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Thursday, January 19, 2017

Murder charge filed in Iola woman’s death Son accused By RICHARD LUKEN The Iola Register

Iolan Brandon Walter Callahan, 34, was charged Wednesday with first-degree murder in the death of his mother, Lucretia Callahan, 55, following an incident at their Iola home. Allen County Attorney Jerry Hathaway announced the charges in a press release late Wednesday afternoon. Callahan was arrested Tuesday, and officers discovered his mother’s body in their home in the 10 block of West Edwards Street. Callahan’s bond was set at $1 million, Hathaway said. Callahan also is being charged with criminal use

Kansas House Majority Leader Don Hineman, a moderate Republican from Dighton, says Kansas voters sent a message last year that legislators should fix the state budget mess. KANSAS

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Legislature eyes budget fixes By JIM MCLEAN Kansas News Service

Brandon Callahan of a financial card and theft, Hathaway said. Iola Police Chief Jared Warner said the other charges were related, but declined to comment further. Police also have declined to list the cause of death.

structural problems with the state budget.

The Kansas legislative session is not yet two weeks old, but there are already signs of the change that many voters called for in the recent elections. New legislative leadership and an aggressive group of newcomers are pushing back against many of Gov. Sam

Message From Voters

Brownback’s budget proposal, which they say won’t fix

From the earliest days of the campaign season it was evident that many voters were frustrated about the “budget mess” in Topeka. Way back in May, Sen. Forrest Knox, an Altoona ReSee FIXES | Page A5

Obama: ‘We’re going to be OK’ By CHRISTI PARSONS Tribune News Service

President elect Donald Trump and President Barack Obama merchandise is on sale in the streets this week in Washington, D.C. ABACA PRESS/OLIVIER DOULIERY/TNS

Inauguration Day: Things to watch By NANCY BENAC The Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) — From a morning stop at church through the swearing-in to the last dance of the evening, it’s going to be an inaugural marathon on Friday. Donald Trump will take Washington by storm, no matter what the weather. (Which, by the way, looks like rain.) Some things to watch for on Inauguration Day: 35 or 39?

Trump’s oath of office is the only essential on Friday; all the rest is window dressing. The Constitution sets out a 35-word oath for the new president. Some presidents make it 39 by tacking on “so help me God.” There are con-

flicting stories about when the ad lib started. The National Archives says George Washington added the words when he took the oath at his 1789 inaugural. Some say the first eyewitness account of a president using those words came at Chester Arthur’s inauguration in 1881. Historian Jim Bendat says Washington’s use of the phrase is a myth, but every president since 1933 has done it. THE SPEECH

Trump’s inaugural address will set the tone for the launch of his presidency. Will he go the traditional route and offer a message of unity to a divided nation, play the role of disrupter of the established order, or blend a little of both? This won’t be his usual off-the-cuff address.

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Aides say Trump has taken a big role in writing the speech and has been practicing at Trump Tower. Expect him to keep it short, around 20 minutes or so. AWKWARD

When Trump is sworn in, Hillary Clinton will be sitting on the inaugural platform alongside husband Bill Clinton. She’ll be intent on keeping a poker face, but that’s got to be tough. All eyes will be watching to see whether Trump has any interaction with his vanquished rival, or mentions her in his address. IT’S (NOT) JUST LUNCH

Washington ate alone after his 1789 inauguration. Trump will go straight from See TRUMP | Page A5

WASHINGTON (TNS) — President Barack Obama closed his presidency on a note of optimism Wednesday, telling a room of reporters that, despite the worry felt by many of his fellow partisans about the incoming Trump administration, “we’re going to be OK.” In what was scheduled as the final news conference of his presidency, Obama said that after all he has witnessed, he is walking away with a sense of hopefulness about the country and where it is going. He framed the comments as a description of what he had told his daughters after this year’s election, but his remarks, likely to be among his last public statements from the White House, also served as a message to his fellow Democrats. Many on his side of the aisle have talked in nearapocalyptic tones about the impending Trump administration. Obama was more measured. “I believe in this country,” he said. “I believe in the American people. I believe that people are more good than bad. I believe tragic things happen. I think there’s evil in the world, but I think at the end of the day, if we work hard and if we’re true to those things in us that feel true and feel right, that the world gets a little better each time.” “That’s what this presidency has tried to be about,” he said.

“There’s not a liberal America and a conservative America — there’s the United States of America.” — Barack Obama 75 Cents

President Barack Obama holds his final press conference Wednesday in the White House briefing room in Washington, D.C. ABACA

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The message will likely be his last one in public for a while. Obama said he reserves the right to speak up, especially if what he called America’s “core values” come under assault. Short of that, however, he plans now to go into a period of “quiet” and “not hear (himself) talk so darn much.” He’ll devote himself to writing and contemplation, he said, taking time for reflection that he hasn’t had under the pressures of the Oval Office. His departure Friday comes at a time of anxiety for many of his fellow Democrats. Dozens of Democratic members of Congress plan to boycott Donald Trump’s inauguration, and women’s groups and unions are organizing demonstrations for the weekend. Obama has not repudiSee OBAMA | Page A5

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