 2016.

“We’ll take a little out of electric, a little out of wastewater and a little out of gas,” Slaugh said.

He also noted the Council should consider adding fuel cost adjustments to its water rates, much like Iola does for electricity and natural gas. Thus, if the cost to treat water rises because of higher raw material prices, that added cost is shifted to the customer, not the city.

Slaugh said he has visited with the city’s energy consultant and should have a proposal ready in January.

IN A (somewhat) related matter, Council members approved a

three-year agreement to purchase wind energy through Westar.

The agreement calls for the city to purchase 3 megawatts of power each month from a wind farm under construction near Pratt.

The wind farm should be online by the end of 2016, Slaugh said.

COUNCIL members also voted, 4-3, to pursue a federal Assistance to Firefighters Grant from the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

If successful, the feds will pay up to 95 percent, or $285,000 of the necessary $300,000 to buy a new pumper truck designed to fight rural fires.

The problem, according to the three opposed, was that the city has not budgeted funds for the city’s share if it were successful.

Council members Aaron Franklin, Bob

Shaughnessy and Austin Sigg were opposed.

Council members Don Becker, Nancy Ford, Jon Wells and Sandy Zornes were in favor. Councilwoman Beverly Franklin was absent.

“I just don’t see the harm in allowing them to apply for the grant,” Wells said.

Franklin said he also was opposed to the notion the city had to act quickly because the deadline to apply for the grant is Jan. 15.

“If we’re going to apply for a grant and the deadline is Jan. 15, could we get this information a little earlier?” he asked. “My second concern is we seem to throw around the term ‘rising maintenance costs’ as a cliché. I’d rather see documentation.”

COUNCIL members also: — Renewed 2016 cereal malt beverage licens-

es for Ray’s Mini Mart, 205 S. State St., Pete’s, 709 N. State St., Jump Start Travel Center, 1700 East St., Walmart, 2200 N. State St., and Casey’s General Store, 712 E. Madison Ave., to sell unopened containers. Onsite consumption will be allowed at Cedarbrook Golf Course, 2700 N. Cottonwood St., China Palace, 110 N. State St., Country Lanes, 2001 N. State St., Denny’s Sports Center, 18 E. Jackson Ave., Pizza Hut, 1612 N. State St., El Jimador, 902 N. State St., and Coronado’s, 1401 East St. — Approved a bid from Hampel Oil to provide diesel and gasoline for city vehicles for 2016.

Hampel’s bid, 7.2 cents per gallon above rack price gasoline and 7.6 cents per gallon above for diesel is slightly higher than a second bid from Le Roy Co-op.

Council members noted the difference in price

between the two bids — it’d be worth $140 if 25,000 gallons of gasoline and 40,000 gallons of diesel were consumed — made it more feasible to pick the local vendor.

— Agreed to purchase crushed rock from Nelson Quarries, Gas, for $8.50 a ton, the same price the city paid in 2015, and lower than what Iola paid in 2013 and 2014. Nelson’s bid was the only one received.

— Agreed to change the Oct. 10 and Dec. 26 meeting dates in 2016 because those dates fall on federal holidays, Columbus Day and Christmas. They’ll now be scheduled for Oct. 11 and Dec. 27. As an aside, Council members were reminded that there will be no second meeting this December — also Dec. 27 — because there won’t be enough Council members available for a meeting.

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But there was less consensus on whether a fullscale engineering study was needed for other potential projects, such as straightening the curve, removing a 4-foot retaining wall and lowering the grade on the southeast side of the curve, or changing U.S. 54 from a four-lane roadway to three or two lanes with bicycle corridors.

“The challenge is we just don’t have enough information,” Slaugh said. “If development goes in two stages, we re-

ally can’t start engineering work until we know how they’re going to propose the layout.”

David Toland, executive director of Thrive Allen County, told the Council G&W engineers are developing a site plan, and should be done shortly in order for construction to begin in April.

Councilman Jon Wells noted the curve has long been considered one of the most dangerous places in town for traffic.

“But I don’t think it’s as risky as it’s been said,” he added. “I don’t

know how much money to put” on altering the curve if it’s not necessary.

“I’d rather fix Kentucky Street than spend a bunch of money on U.S. 54,” he said.

Slaugh noted KDOT is under no obligation to fund any alterations to the curve. Thus, any project would be funded by the city, unless it was determined to be necessary to accommodate any development.

“Then the developer would be on the hook,” Slaugh said.

“An engineer’s study would take care of a lot of issues,” Councilman Donald Becker added.

“We could decide what kind of money we’re talking about.”

Toland noted the time constraints of ordering a full-scale engineer’s study, particularly since the Council will not meet a second time in December.

If the Council orders a study in January, and the study takes up to two months, it pushes the results almost back to the time when G&W and other developers are ready to start construction.

“Is there data that suggests the hospital curve is more dangerous than other areas with comparable car counts?” Toland asked.

Not yet, Councilwoman Nancy Ford replied.

She urged Slaugh to get the number of acci-

dents at the curve from Police Chief Jared Warner.

Councilman Aaron Franklin said a crossing light, similar to what is used to mark the Prairie Spirit Trail’s intersection with North State Street, would “take care of a lot of issues.”

Such a system would cost $50,000 or more, particularly if advance lights were necessary to the west and east to make a pedestrian crossing more visible.

Assistant City Administrator Corey Schinstock, meanwhile, noted the city would lose some KDOT funding if U.S. 54 were reduced from a four-lane corridor.

“We get paid per lane mile,” he noted.

Mayor Joel Wicoff said an engineer’s study needn’t take two months. “The more information we can give them, and the more clear we can be with what we want, the faster an engineer can respond. I think we can get this expedited.”

Franklin agreed, noting the curve study could be done independent of the private development nearby.

“We have to be careful,” Franklin said. “If we hurry, we may make mistakes. We have to be careful of delaying progress of the developers, but if it’s important to the city, we should pursue it.”

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Holidays don’t have to be a hazard to your health Kansas Sampler Fest to end after 2017 Joy Purkeypile

It is that glorious time of year again, six weeks of indulgence starting with Thanksgiving and ending with New Year’s.

Combine all the family meals, parties, celebrations, shopping, work and “I deserve a break” syndrome — and you have a recipe for holiday weight gain. Don’t fret, though, success can be yours while enjoying the holiday season.

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by staying consistent.

Enjoy the holidays, but don’t abandon the habits and dedication you have embraced for nearly the last 11 months.

Stay in the zone. Exercise and diet are as important as ever over the holidays, if not more so.

You will likely indulge in a few treats at a holiday party or family gathering and that is OK, but within moderation. Stay in your exercise, eating, and healthy habit zone

Give yourself a gift.

Stress can be the operative word around the holidays. When it comes to weight gain, stress can be a trigger biochemically. Stress triggers the production of cortisol, a stress hormone, and can lead to weight gain

among other health issues. Stress can “weigh you down,” making you more likely to curl up on the couch and eat ice cream. So give yourself some stress-relief by being physically active, indulging in a relaxing bath, or treating yourself to a massage or movie.

Take it step by step.

The quest for health and wellness is a day-by-day process. Use that same philosophy over the holidays to stay active.

Holiday shopping at the mall? Don’t drive around attempting to find an open parking space up front when you can get some exercise by parking farther away. Family in town? Catch up on

old times while taking a nature hike or walking around town.

You are in control — stay strong and stay healthy this holiday season. You deserve it. After all, your New Year’s resolutions should never again be “Lose the weight I regained over the holidays.”

Visit the Southwind website (www.southwind.ksu.edu) Health and Nutrition section for the fact sheet Emotional Appetite: The Food and Mood Connection; Dining on a Dime and You Asked It newsletters; and look for Walk Kansas Health Challenge and Strong People Healthy People Strength Training Programs coming in 2016.

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do everything we can do to make sure we have community input, we just want to see what they think we should do.”

“We don’t utilize it as a district, explained Superintendent Kay Lewis at the board meeting Monday. “It’s time to go to the community to see what their vision is for it, what ideas they have.

Maybe someone would like to purchase it, and do something really great for the community with it.”

The district, previously, has offered to sell the facility either to the City of Humboldt or the recreation department for one dollar. Whether because of the necessary upkeep (mowing, mostly) or the liability insurance that such a facility requires, both entities have declined the purchase.

“It’s a historic place, and I know that it’s dear to several parts of the community,” said Lewis.

“We as a board need to

IN OTHER news, State Board of Education member Jim Porter delivered a PowerPoint lecture highlighting the range of educational goals being discussed at the state level. Without ever alighting on specifics, Porter’s scattershot talk emphasized everything from the importance of “kindergarten readiness” to college retention rates, while circling continually around a single vaporous phrase, which he referred to as the state board’s “vision”: “Kansas leads the world in the success of each student.”

For a more practical agenda for success, Porter needed only look

to the five posters decorating the walls at the board office, contents of which spell out the USD 258’s hard-won 2016-2021 strategic plan.

“Actually,” said Porter, noticing, toward the end of his lecture, the detailed district goals emblazoned in black and orange to his left, “it looks like you guys are already there. I commend you for your work.

Right now, I’m wasting your time.”

Perhaps a more necessary PowerPoint presentation, then, was provided by sophomore Lizzy Myers, who urged the district to consider implementing a student mentor program in coordination with Humboldt’s SADD chapter.

The board congratulated Myers’ hard work and vowed to make use of her ideas in the coming months.

The board met in closed-door session for 40 minutes. Returning to the table they approved the resignations, effective at school year’s end, of second-grade teacher Wendy Weilert and middle school custodian Clifford Stephens.

Earlier in the night, Dillon Aikins briefed the board on an internship he recently earned with Crossland Construction.

Aikins was among 130 students selected from a field of 3,000. During the rigorous interview process, Aikins was praised by recruiters for his excellent “construction background,” which the senior attributes to the training he received while a member of Humboldt’s building trades program.

tial “ISIS sympathizer.”

What he didn’t see, however, was the illuminated plastic Santa Claus placed atop the deck that appeared to be urinating on the word ISIS via a strand of white lights.

“He probably should’ve used yellow lights” for Santa’s urine, King said. “But he used white lights.

You couldn’t really distinguish what Santa was doing.”

King says no laws were broken and the homeowner will rearrange the lights to “clear up any doubts about his message.”

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Kansas Sampler Foundation Director Marci Penner said this week the ending is not because of dwindling interest. Last year’s festival in Wamego drew a record attendance of 12,000 and had so many exhibitors that some had to be turned away, The Hutchinson News reported.

“The festival is on an upswing, it is strong,” Penner said. “We are coming at this decision from a point of strength — use the festival as a springboard into the next idea — to promote what to see and do in the state.”

Penner, Assistant Director WenDee LaPlant and the foundation board are still considering possibilities for

that I believe we can come up with a more active way to get people to see what we have to do in this state,” Penner said.

The festival began in 1990 when the late Mil Penner and his daughter, Marci, held a book-signing party on the family farm near Inman, along with promoters of about 30 places included in the new Kansas Weekend Guide.

“It snowed, it sleeted, we didn’t know what we were doing,” said Penner. “But a thousand people came to the farm that day. We thought ‘wow —maybe this is telling us something. People are interested, and they want to know what there is to see and do in the state.’”

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NWK tornadoes tell climate story Naysayers like to hold up chilly days during warm weather months as proof that climate change is hooey.

Most scientists — trained to observe and analyze before reaching conclusions — think to the contrary and one weather pattern in Kansas this year may be tallied to their side of the ledger.

Kansas had more tornadoes this year than normal.

Fifteen touched down during November alone.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Storm Prediction Center reported the stretch was the first time in more than 50 years that tornadoes had landed in northwest Kansas that late in the year.

While more tornadoes than is usual isn’t good news — nationwide 1,150 occurred the first 10

months of 2015, 179 more than normal — it is good news that many were not behemoths that ripped across the country and caused great damage and loss of life.

Dodge City and Montezuma, in southwest Kansas, led a charmed life in November. An EF-3, with winds in excess of 155 mph, was on the ground for 50 minutes, headed directly toward Dodge City. Instead, it veered in the direction of Montezuma, a town of about 1,000, lifting up just in the nick of time.

That November recorded tornadoes is significant in relation to climate change.

They are the result of supercell thunderstorms, an ingredient of which is warm air. November is rarely warm enough in Kansas to spur such activity — until now.

— Bob Johnson

Legislators should grasp need to avoid lobbying A prominent Kansas lawmaker’s interest in a new job understandably raised eyebrows.

Ultraconservative Rep. Steve Brunk of Wichita recently was named the choice to become executive director of the Kansas Family Policy Council, an advocacy group that strongly opposes abortion and same-sex marriage.

Ideology aside, the problem would be in Brunk — currently chairman of the House Federal and State Affairs Committee, which considers topics ranging from abortion to guns — continuing as a lawmaker while promoting the Council’s interests.

Kansas law prohibits state lawmakers from serving as lobbyists, and for good reason. Lawmakers should not be paid by their employers to promote legislation.

Yet Brunk actually said: “One of the things that they want to do is impact legislation and so how better to do that than to have the person who handles all of that legislation actually be in the Legislature and actually be chairman of the committee?”

Would he also endorse the leader of the Kansas National Education Association, which lobbies for public schools — constant targets of Brunk’s ultraconservative alliance — chairing an educationrelated committee?

No, nor should he.

If Brunk takes the job, he should resign his House seat. Ideally, he’d also face a “cooling off ” period that restricts how soon someone may work as a lobbyist after serving as a legislator.

That’s the law in most states. Yet in Kansas, it’s only becoming more difficult to tell lobbyists from policymakers.

Consider current Kansas Chamber president and CEO Mike O’Neal, a former House speaker.

As a legislator, O’Neal pushed through the reckless income-tax breaks of 2012 that gutted the state budget and led to damaging cuts to vital state services.

His influence on legislators and policymaking didn’t wane when he left the Legislature soon after to become Kansas Chamber chief.

O’Neal, Brunk and fellow ultraconservatives bullied their way to the tax and other extremist policies crafted by the American Legislative Exchange Council, a corporate bill mill that gathers lobbyists and legislators behind closed doors to work on Statehouse agendas.

Brunk suggesting he could remain a legislator and be paid by a special-interest group to further that cause proved ALEC followers would go to any length to radically change Kansas — and not for the better.

— Garden City Telegram

Iowa’s Medicaid scheme struggling Dana Milbank

WASHINGTON — On Jan. 1, 30 days before Iowa caucusgoers cast the first votes of the 2016 presidential race, the state will gain another national distinction, but of Washington a dubious variety: It plans to Post launch the most sweeping and Writers Group radical privatization of Medaddition, WellCare had paid icaid ever attempted.

In an extraordinary social $138 million to resolve claims policy experiment, Iowa’s Re- that it overbilled Medicare publican Gov. Terry Branstad and Medicaid.

The Des Moines Register is kicking about 560,000 of the state’s poorest residents out has reported that the four of the traditional Medicaid companies selected to operate health care program for the the Iowa program have had poor and forcing virtually all more than 1,500 regulatory of them to sign up with pri- sanctions combined and have vate insurers. The trend to- paid $10.2 million in fines ward managed-care for Med- over the last five years. These icaid has been underway for involved canceled appointdecades and some 39 states do ments, privacy breaches, unit to some extent. But experts timely processing and failure inside and outside govern- to obtain informed consent.

The Iowa rollout has been ment say no state has tried to make such a wholesale hampered by delays, and some change so quickly — in Iowa’s beneficiaries of the program case, launching the program are only now getting their fewer than 90 days after sign- enrollment packets, though ing contracts with private the deadline for signing up is Dec. 17. Health care providers health care companies.

Iowa is conducting an ex- complain that they are betreme test of a familiar prem- ing forced to sign incomplete ise of free-market conserva- contracts or face a penalty, tism: that the private sector is and that some contracts don’t more efficient at management cover services that had been and service delivery than gov- covered under the existing ernment. But the results so Medicaid program.

Branstad’s administrafar should give pause to those who automatically make such tion has answered critics by assumptions. The transition saying the new program will of Iowa’s $4.2 billion Medic- save $51 million in its first aid program has made the six months. But he has been rollout of HealthCare.gov unable to come up with documentation to justify the cost look orderly.

An Iowa administrative savings.

Branstad had the authorlaw judge late last month recommended that Iowa throw ity to implement the new proout the contract it awarded gram without input from the to WellCare, one of the four state Legislature. But officials companies hired to manage with the Centers for Medicare the new program, noting that and Medicaid Services were the company failed to dis- in Iowa last week and will close details of its “integrity make a ruling soon on whethagreement” with the federal er the plan can proceed.

“The rollout has been an government after the 2014 convictions of three former absolute unmitigated disasexecutives involving the mis- ter,” alleges Democratic Sen. use of Medicaid money. In Joe Bolkcom, the chamber’s

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majority whip. “CMS and the Obama administration need to protect vulnerable Iowans from this train wreck.”

Branstad has implicitly acknowledged some difficulty.

Last week he extended until April the “safe-harbor” in which Medicaid providers will receive 100 percent reimbursement regardless of managed-care network.

In response to my inquiry, Branstad’s office sent me to the state’s Department of Human Services, where a spokeswoman, Amy Lorentzen McCoy, said all is well. The state, which now has 12 percent of Medicaid recipients in managed care, would have gone this way anyway, she said, but the urgency increased with the recent Medicaid expansion (Branstad was one of the few Republican governors to accept the Obamacare expansion of the program).

As the nation’s attention turns to the Iowa caucuses, Iowans will likely be witnessing either a fight between Branstad and Obama (if the federal government forces a delay in the Iowa program) or chaos (if the program is allowed to proceed). Other states, such as Kansas and Kentucky, have tried similar experiments, but they either moved more deliberately or didn’t extend the private program to vulnerable populations such as the disabled.

“A lot of issues have been raised with the pace of the rollout” in Iowa, said Julia Paradise, a Medicaid expert with the Kaiser Family Foundation. “The provider networks for the plans have not yet been established. There’s a lot of confusion among beneficiaries.”

Branstad could recognize this, and slow things down. In failing to do so, he’s relying more on dogma — faith that the private sector always does things better — than reality.

Richard Chase, retired assistant superintendent of USD 257, told Rotarians that Iola got a bargain in the construction of a recreational center.

The outdoor facility, a block northeast of the high school, includes four tennis courts, three basketball courts, two softball diamonds and space for touch football, soccer, field hockey and similar activities.

A concrete walking path was constructed around the area.

Chase praised Larry Macha, owner-manager of Se-Kan

Asphalt and general contractor for the project, for quality construction and a donation of fill-dirt and $5,000. ***** Blockbuster Video, the nation’s largest home video rental and sales chain, opened its doors in Iola Wednesday. ***** Hoping to help ease the pain of the loss of “Calvin and Hobbes,” the Register today adds “Baby Blues” to its comic pages. *****

Willard Horde, veteran Iola builder and businessman,

died Sunday after a prolonged illness. He was 76. ***** Dr. Songyoth Sakdisri, obstetrics and gynecology specialist, or Dr. Song, as he is called by colleagues and patients, started work Dec. 1 in the Allen County Medical Arts Building. *****

American Family Insurance agents Ken Rowe and Kyle McCollam will have an open house Thursday at their new office at 11 E. Madison.

The office formerly was at 105 W. Madison.

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and when the opportunity presents itself. “We all need to be on the same page,� he said, and that officers will respond as quickly as possible but can’t arrive immediately.

Dillow will meet with school staff on Jan. 4 to give those not in central offices his take on what should be done to prevent tragedy. “And we’ll do more,� with drills and information the remainder of the school year, he said. “It’s kind of like fire drills. We have them all the time in schools and we’ve never had a fire.

But, we need to be prepared and know what to do.�

To further Dillow’s professional training, council members gave unanimous approval for him to attend Law Enforcement Leadership

Academy Command School at the Law Enforcement Academy at Hutchinson.

Cost will be $3,400, and will have Dillow involved in 300 hours of instruction. He will spend a week at the academy in January, and then two consecutive days each month through November. “I’m required to have 40 hours of training each year,� he noted.

The training will fulfill his obligations for 2016 and 2017.

Council members also voted to purchase an Asphalt Zipper, a device that grinds hardsurfaced roads during improvements.

The preferred model will cost $91,990 and will be acquired through a five-year lease-purchase agreement. Community National Bank had the best of three loan bids at 1.92 percent.

Council adopted a resolution for the city to enroll in the Neighborhood Revitalization Program for three years.

The NRP will start Feb. 1, provided council members still are agreeable after a public hearing at their Jan. 11 meeting. The program provides property tax rebates for improvements and new construction for residential, commercial and industrial properties.

All of Humboldt will be in the program.

Mechanics are for a property owner to receive an annual 95 percent property tax rebate

— Allen County keeps 5 percent for management — for projects of $5,000 or more for six years. Then, the rebates decrease by 20 percent a year until the property is fully taxed in the 11th year. Application must be made ahead of a project.

IN OTHER NEWS:

— Retiring volunteer firefighers Kent Barfoot, the department’s chief, and Chris Ellsworth were honored. Together they have had 50 years of service, including 29

by Barfoot. — In a touching ceremony, Harvey Peck, not-

ed Humboldt artist, was commended for producing the mural that covers the back wall of the community room in the basement of City Hall, where council meetings are each month. — Following a 10-minute executive session, City Administrator Cole Herder was given

permission to pursue purchase of property, which will be identified when council members consider its acquisition on Jan. 11. — Herder will look into a fiber franchise agreement with Kansas Fiber Network, and perhaps make a recommendation later.

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school’s band program went back to 1936 when Rotary’s boys band program merged with the school’s to form The Marching Mustangs.

Hawk said Rotary raised the funds from a combination of its paper drive to recycle used newspapers and magazines and its

Smokin’ Hot Car and Barbecue show. “Iola has been very good to the Rotary club,� Hawk said of the support for its programs.

He also extended credit to Kleopfer. “It’s not about the music, but about what he has been able to do with the students,� he said.

Vo-tech: Progress

THE FOOTBALL field in Riverside Park is coming along to schedule, Scott Stanley, director of operations, said.

A machine called a Shattertine was used to wedge six-inch deep holes across the field.

From there, 150 tons six semi-truckloads - of sand was spread, followed by 600 lbs. of a fescue blend of grass seed. “The process is complete,� Stanley said, “and we’ll aerate in the spring to push more of that sand into the soil, followed by fertilizer.

Then we’ll repeat in the fall after football. “This is a three-year process. It won’t turn into Arrowhead overnight,� he said.

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strategic planning on how to make education more engaging included students at a recent session, Koehn said. An across-the-board segment of the student body, including freshmen to seniors, jocks to scholars, academic to vocationally minded, met with Koehn and Iola

High School principal Stacy Fager.

The focus group discussed what they thought was important to “move the district forward,� Koehn said. “The discussions were very positive,�

Koehn said.

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as early as next year. “You could start on a small scale, and build as you go. “If you were building custom homes on iron, to be transported later, that would take longer to develop. But it’s all possible in the long run.�

The program would not only provide students with a more varied education, but also help provide a more highly trained workforce for area industries.

When surveyed, area students professed a strong interest in the program, Koehn said.

MEMBERS

declined to participate in a promotional video the City of Iola has contracted with a company called CGI Communications out of Rochester, N.Y. Cost was the deciding factor.

Koehn said a 60-second segment would cost the district $4,000; a 30-second segment, $3,000; and for a lesser amount no video, but mention of the district.

The video would be posted on the City of Iola’s website.

Instead, board members liked the idea students could produce a video with assistance from the Greenbush Learning Center.

Koehn estimated the cost down that avenue would be $500-$750. “I like the idea of challenging our own kids to make something of the sort,� said Tony Leavitt, board president. “And you’re not burning up a bunch of money,� added Buck Quincy, board member.

AFTER executive session, the board accepted the resignations of John Perez, custodian, Mary Heffern, high school substitute teacher, and Larry Wilson, assistant track coach.

Board member Darrell Catron was absent.

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HMS boys results CANEY VALLEY — The Humboldt Middle School boys basketball team had all three of its squads (A, B and C) in action Monday against Caney Valley.

The Cubs’ A team lost, 4619. Conor Haviland finished the game with 8 points and 5 rebounds. Gunner Elder was the team’s second-leading scorer with 3 points while also adding 2 steals.

And Cooper Jaro, Josh Hull and Jackson Aikins all recorded 2 points.

The A team is now 1-2 on the year.

“Caney Valley is a very good team,” said coach Jeremy Weilert. “They are big and physical. They work their offense until a good shot is available. They are also very good in transition. We didn’t do enough to help ourselves out. We hurried shots and made some ill-advised passes. We will continue to get better.”

HMS girls results

Deacon Perkins (0)

Kassie Beggs (10)

MVJH BASKETBALL The Marmaton Valley Junior High boys and girls basketball teams hosted JayhawkLinn on Monday.

Kaylee Becker (12)

See CUBS | Page B4

Garrett Henderson (11)

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CANEY VALLEY — The Humboldt Middle School girls basketball team had both of its squads (A and B) in action Monday against Caney Valley.

The Lady Cubs’ A team won, 32-9. Maddie Gean led the squad with 15 points while also adding a teamhigh 8 steals. Winter Snyder had 8 points, 6 steals and a team-high 9 rebounds.

Emma Johnson finished the game with 5 points and 5 steals while her sister, Alayna, finished with 4 points and 7 rebounds. Bailey Goodell rounded out the scoring with 2 points while also adding 4 steals.

The A team improved to 3-0 after the victory on Monday night.

“The girls came out and played well in the first quarter, which helped them relax a little and just play our game,” coach Scott Brady said. “Bailey Goodell See LADY CUBS | Page B4

WSU considering football WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — The complete review of the Wichita State University athletics department is underway and one of the many subjects is whether to resume a football program, president John Bardo said.

Bardo and deputy athletic director Darron Boatright are in the early stages of the department review and decisions about its future could take up to a year, The Wichita Eagle reported. Besides the football question, other topics will include conference affiliation, other sports and facilities.

“Everything is on the table,” Bardo said. “The sports we offer, facilities, confer-

Everything is on the table. The sports we offer, facilities, conferences. This is about the university, and its ability to support the community and support our students.

— WSU President John Bardo

ences. This is about the university, and its ability to support the community and support our students.”

Bardo, Wichita State president since 2012, sees athletics as a tool to help his priorities of improving student life and helping Wichita’s growth and prosperity.

He said the fall months are crucial for making a good

impression on students and athletics might help.

“Maybe football’s an answer, maybe soccer’s an answer,” he said. “This is not about football. This is about who we are and what we can do.”

The university dropped football after the 1986 seaSee WSU | Page B3

Kansas teammates Wayne Selden, left, and Devonte’ Graham celebrate Saturday. RICH SUGG/KANSAS CITY STAR/TNS

Kansas trying to tread in deep end LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — The biggest problem facing Kansas coach Bill Self these days may be precisely the opposite problem faced by every other college basketball coach in the country.

He has too much depth.

OK, so it’s not really a problem. More like a challenge.

Self acknowledges he always prefers to have an abundance of talented players at his disposal. It sure beats looking down an empty bench in the late minutes of a crucial game and throwing his hands up in exasperation.

But as the second-ranked Jayhawks grind toward the start of Big 12 play, Self is also reaching a point where he must decide which of his dozen-plus guys give him the best chance of winning.

“What I’m as excited about as anything is for me to figure out how to play and how to sub, because to be candid with you, it varies game to game,” Self explained. “Because guys can get in better rhythm and I can help them to do that going forward.”

But at the same time, Self said, “it’s kind of frustrating not knowing what to do.”

There have been games this season when Kansas (8-1) has

spread minutes evenly among 10 or more guys, each one producing. Then there have been games like Saturday night, when the starters were playing so well that Self left them in almost the entire second half of an 82-67 victory over Oregon State.

Frank Mason III wound up playing 38 minutes. Wayne Selden played 36. Devonte Graham logged 35. Perry Ellis played 31. And the fifth spot was shared by Hunter Mickelson and Carlton Bragg, with nobody else on that uber-deep roster playing more than seven minutes.

Not even Cheick Diallo, a potential NBA lottery pick.

Yes, the starters played great, and that’s a big reason why Self insisted that he left the same group in during the comeback win. But just as importantly, the second-team guys played poorly.

“I think he was just happy with how we played the second half, especially us three,” said Graham, flanked by Mason and Selden. “We just kept the same energy from start to finish. We were happy the way we pressure the ball and still had energy to make plays See KU | Page B4

Kansas City Chiefs linebacker Dee Ford (55) pulls down San Diego Chargers quarterback Philip Rivers (17) on Sunday at Arrowhead Stadium. DAVID EULITT/KANSAS CITY STAR/TNS

Ford proves he is no draft bust KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Chiefs general manager John Dorsey likes to say that it takes two years minimum, and often three or more, to determine whether a draft choice was a success or failure.

Good thing for Dee Ford.

After a rookie season in which he barely got onto the field, the young pass rusher finally showed Sunday why Dorsey made him a first-round pick. In place of injured All-Pro Justin Houston, Ford racked up three sacks of Chargers quarterback Philip Rivers, then blanketed running back Danny Woodhead on the final play of the game to force an incompletion and

Once you experience and you get to your first sack, then there comes the second one, there comes the third.

— Dee Ford Chiefs linebacker

preserve a 10-3 victory.

“There are going to be some things he needs to work on coming out of it,” Chiefs coach Andy Reid said, “but at the same time, he was off the ball fast. I thought he did a heck of a job.”

In fact, he did a Houstonlike job.

The first multi-sack game of Ford’s career was also the first time a Kansas City player had three or more in a game since Houston, out with a hyperextended knee, had four against San Diego last year.

“You start to get a feel of the game — and I spoke on that a lot — once you experience and you get to your first sack, then there comes the second one, there comes the third,” Ford said. “You just have to really be aware of that scenario and really take advantage of it.”

Few outside the Southeastern Conference knew See CHIEFS | Page B3

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Carter’s trip aims to fortify ISIS fight INCIRLIK AIR BASE, Turkey (AP) — Defense Secretary Ash Carter said the U.S. wants Turkey to better control its border with Syria, which could help block the flow of foreign fighters to the Islamic State, and to more forcefully join the U.S.-led coalition “in the air and on the ground.”

Carter was in Turkey today, saying he is looking for new ways the U.S.-led coalition can strengthen its fight against Islamic State militants in Iraq and Syria.

Carter said he will be asking his military commanders and other officials to come up with new tactics that can be used to attack IS, and identify new contributions that coalition partners can make to accelerate the destruction of the insurgent group.

Carter and other U.S. and coalition leaders have recently been claiming progress in the fight, saying the Islamic State group is on the defensive and losing some ground.

But progress to retake key Iraq cities, such as Ramadi and Mosul, has been slow. In recent days, Iraqi forces backed by coalition airstrikes have been able to largely encircle Ramadi, but officials say they can’t estimate how long it may take to oust IS from the city.

Carter has written letters to various members of the coalition asking for additional support for the Islamic State fight, and in many cases spelling out what each country may be able to do.

He said the U.S. would particularly like to see the Gulf countries do more.

Group looks to Montana for Medicaid model

By ANDY MARSO KHI News Service

Two leaders of Montana’s successful Medicaid expansion movement told Kansas expansion advocates Monday that persistence, organization and discretion were keys to getting it done in their state.

Dozens of people who represent Kansas groups that favor Medicaid expansion gathered in Topeka to hear from Kim Abbott of the Montana Human Rights Network and Tara Jensen of the Montana Budget and Policy Center.

The pair said that when the broad-based coalition started its push for expansion in 2013, few people thought it would happen. But before the end of the Montana legislative session that year, the coalition moved a compromise plan to the floor that failed by only one vote.

“It really got people’s attention in the state,” Abbott said.

It took two more years, but last month Montana became the 30th state to expand Medicaid, opting for a revised plan that provides access to private insurance, offers job training assistance and requires some cost-sharing, like premiums and co-pays.

Monday’s event was hosted by the Sunflower Foundation, a nonprofit focused on improving the health of Kansans.

The foundation is one of six members of the Kansas Grantmakers in Health, which last week released a report indicating Medicaid expansion would pay for itself in the state.

Billie Hall, the foundation’s president and CEO, said the Kansas advocates are where the Montana advocates were in 2013 — getting organized and hashing out what core principles must be included in any Medicaid expansion plan.

“We have just started modeling a community campaign along the lines of Montana, but we have not had the amount of time they’ve had,” Hall said. “But I feel very positive about it.

Because from what we can tell, most Kansans, when you have a little information, understand the importance of Medicaid expansion.”

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Like Kansas, the Montana Legislature is controlled by conservative Republicans resistant to expanding Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act, which is commonly called Obamacare.

But Montana has a Democrat governor, Steve Bullock, who

pushed publicly for expansion. Abbott said that was a big help.

In Kansas, Republican Gov. Sam Brownback opposes expansion as part of Obamacare.

Montana also had a budget surplus, while Kansas is facing a financial hole of more than $100 million for the second straight year. After next year states will have to start picking up a percentage of the tab for expansion, which is currently funded entirely by the federal government.

conversations about those legislators came in closed meetings, and those discussions were confidential.

Rural hospitals

Some of the Montana coalition’s experiences were directly applicable to Kansas. Rural hospitals in both states face financial woes that could be eased by Medicaid expansion.

Abbott and Jensen said their coalition urged Montana hospital administrators to speak with their legislators

[L]ast month Montana became the 30th state to expand Medicaid, opting for a revised plan that provides access to private insurance, offers job training assistance and requires some cost-sharing, like premiums and co-pays.

“It’s important to flag what’s similar and what’s different (between the two states),” Abbott said.

But she and Jensen both said there were lessons Kansas advocates could take from Montana.

One was to bring expansion advocates together in an organized way. The failed 2013 vote turned out to be a blessing in disguise, Jensen said, because it forced the Montana advocates to coalesce around a set of concepts rather than take opposing stances on elements such as premiums and co-pays.

“We knew that our dream legislation, for all of us, was not going to happen,” Jensen said.

“We did not have the votes at all, so you have to get to a place where you all agree. … We needed to show a collective unified force, so the votes we needed could be a collective, unified force.”

The Montana groups shared funding and coordinated messaging.

Persistence also was a key, Abbott said. The coalition met within a week of every legislative defeat or setback and kept the pressure on legislators both at the Capitol and in their districts.

They also were careful about how they deployed their resources, focusing on a core group of “targets” in the Legislature that they thought could be moved to vote for their side.

And they did not lobby the conservative leaders.

“We weren’t moving them,” Jensen said.

“They were never moving.”

Abbott said the coalition focused on 19 legislators in the Montana House and nine in the Senate. Coalition

privately about financial struggles if they weren’t willing to air them publicly.

The Montana coalition also faced resistance from a group of legislators who argued that Medicaid’s medical coverage should not be expanded until support services are funded for disabled Kansans on waiting lists.

The Brownback administration has made the same argument.

Abbott said a group called Disability Rights Montana countered that argument, which frequently came from legislators not previously concerned about the waiting lists.

“Those guys and a couple other groups really took the lead on saying, publicly, ‘Yes this (waiting list) needs to be addressed, absolutely this needs to be addressed, here’s how we address this, but don’t you dare say we can’t do this (Medicaid expansion) — that is a distraction,’” Abbott said.

Abbott and Jensen also said getting uninsured Montanans to share their stories publicly was important. The Montana coalition estimated that about 70,000 people could gain coverage through expansion there.

In Kansas, an estimated 150,000 people would gain coverage if eligibility is expanded to nondisabled adults earning up to 138 percent of the federal poverty line, which is annually $16,105 for an individual and $32,913 for a family of four.

The Kansas coalition hosted a forum last month in Wichita on an Indiana Medicaid expansion plan that gained approval from a Republican governor and GOP majorities in the Indiana Legislature.

Kansas woman gets 20-year sentence for Missouri killing

Wichita police await funds for body-cam effort

ST. JOSEPH, Mo. (AP) — A Kansas woman has been sentenced to 20 years in prison in the stabbing death of a man whose body was found in a northwest Missouri river.

Kelli Hoard, 44, of Elwood, was sentenced Monday for the death

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Wichita’s interim police chief says his department won’t be able to equip every field officer with a body camera as planned by the end of this year because federal funding isn’t yet available for it.

of 28-year-old Richard Berry. Hoard, also known as Kelli Reeves, was among three people charged in the killing.

A probable cause statement alleges Hoard stabbed the victim with a knife, while the two men pinned Berry to the ground.

Nelson Mosley says in a statement that he expects the $250,000 in federal matching funds to be available next month.

The department already has bought and put to use 212 body cameras, with plans to buy a total of 429.

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son, citing budget problems, community apathy and poor attendance. Reviving the program was last seriously discussed in 1998, when a commit-

tee recommended starting a program again but large corporations and prospective major donors recommended that the school concentrate on basketball and baseball.

A football program would require millions in facilities, including a new stadium, and might require adding women’s sports under Title IX. Bardo said the football question has been

“lingering way too long” at Wichita State.

“We need to be very straight on, ‘Here’s what it takes to do it, here’s what it means, here’s what others are doing.’

And if people say, ‘Yeah,

that’s what we want to do,’ that’s great. If people say ‘We have no interest in that, we’re not willing to support it,’ then we know the answer,” he said.

Wichita State’s ath-

letics budget is around $18 million and Bardo estimates adding football that would be competitive at the highest levels would cost an additional $13 million.

Giants forge 1st-place tie by defeating Dolphins Chiefs: MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. (AP) — Killing time hours before kickoff at the New York Giants’ hotel, Eli Manning plotted a play he wanted to try against the Miami Dolphins.

It worked better than he ever imagined. With the game tied in the fourth quarter, Odell Beckham Jr. slipped 5 yards behind the secondary to score the goahead 84-yard touchdown, and the Giants forged a three-way tie atop the NFC East by beating Miami 31-24 Monday night.

Beckham gave Manning credit for cooking up the pivotal play.

“It was something he saw when he watched film,” Beckham said.

“His mind is different.

It’s special to be able to see something like that. It was something we hadn’t practiced and was completely on the fly.”

Here are things to know about the Giants’ first visit to Miami since 1996: THE STANDINGS: The Giants (6-7) broke a three-game losing

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“It’s a must-win, a playoff game for us,” Beckham said. “They’re all playoff games.”

The Giants’ next game is indeed a biggie: They play host to NFC South champion Carolina (13-0) on Sunday.

The Dolphins (5-8) were mathematically eliminated from the

playoff race, extending their postseason drought to a franchiserecord seven consecutive years.

“Obviously this is not where we want to be,” quarterback Ryan Tannehill said, “but here we are.”

GOING DEEP: Beckham’s long touchdown catch put the Giants ahead to stay with 11 minutes to go.

Cornerback Jamar

Taylor and seldom-used safety Shamiel Gary were the closest defenders, but Manning hit Beckham in stride at midfield and he sprinted to the end zone for his 12th TD this year.

“We thought it would be a big play,” Manning said, “but I didn’t think he would be that open.”

Miami safety Reshad Jones blamed miscommunication.

“The corner was sup-

posed to follow up and go over the top,” Jones said, “which he didn’t.”

OTHER ODELL: Beckham had seven catches for 166 yards and the game’s final two scores. The 100-yard game was his sixth in a row, a Giants record.

“They got it to a star player, and he made plays for them,” Dolphins defensive tackle Ndamukong Suh said.

Beckham missed one series when he went to the locker room due to cramps in both calves, but didn’t let that slow him down. He outplayed his close friend and former LSU teammate, Miami’s Jarvis Landry, who had 11 catches for 99 yards.

Beckham made a 45yard reception to set up a touchdown and had a 6-yard scoring catch. His final reception, a diving grab on third down at midfield, sealed the victory with less than 2 minutes left.

“Obviously his performance is something we all expect,” Landry said. “He’s just continuing to do what he does.”

Bulls use 2nd half surge for 115-96 rout of 76ers CHICAGO (AP) — Trailing to a team with just one win this season, the Chicago Bulls used the halftime break to identify the reason — their defense.

Jimmy Butler had 23 points and the Bulls rallied from a five-point deficit for a 115-96 rout of the lowly Philadelphia 76ers on Monday night.

“That was the main focus in the second half — just to guard,” Butler said.

“You can’t look at their record and think they’re not a good team, because they are.

But if we focus on the way we have to play on both ends, we can win games.”

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After trailing 56-51 at the intermission, the Bulls had a 64-40 advantage in the second half.

The 76ers drop to 1-25 and remain winless through 15 road games. Rookie Jahlil Okafor had 22 points in his first game as a professional in his hometown.

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Okafor had eight points on 4-of-4 shooting in the second quarter and had 16 points in 16 first-half minutes.

Philadelphia scored 37 points in the second on 16-of-25 (64 percent) shooting.

“In the second quarter, we did not put any pressure on them,” Bulls coach Fred Hoiberg said. “They went anywhere they wanted on the floor and they were comfortable. We were not helping. It was a very poor defensive quarter for us.”

Chicago, though, quickly dashed hopes

for an upset early in the third quarter. The Bulls dialed up the intensity and made Philadelphia look like a onewin team.

After committing just two turnovers in the first half, the Sixers had six in the first 6:34 of the third quarter.

By then, the Bulls had claimed a 69-62 advantage and things only got worse for Philadelphia.

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“It’s reflective of when you get to real NBA basketball and closing out a game,” Sixers coach Brent Brown said. “We had had a good second period and you knew they were going to come out of the locker room like they did.

“The young guys need to learn how to get through that. It’s a 48-minute game.”

Snell led the Bulls with 12 points on 4-of-5 shooting in the third.

Okafor was limited to two points.

Besides seven turnovers in the quarter, the Sixers were just 5 for 21 (23.8 percent) from the field.

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76ers: C Nerlens Noel missed the game with a corneal abrasion of the left eye suffered on Sunday at Toronto.

“It’s not as significant as we guessed,” coach Brent Brown said. “We don’t expect him to play in Atlanta. We’ll learn more about that.

Evidently you learn more after 24 hours and it hasn’t been that yet.”

Bulls: Derrick Rose played despite feeling ill and had six points in 26 minutes. Hoiberg said he considered having Rose sit out the second half, but Rose played roughly 9 minutes.

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much about Ford when he was chosen out of Auburn two years ago.

He was a solid but unspectacular pass rusher with questionable coverage skills who, most of the draft pundits said, was a reach to go in the first round to Kansas City.

Especially when the Chiefs already had Houston and Tamba Hali.

But Dorsey grew up in the Ron Wolfe school of draft philosophy, and that means taking the best player available regardless of position. It’s why Dorsey, a former Packers executive, helped take Aaron Rodgers in the first round in Green Bay with Brett Favre already under center.

So when Ford was still on the board when it came time for the Chiefs to draft, Dorsey looked at his wall and saw the speedy linebacker at the time of his pecking order. He made the call.

Dorsey was questioned about the move at the time. And the questions never faded as Ford failed to start a game as a rookie, compiling three tackles and 1 1/2 sacks all season.

“Had I listened to the noise, I wouldn’t have been ready for any of the opportunities that I was presented now,” Ford said. “Through last year and this year, you have to be patient.

With whatever your role is, you have to fill it out. Be man enough to humble yourself and learn from two of the greatest linebackers in this league and I’ve been able to do some things.”

There is no timetable for Houston’s return — the Chiefs merely call him day to day. And when he returns, there is a good chance Ford returns to his role as a situational pass rusher.

But with the 32-yearold Hali heading toward free agency, and on the downward side of his standout career, the Chiefs will begin looking toward the future. That could mean Ford moves into the lineup as the regular starter opposite Houston as soon as next year.

“He’s a first-round pick. Everybody expects him to do really good,” fellow Chiefs linebacker Derrick Johnson said. “When you have opportunities like he did, seize the moment and get better from there.

There’s plenty of things you can get better from. Football is never perfect, but hat’s off to Dee. He did a great job stepping in due to Justin Houston being hurt and he did a heck of a job.”

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Goodell stepped up and gave us some really good minutes after one of our starters got hurt during warm-ups.

The difference between tonight and last Thursday was that we played as a team.”

The Lady Cubs’ B team lost, 15-11. Kady Hart recorded 5 points and 6 rebounds in the game. Isabelle Murrow and Serena Melendez each finished the night with 2 points each.

And Madi Riebel and Ty Sellman each had 1 point.

on offense.”

In doing so, they proved that depth sometimes may be overrated.

“I don’t care how it happens as long as we win,” said Selden, the team’s leading scorer, who poured in 22 points against the Beavers. “If we’re out there a whole half, so be it.”

But playing an entire half in December is one thing. Doing it every night during the brutal, round-robin schedule of the Big 12 is another entirely. And that’s why Self may have been fine playing his starters big minutes against Oregon State, but acknowledged in the next breath that he needs to settle on a rotation before confer-

Kansas’ Carlton Bragg (15) and Cheick Diallo on Wednesday. RICH SUGG/KANSAS CITY STAR/TNS ence play begins with No. 16 Baylor on Jan. 2.

That job is becoming more difficult by the day.

Self didn’t have Diallo at his disposal to start the season because the 6-foot-9 forward from Mali was having his

eligibility questioned by the NCAA. Then, 3-point specialist Brannen Greene was suspended five games for violating team rules.

And when both finally got onto the court, forwards Landen Lucas and Jamari Traylor

came down with minor injuries that kept them out.

Soon, everybody could be eligible and healthy. And that presents a quandary.

“Right now I’d like to see some separation between our bigs, and who gets in,” Self said, “because it’s hard if you want to give guys some minutes and they’re all equal.”

If nobody separates themselves? Well, Self sounds quite content to go with a much shorter bench than even he anticipated, even if it means leaving some high-profile prospects sitting there.

“We went to the national championship game (in 2012) and played seven guys at the

most, and the only time we played an eighth was if there was serious foul trouble,” Self said, before adding the 2008 title team consisted of seven main guys with Cole Aldrich playing only occasionally.

Regardless, time is slipping by for Self to figure it out.

The Jayhawks are off this week for finals before facing Montana on Saturday. They visit San Diego State next week and play UC-Irvine on Dec. 29 in their final non-conference game.

Then, they begin pursuit of their 12th consecutive Big 12 championship.

“The reality is,” Self said, “we’ve got to get better when given an opportunity.”

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Cubs: Results Continued from B1 The Cubs’ B team also lost, 29-14. Drew Schoendaller and Drake Sellman had the most points with 3 each. Sellman also added 10 boards. Jacob Grzybowski, Luke Yokum and Titan Michael each finished with 2 points.

Grzybowski added 9 rebounds. Reid Smith and Drake Herrington each had 1 point. Herrington also had 5 steals.

Finally, the Cubs’ C team lost, 8-4. Reid Smith had 2 points and 4 rebounds, Trenton Booe had 2 points and Stanley Todd had no points but 6 rebounds.

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Liver’s blood pressure system is complicated Dear Dr. Roach: My cousin has a significant degree of liver cirrhosis from a metastatic carcinoid. The carcinoid hasn’t grown in a couple of years, but the cirrhosis continues to progress. This is from micro carcinoid tumors plugging up the flow of blood on the capillary level.

He has now developed ascites. He was recently started on furosemide and spironolactone, and has a paracentesis (6-8 liters’ worth) about twice a month. He saw a radiologist about a Denver shunt versus a TIPS procedure. Apparently, the Denver shunt would improve the ascites in relatively short order, but it wouldn’t affect the progression of the underlying liver failure. The TIPS procedure, on the other hand, has the potential to stop the liver failure in time by taking care of the portal hypertension. That said, it comes with significant risk. It could, within 90 days, lead to irreversible terminal liver failure. His “MELD” score is 20. Can you help us make sense of this? — A. Answer: This is quite complicated, but I’ll do my best.

A “TIPS” is a “transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt,” which needs to be taken piece by piece. “Transjugular” means that the procedure on the liver is done through the jugular vein in

Dr. Keith Roach To Your Good Health the neck, not through open abdominal surgery — that’s a major advantage. A shunt is an artificial connection between two anatomic structures, in this case the hepatic vein and the portal vein inside the liver (“intra-” denotes “within”; “hepatic” is “of the liver”).

The liver has two circulations. One is the usual systemic circulation, through the hepatic artery. This is high-pressure (it is near systemic blood pressure, ranging from about 120 mmHg at peak to 80 mmHg minimum), and it supplies the oxygen that the liver needs.

The liver also gets blood from the portal vein, which comes from the intestines. The liver removes toxins from this blood. The portal vein normally has a pressure of only 5-10 mmHg. Blood from both of these vessels will end up in the hepatic vein, which goes back to the right side of the heart to be reoxygenated in the lungs.

Many liver diseases lead to high pressure in the portal system — portal hypertension. In your cousin’s case, the cancer cells have blocked many of the small blood vessels inside the liver, rais-

ing portal vein pressure.

This high pressure can make fluid “back up,” and can cause ascites, a clear fluid inside the abdominal cavity. Paracentesis is just the removal of this ascites fluid via a needle through the abdominal wall. Six to eight liters at a time is an enormous amount of fluid.

A TIPS is used to reduce pressure in the portal vein by allowing the blood to pass directly from the portal vein into the hepatic vein. This often lowers the portal pressure so much that ascites no longer develops. However, it does not affect the underlying problem (i.e., the cancer cells remain in the liver).

Denver shunts are surgically placed direct connections from portal vein to hepatic vein.

They do the same thing as a TIPS procedure.

They are seldom performed anymore due to high complication rates, but one indication for having it done is persistent ascites in someone who is unable to have a TIPS. A TIPS normally is not done for someone with a MELD score (a measure of liver disease) above 18.

While a radiologist usually performs a TIPS, the decision of whether to use it should be made with the input of a gastroenterologist.

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Is there an alternate medicine to treat the urinary urgency without this side effect? Or should I forget about sex? — P.S. Answer: Sexuality is an important part of life, and there may be a way to improve your symptoms without sexual side effects. Tamsulosin commonly causes decreased ejaculation (in up to 20 percent of men), but decreased libido is less common (2 percent).

An often-used alternative treatment, finasteride (Proscar) is about as likely to cause these problems, although its related compound, dutasteride (Avodart), may have fewer side effects.

Also, medicines like tamsulosin start working immediately, while it takes weeks to months for finasteride and dutasteride to reach full effectiveness.

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It’s Cruz’s to lose in tonight’s debate WASHINGTON (AP) — Texas Sen. Ted Cruz enters tonight’s 7 o’clock Republican presidential debate with a burst of momentum, a robust campaign infrastructure, and a target on his back.

It’s a shift for Cruz, whose campaign got off to a low-key start. Now, he’s challenging Donald Trump for the lead in the kickoff Iowa caucus and casting himself as a more electable alternative who still shares the bombastic billionaire’s anti-Washington appeal.

Trump and Cruz have been friendly on the campaign trail for months.

But signs of a split have emerged in recent days, with Cruz appearing to question Trump’s judgment at a private fundraiser, according to audio obtained by The New York Times, and Trump calling Cruz “a little bit of a maniac.”

“Looks like @tedcruz is getting ready to attack,” Trump wrote on Twitter last week. “I am leading by so much he must. I hope so, he will fall like all others. Will be easy!”

Trump didn’t go after Cruz by name during a Las Vegas rally on the eve of the debate, but said the primetime faceoff could turn messy.

“I am giving them a chance for them to making total fools of themselves in front of millions of people,” Trump said, adding that he’s expecting to be attacked.

“This will not be like

an evening in paradise for me.

Do we agree?” he asked.

Ted Cruz A n o t h e r intriguing dynamic in tonight’s prime-time debate in Las Vegas involves Cruz and Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, another first-term senator and Cuban-American.

Cruz and Rubio have been sparring from afar for weeks, particularly over national security, which is now a top campaign issue following the attacks in Paris and San Bernardino, California.

Rubio has tried to brand Cruz as an isolationist and has criticized his support for ending the

bulk collection of Americans’ phone records, saying it weakens the government’s ability to identify potential terrorists.

“There are some differences in policy,” Rubio said of Cruz in an interview Monday with The Associated Press. “I think we need to be the national security party, the party of strong national security, committed to ensuring we have the strongest military force in the world.”

More broadly, Rubio’s campaign is eager to cast Cruz, who prides himself on being a conservative “truth-teller,” as a politically expedient flip-flopper who is willing to say whatever is necessary to win an election. Rubio’s campaign

Any way you slice it…

has raised questions about the consistency of Cruz’s positions on sending troops to the Middle East, as well as what they consider ambiguous answers he gives on whether he would allow immigrants living in the U.S. illegally to stay here.

Cruz’s campaign has dismissed Rubio’s criticism, with spokesman Rick Tyler saying, “Nobody believes Senator Cruz is weak on national defense and security.”

Tonight’s debate will be the first for Republicans in more than a month.

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