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State searches for answers By JOHN HANNA The Associated Press
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The Kansas Legislature’s attempt to build bipartisan support for a court-mandated increase in state aid to poor school districts stalled Friday as lawmakers from affluent Kansas City suburbs demanded assurances that their schools won’t lose money. A joint meeting of the
state House and Senate judiciary committees previewed a potentially intense sectional fight over education fund-
ing during a special legislative session that begins next week. Republican Gov. Sam Brownback summoned the GOP-dominated Legislature back to the Statehouse to address a state Supreme Court order last month. The high court said the state’s education funding system remains unfair to poor school districts. It warned that schools might See STATE | Page A6
Going for gold By JON DYKSTRA The Iola Register
In less than a month, Josh Honeycutt will have the chance of a lifetime. The 2007 Iola High School graduate will compete in the triple jump in Eugene, Ore., at the U.S. Olympic Trials with his sights set on earning a place on the U.S. Olympic Team bound for Rio de
Janeiro, Brazil. This opportunity for Honeycutt is the culmination of a journey that began long ago, 1,800 miles from Eugene and the University of Oregon’s campus, right here in Iola. Over the next week, the Iola Register will be releasing a three-part series on Honeycutt’s journey, starting with today’s first installment on page B1.
Catching a wave Scores of youngsters flocked to the Recreation Community Building in Iola’s Riverside Park Friday for their annual 4-H Day Camp. Activities surrounding the theme, “Catch A Wave,” included making shark hats, ocean soap and picture frames. Among the participants, at left, Danielle Sharp assists Henry Kramer on an art project. Above, Kyser Nemecek shouts during a relay race. REGISTER/KLAIR VOGEL
Photography skills pay off Judge: Kobach is By RICK DANLEY The Iola Register
At a small newspaper, where the reporter’s duty is to write stories with his right hand and snap pictures with his left, the opportunity to enlist a dedicated staff photographer is a rare convenience. Luckily, though, it’s one afforded the Iola Register this summer. Recent Iola High School graduate Klair Vogel is serving this paper as an intern until August, when she will head off to Pittsburg State University to major in photojournalism and work at the school’s newspaper and on its yearbook. (Vogel is one of two interns brightening the rooms at the Register this summer. See last Saturday’s paper for an article on word wiz Jason Tidd.)
Klair Vogel, photography intern this summer for the Iola Register, shows off a portfolio of some of her best photographs she’s taken. REGISTER/RICHARD LUKEN
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VOGEL traces her passion for pictures back to her 12th or 13th year, but the notion that she could convert this enthusiasm into a career didn’t strike her until she enrolled in her first photography class four years ago. “It See VOGEL | Page A5
out of bounds on new election laws By ROXANA HEGEMAN The Associated Press
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A judge is standing by his earlier ruling that Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach has no legal right to bar people from casting ballots in local and state elections because they registered to vote using a federal form that did not require proof of citizenship. In a ruling made public Thursday, Shawnee County District Judge Franklin Theis rejected Kobach’s request that he reconsider an earlier decision. Theis said in January that the right to vote under state law is not tied to the method of registration. Two weeks after that decision, Brian Newby, the new executive director of the U.S. Election Assistance Commission, added a documentary citizenship requirement on the national voter registration form for residents of Kansas, Georgia and Alabama. Newby unilaterally changed the national form without approval from the agency’s commissioners.
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That change prompted Kobach to ask the judge to reconsider his ruling. But Theis said in this week’s ruling Kris Kobach that if challenging “overreaching governmental conduct” could be circumvented because a law or regulation is later changed, then there could “never be any efficient or practical check on the abuse of power by a governmental official.” He also noted that Newby’s action has been challenged by a coalition of voting rights groups. The order was signed Tuesday, the same day a federal judge’s order in a separate case went into effect that requires more than 18,000 Kansas residents who registered at motor vehicle offices without citizenship documents to be registered for federal elections. The 10th Circuit Court of Appeals refused last week See KOBACH | Page A5
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