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County pressed on tower project U.S. 69 in Overland Park at dawn, as traffic quickly fills up a highway that clogs nearly every rush hour. KAN-

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Kelly lays out highway funding strategy

By JIM MCLEAN Kansas News Service

TOPEKA — Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly’s transportation plan isn’t as bold as those that came before it.

Since the 1990s, Kansas has spent tens of billions of dollars on three successive 10-year programs. Each required a tax increase and launched with a commitment to complete a long list of new building projects.

But Kelly, a Democrat who won election on a promise to restore the state’s finances, isn’t proposing a bunch of new projects. And she isn’t seeking a tax increase to help pay for her plan.

Instead, she’s pledging to stop taking money from the Kansas Department of Transportation — and asking lawmakers to do the same — so that the agency can rebuild roads and bridges suffering from years of lax maintenance. She’s also See HIGHWAYS | Page A5

By TREVOR HOAG The Iola Register

Sheriff Bryan Murphy, flanked by fellow first responders, came before the Allen County Commission Tuesday morning to inquire about the status of a proposed communications tower in the southeast corner of the county.

The tower will help police officers and firefighters to radio one another and respond to emergencies, especially around Elsmore, Savonburg and Humboldt.

Residents in these areas would also benefit from the proposed tower, as it can hold two commercial antennae with the power to enable better cell phone connections and internet data.

“That’s a double benefit for

Sheriff Bryan Murphy along with other first responders check in with the Allen County Commission regarding the status of a proposed communications tower in the southeast corner of the county. REGISTER/TREVOR HOAG citizens in that corner,” said commissioner Jerry Daniels.

The cost of the proposed tower is estimated between $800,000 and $1 million.

Murphy said the tower had already received FAA approval and that a geological study of the area had been successfully performed.

“My question is, I just want to know where we’re at. Are we ready to move out with the RFP [Request for See COUNTY | Page A3

Trump’s clemency spree includes Blagojevich WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump went on a clemency blitz Tuesday, commuting former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich’s 14-year prison sentence and pardoning former New York City police commissioner Bernie Kerik, among a long list of others.

Those who got a break from Trump include financier Michael Milken, the “junk bond king” who served two years in prison in the early 1990s after pleading guilty to violating U.S. securities laws, and Edward DeBartolo Jr., the former San Francisco 49ers owner convicted in a gambling fraud scandal after

building one of the most successful NFL teams in history. But Trump also commuted the sentences of Rod several womBlagojevich en with more sympathetic cases to balance out the men convicted of corruption.

In all, Trump took clemency actions related to 11 people, his latest interventions in the justice system as he faces growing criticism for weighing in on the cases of former aides. Trump made clear that he saw similarities

between efforts to investigate his own conduct and those that took down Blagojevich, a Democrat Michael Milken who appeared on Trump’s reality TV show, “Celebrity Apprentice.”

“It was a prosecution by the same people — Comey, Fitzpatrick, the same group,” Trump told reporters. He was referring to Patrick Fitzgerald, the former U.S. attorney who prosecuted Blagojevich and now represents former FBI Director James Comey,

whom Trump fired from the agency in May 2017.

Comey was working in the private sector during the Blagojev- Bernard Kerik ich investigation and indictment.

The clemency actions come as an emboldened Trump continues to test the limits of his office now that impeachment is over. The actions drew alarm from Democratic Rep. Bill Pascrell, Jr. of New Jersey, who accused See TRUMP | Page BX

Fillies roll past Osawatomie

KC school crossing guard praised after fatal accident Members of the SAFE Schools Committee review their accomplishments since the group formed in 2018. They met last week to plan their next project. Members include, from left, Chi Wiggin, Kay Lewis, Ryan Bilderback, Ken McWhirter, Angie Murphy, County Commissioner Bruce Symes, Doug Tressler, Cynthia Jacobson and Danny Rodriguez. REGISTER/VICKIE MOSS

SAFE Schools group eyes wind farm money

By VICKIE MOSS The Iola Register

Now that the Prairie Queen Wind Farm is operational, owners EDP Renewals at some point this year will pay $250,000 to Allen County as a “payment in lieu of taxes” (PILOT). Those payments will be made each year for the next 10 years while the wind farm is exempt from property taxes.

The only stipulation is that the money is to be used “to enhance educational opportunities.”

Allen County commissioners will distribute the money, but it is not quite clear how they will do so.

The SAFE Schools committee, a countywide volunteer group with representatives of area schools and public service agencies, plan to attend the March 3 com-

mission meeting to ask commissioners to start thinking about how they might distribute those funds.

Commissioner Bruce Symes attended the SAFE meeting Thursday and said he encouraged the group to start those conversations.

Neither he nor Commissioner Bill King were part of the commission when the See WIND FARM | Page A3

KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — A crossing guard who died after being hit by a vehicle in Kansas City, Kansas, saved the lives of two children before the impact, a school principal said.

The guard was struck early Tuesday near Christ the King Parish School in Kansas City, Kansas, and died later at a hospital. His name wasn’t immediately released pending notification of family members. No children were injured, police spokesman Jonathon Westbrook said.

Christ the King principal Cathy Fithian said two students were getting ready to cross the street when the guard yelled at them to stop, preventing them from being See GUARD | Page A5

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Wanda Kneen, with Senior Life Solutions at Allen County Regional Hospital, celebrates Allen County’s inaugural “Hoodie-Hoo Day� last year.

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County gets ready for Hoodie-Hoo Day If you’re tired of winter, throw your hands in the air and yell, “Hoodie-Hoo!�

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People are encouraged to go outdoors,

wave their hands (or a blanket) in the air and yell “HoodieHoo!� Post photos or videos online with the hashtag #AllenCountyHoodieHoo. The Northern Hemisphere Hoodie-Hoo Day is an actual holiday, developed by Wellcat.com, which posts numerous quirky holidays like “For the Love of Mike Day — Who is Mike and why are we supposed to love him?� on Feb. 22 and “True Confessions Day� on March 15.

Financial Focus Are You a Mindful Investor?

Recently, we’ve seen an increased interest in mindfulness, although the concept itself is thousands of years old. Essentially, being mindful means you are living very much in the present, highly conscious of your thoughts and feelings. However, being mindful doesn’t mean acting on those thoughts and feelings – it’s just the opposite. With mindfulness, your decision-making is based on cognitive skills and a rational perspective, rather than emotions. As such, mindfulness can be quite valuable as you make investment decisions.

Two of the most common emotions or tendencies associated with investing are fear and greed. Let’s see how they can affect investors’ behavior. • When investors are fearful ‌ Investors’ biggest fear is losing money. So, how did many of them respond during the steep market decline from late 2007 through early 2009? They began selling off their stocks and stock-based mutual funds and fled for “saferâ€? investments, such as Treasury bills and certificates of deposit.

But mindful investors witnessed the same situation and saw something else: a great buying opportunity. By looking past the fear of losing money, they recognized the chance to buy quality investments at bargain prices.

And they were rewarded for their patience, long-term perspective and refusal to let fear govern their decisions, because 10 years after the market bottomed out in March 2009 (as measured by the Dow Jones Industrial Average), it had risen about 300 percent. • When investors are greedy ‌ We only have to go back a few years before the 2007-09 bear market to see a classic example of greed in the investment world. From 1995 to early 2000, investors chased after almost any company that had “dot comâ€? in its name, even companies with no business plans, no assets and, in some cases, no products. Yet, the rising stock prices of these companies led more and more investors to buy shares in them, causing a greed-driven vicious circle – more demand led to higher prices, which led to more demand.

But the bubble burst in March 2000, and by October 2002, the technology-dominated Nasdaq stock index had fallen more than 75%. And since some of these companies not only lost value, but went out of business, many investors never recouped their investments.

To avoid the dangers of fear and greed, take these steps: • Know your investments. Make sure you understand what you’re investing in. Know the fundamentals, such as the quality of the product or service, the skill of the management team, the state of the industry, whether the stock is priced fairly or overvalued, and so on. The better informed you are, the less likely you’ll be to chase after “hotâ€? investments or to bail out on good ones. • Rebalance when necessary. If you’ve decided your portfolio should contain certain percentages of stocks, bonds and other vehicles, stick to those percentages and rebalance when necessary. • Keep investing. Ups and downs are a normal feature of the investment landscape. By continuing to invest over time, rather than stopping and starting, you can reduce the effects of volatility on your portfolio.

It’s not always easy to be a mindful investor and to avoid letting emotions drive your decisions – but it’s well worth the effort.

This article was written by Edward Jones for use by your local Edward Jones Financial Advisor.

Iola police officers arrested Christopher D. Cooper, 31, Iola, Monday for suspicion of felony theft, reckless driving, driving while suspended or revoked and interfering with law enforcement.

Allen County sheriff ’s deputies arrested Joseph M. Leftwich, 35, Neosoho Falls, for suspicion of driving while suspended (third offense) Saturday.

Deputies arrested Steve A. Holtz, 36, Iola, Saturday for suspicion of driving against restrictions and no liability insurance.

Iola officers arrested James E. Lindsay, 53, Joplin, Saturday for suspicion of domestic battery.

Scott L. Misenhelter, 50, was arrested by deputies Saturday for suspicion of possessing methamphetamine and drug paraphernalia, aggravated assault on a law enforcement officer, criminal possession of

a weapon, attempting to flee or elude law enforcement and transporting an open container of alcohol.

Deputies arrested Lexie L. Smith Jr., 45, Olathe, on a warrant Friday.

Cade R. Wathke, 18, Topeka, was arrested by deputies Friday for suspected driving while suspended.

John A. Louk, 20, Kincaid, was booked into jail Friday by deputies for suspicion of possessing marijuana and drug paraphernalia and possessing alcohol as a minor.

Daryl W. Beaman, 54, Iola, was arrested by deputies Friday for suspicion of illegal registration and no liability insurance.

Iola officers arrested Kevin W. Runer, 58, Colony, Thursday for suspicion of possessing a controlled substance and drug paraphernalia.

Deputies arrested Devonte C. Head, 26, Ex-

eter, Mo., Thursday on a warrant related to a theft charge.

William L. Jones, 60, rural Iola, was arrested by deputies Thursday for suspicion of driving while intoxicated (second offense) and trespassing.

Jason L. Cole, 35, Humboldt was arrested

by Iola police Thursday for suspicion of stalking, domestic battery, violating a protection from abuse order and criminal damage to property.

Cory J. Eisenbart, 30, Iola, was arrested by deputies Feb. 9 for suspicion of driving while intoxicated and transporting an open container of alcohol.

Tyler R. Fisher, 23, Lawrence, was arrested by the Kansas Highway Patrol Feb. 8 for a warrant out of Neosho County related to a criminal damage to property charge.

Michael F. Naff, 34, Humboldt, was arrested

by KHP Feb. 8 on nine warrants.

Troopers arrested Jacob A. Bancroft, 34, Chanute, for suspicion of driving while suspended and two Neosho County warrants.

Jason L. Poffenbarger, 43, Iola, was arrested by troopers Feb. 8 on a warrant related to a trespassing charge.

Citation issued Iola police officers cited Damon Walters, 39, Iola, for suspected criminal damage to property and disorderly conduct Sunday, following an incident in the 400 block of South Chestnut Street.

Driver crashes Dalton J. Sicka, 23, was turning south onto Kansas Drive from Willow Drive in the early morning hours of Feb. 8 when his car left the roadway and came to rest at the northeast corner of the intersection.

He was uninjured.

Debate will test Bloomberg campaign’s gamble STEVE PEOPLES The Associated Press

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Mike Bloomberg will confront the greatest test of his presidential campaign when he faces five Democratic rivals in a debate in Las Vegas that could fundamentally change the direction of the party’s 2020 nomination fight.

The debate debut for the billionaire former mayor of New York is poised to offer fresh insight into whether his unconventional campaign strategy — bypassing early voting states such as Nevada and spending hundreds of millions of dollars to spread his message on the airwaves — is sustainable.

Tonight’s 8 o’clock debate comes at a pivotal point in the campaign as moderate voters are struggling to unify, with

Democratic presidential candidate and former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg. some increasingly looking to Bloomberg to become the clear alternative to progressive Bernie Sanders. And lest there be any doubt, all the participants expect a hostile reception for Bloomberg, who formally registered as a Democrat in 2018 and has faced relatively little national scrutiny in his surprisingly swift rise from nonpartisan megadonor to top-tier presidential contender. “He is going to have a giant target on his back

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The stakes are high for others as well just days before Nevada’s next-up presidential caucuses, the third contest in the Democrats’ chaotic 2020 primary season. After more than a year of campaigning, there is little clarity in their urgent search for a nominee to run against President Donald Trump in November.

Longtime establishment favorite Joe Biden, a former two-term vice president, is fighting to breathe new life into his flailing campaign, which enters the night at the bottom of a moderate muddle with former South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg and Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar. Sanders, a Vermont senator, has emerged as the progressive wing’s clear prefer-

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ence after two contests as Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren is struggling to regain energy around her campaign.

Some Democrats fear that the conditions are ripe for a bare-knuckles brawl on national television that could carve new scars into a divided Democratic Party that must ultimately come together this fall if it hopes to deny the Republican president a second term.

Bloomberg’s rivals have already indicated they will lean into his explosive comments on race and gender in addition to their charge that he’s using a fortune earned from a career on Wall Street to buy the presidency. Bloomberg’s rise in national polls has been fueled almost exclusively by an unprecedented national advertising campaign, carefully controlled campaign events and a sprawling national organization that has likely already cost him more than half a billion dollars.

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BEIJING (AP) — China today said it has revoked the press credentials of three reporters for the U.S. newspaper The Wall Street Journal over a headline for an opinion column deemed racist by the government.

The expulsions come after the Trump administration on Tuesday designated five state-run Chinese news outlets that operate in the United States as “foreign missions,” requiring them to register their properties and employees in the U.S. China said it reserves the right to respond to what it called a mistaken policy.

The headline on the Journal’s opinion column referred to the current virus outbreak in China and called the country the “Real Sick Man of Asia.”

Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Geng Shuang said the Feb. 3 op-ed by Bard College Professor Walter Russel Mead “smears the efforts of the Chinese government and people on fighting (the virus) epidemic.”

“The editors used such a racially discriminatory title, triggering indignation and condemnation among the Chinese people and the international community,” he said in a statement.

He said the expulsions

PILOT agreement was signed, and no decisions about the distribution have been made. The county has not yet received the payment, and it’s not clear when that might happen though it should arrive at least by the end of the year.

The PILOT agreement specifies giving money for the Iola, Humboldt and Marmaton Valley school districts and the Rural Regional Tech Center at LaHarpe, but SAFE committee member Angie Murphy asked if it also would include Allen Community College, the ANW Cooperative and the Southeast Kansas Community Action Program (SEK-CAP). All of those entities work to educate Allen County students, she said, and the SAFE committee provides programs that cover them, too.

The group receives grants and donations to pay for its programs, but has a long list of safety initiatives and training programs it could explore with more money.

Symes said commissioners would be glad to hear proposals.

“I think a meeting with this group would be fantastic,” Symes said. “Bring us up to speed on what’s been done and what you’re working on in the future.”

came after the Journal refused demands to “make an official apology and hold the persons involved accountable.”

The term “sick man of Asia” was originally used to describe China more than a century ago when it suffered internal divisions and was forced to accept unequal treaties with Western powers.

Like most foreign media, The Wall Street Journal is unavailable within China and its website and stories are blocked by online censors.

It did not immediately respond to emailed requests for comment.

The Foreign Correspondents’ Club of China issued a statement expressing “deep concern and strong condemnation” of the Chinese move.

It pointed out that none of the three reporters had any involvement with the opinion piece or its headline.

“The action taken against The Journal correspondents is an extreme and obvious attempt by the Chinese authorities to intimidate foreign news organizations by taking retribution against their China-based correspondents,” the statement said. It said the expulsions are the latest case of growing “harassment, surveillance and intimidation

from authorities.”

China has in recent years refused to issue or renew credentials for foreign journalists, but this is the first time in decades that it has actually revoked their documents, effectively expelling them from the country.

That reflects a new hard line in foreign affairs in which China has sought to exact economic and diplomatic costs from companies and countries that don’t follow its policies over Taiwan, Hong Kong, Tibet, human rights and other sensitive issues.

President and Communist Party leader Xi Jinping has repeatedly stated that China will make no concessions when it comes to national territory, sovereignty or dignity.

In one recent case, China cut commercial ties with the U.S. National Basketball Association after an official with the Houston Rockets team tweeted support for Hong Kong pro-democracy protesters whom China has derided as separatists.

The Journal identified the three journalists as Deputy Bureau Chief Josh Chin, reporter Chao Deng — both U.S. citizens — and reporter Philip Wen, an Australian.

They have been given five

days to leave the country, according to Jonathan Cheng, the Journal’s China bureau chief.

Last fall, Chinese authorities declined to renew the press credentials of Beijing-based Journal reporter Chun Han Wong, a Singaporean, one month after he and another Journal reporter wrote a story detailing an Australian investigation into the alleged links of Xi’s cousin to high-stakes gambling, money laundering and suspected organized crime.

“We resolutely oppose certain foreign journalists’ evil intention to smear and attack China,” China’s foreign ministry said in a response to questions about Wong’s status at that time.

Following the publication of Mead’s opinion column this month, a foreign ministry spokeswoman lashed out at him, saying he should be “ashamed of your words, your arrogance, your prejudice and your ignorance.”

In an opinion piece on its website, the Global Times newspaper published by the ruling Communist Party said the expulsions and Washington’s actions against the five Chinese media outlets were “not entirely coincidental” and implied a strong connection between the two.

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County: Commissioners talk ACC project, hospital sales tax Continued from A1

Proposal]?” asked Murphy.

After some discussion the Commission voted for the project to move forward, and that a proposal and bids could be submitted and considered.

Commissioner Bill King added that he thought ample funding for the project was available in this year’s budget.

OF NOTE as well is that commissioners attended Monday evening’s public forum on the proposed activities center at Allen Community College.

Regarding the center, Daniels said he’s “not sure that the county can help or if we want to.”

He and King also said they shared concerns with constituents who did not want to see the mill levy or taxes raised in order to help build the facility if it were to include an indoor swimming pool.

“I will not raise the mill levy for anybody,” Daniels said. “But we could loan [the college] a bulldozer.”

During the forum at

ACC, President John Masterson said he does not intend to increase the mill levy in order to complete the project.

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Chairman of the Allen County Regional Hospital Board, met with commissioners to discuss continuation of the quarter-cent sales tax in support of the hospital for the next five years.

The tax was approved by voters 10 years ago but must soon be renewed.

Discussion focused on educating and informing the community — by mail, newspapers and radio — about the importance of continuing the tax.

“We want the sales tax to be successful,” said Commissioner Symes.

The county essentially serves as the hospital’s landlord, commissioners said, and it is important to protect the investment taxpayers have made so far.

The vote for continuation of the hospital sales tax will be April 7, with advanced voting beginning March 18.

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meeting began with an introduction by Donald Leapheart, the county’s new Service to the Elderly driver.

King commended Leapheart on how much he respects older people, saying he appreciated the kind of special attention Don gives them.

“That could be my mom and dad out there,” Leapheart said. “So I always try and do the best

I can.”

Debbie Bearden, representing the LaHarpe Days Committee, also came before the Commission to request $500 so they could rent an inflatable bounce-house for kids at this year’s festivities June 27.

The Commission did not approve funds for the bounce-house at this time but said they would consider it.

Bearden also men-

tioned there would be a vintage baseball game at this year’s LaHarpe Days and encouraged people to sign up to play.

Public Works Director Mitch Garner said that county employees had been “out patching, grading roads [and] putting rock down.”

He also mentioned the county’s rock crusher is still inoperable because the wrong parts had been delivered.

Finally, resident Randy Stanley came before the Commission to request that repair work be performed in areas such as Delaware Road east of Monarch Cement.

He further suggested that commissioners consider enacting lower speed limits — from 55 mph to 45 mph — on rural county roads that have a tendency to be damaged during wet weather.

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K-12 funds should not be used for college-level classes Addressing the cost of higher education in Kansas is important. Those who graduate from college have better career prospects, but they shouldn’t be burdened by lifelong, crushing debt.

That being said, a proposal in the Kansas Legislature that would allow K-12 school districts to cover college tuition costs for dually enrolled students is the wrong way to go. Money from the state general fund allocated to our public schools should be spent on our public schools, and on educating students in these early years.

That doesn’t mean the concept of allowing high school students to get a jump on college classes is bad or unworkable. Testimony from the executive director of public affairs for Wichita Public Schools suggests great promise for the idea. It would target and assist students who might be at risk of not attending college.

“These are students who are in the middle,” said Terrell Davis, the public affairs director. “They have potential, but they could just as easily fall through the cracks. They sit in classrooms making anywhere from a 2.5 to 3.0 GPA. They get in trouble from time to time — not because they are bad kids but because they are bored.”

Graduating them from high school with a sheaf of completed college classes would be a way to jumpstart their education.

And again, this seems like a worthy goal. But it’s ultimately not what the general fund education dollars are for. The state also funds higher education, and that’s the appropriate source of funding for encouraging students toward college and university degrees.

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Spending money on colleges and universities isn’t always politically popular. Not everyone attends, and legislators might complain that graduates leave the state anyway or — much worse — become liberals. But the facts are the facts. College degrees (and we’re including two-year associate’s degrees in this category) make a lifelong difference.

At the same time, the House Commerce Committee moved to pass the Kansas Promise Scholarship Act, a $10 million bill that would direct aid toward students enrolled in two-year or technical degree programs in specific fields. It also would carry a residency requirement. We’re not ready to endorse that legislation, but it shows that there are other approaches and ideas in the air that don’t require cannibalizing K-12 support.

If we want to encourage college attendance, money to do that should come from higher education funds. It’s as simple and straightforward as that.

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Recliner wars at 30,000 feet It’s time to weigh in on the big online debate of the moment. No, it’s not about whether Attorney General William Barr should be fired, whether putting an cruise ship on quarantine contains or spreads the coronavirus, whether the Houston Astros should be stripped of their 2017 World Series title for cheating.

No, we’re talking about the controversy that really makes Americans air travelers’ blood boil: Do they have a right to recline their seats — or do they need to ask permission from the passenger behind them?

The issue has come to the fore because of the online posting of a video showing a conflict between two passengers on a Jan. 31 American Eagle flight between New Orleans and Charlotte, N.C. The video taken by a women in a reclined seat showed the man seated behind her rhythmically pushing the back of her seat out of irritation at the intrusion into what he regarded as his space. The videographer, Wendi Williams, said this continued throughout the flight.

What really angered Williams — and prompted her to take her case to the jury of the Twitterverse — was that the flight attendant and air-

line seemed to side with him.

Williams said she was scolded and told to delete the video, while the man behind her was given a complimentary cocktail. The video immediately went viral, surpassing a million views and a spirited debate about whether Williams or her unidentified antagonist was in the right.

Some responses invoked what they accept as an unwritten rule of air travel to ask permission before reclining a seat unless it is absolutely necessary for, say, relieving a back problem or catching a brief nap before an important meeting. Delta Air Lines CEO Ed Bastian made himself a target of recliner-rights advocates on Friday when he told CNBC, “The proper thing to do is, if you’re going to recline into somebody, you ask if it’s OK first.”

That may be the case in an ideal world, but the world of modern air travel is anything but ideal, where passengers elbow one another over space in overstuffed overhead bins, are subject to maddening delays and endure long security lines on the way to their cramped seats in sold-out planes. Rare is the trip that doesn’t involve at least one teeth-gritting incident.

The passenger behind Williams was clearly out of line.

An arms race that no one can win

By OLIVIA ALPERSTEIN Tribune News Service

Welcome to the 21st century nuclear arms race. Once again, we’re teetering on the brink of nuclear conflict instead of taking critical steps toward de-escalation and disarmament.

If it feels like we’re in the middle of a wacky James Bond movie plot, that’s not far off. Any progress we were making toward nuclear safety is being rapidly, systematically and recklessly dismantled by the Trump administration.

Current tensions with Iran, particularly after the assassination of top Iranian military commander Qassem Soleimani, have heightened not just the risk of regional conflict but also of global nuclear war.

In his State of the Union address on Feb. 4, President Donald Trump declared that Iran “must abandon its pursuit of nuclear weapons,” without acknowledging that he unilaterally withdrew the United States from an international treaty, which was successfully doing just that. It’s vital that the United

States get back to the negotiating table and reenter the Iran deal.

Trump also pulled out of the landmark IntermediateRange Nuclear Forces Treaty between the United States and Russia. This treaty led to the elimination of nearly 2,700 intermediate-range missiles and helped the two countries make tangible progress in stabilization and disarmament efforts.

Currently, the most important arms control treaty the United States is still a party to is the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, also known as New START. The treaty is set to expire just a year from now, in February 2021.

In December, Russian President Vladimir Putin offered to immediately extend the New START treaty, without preconditions. But New START’s future remains unclear. Trump has hinted in the past that he may let the treaty simply expire, while senior U.S. officials have said that Washington wants a broader deal involving China.

Former United States Secretary of State Dr. Madeleine Albright and former Russian

foreign minister Igor Ivanov co-authored a Feb. 10 op-ed in the New York Times urging the United States to work to extend New START. “Doing nothing while waiting for a ‘better’ agreement is a recipe for disaster: We could lose New START and fail to replace it,” they wrote.

“The treaty’s agreed limits on nuclear arsenals are too important to be put at risk in a game of nuclear chicken.”

The stakes in preserving or reentering these vital arms control treaties could not be higher.

Besides ditching vital arms control treaties, the Trump administration is actively revving up the arms race.

On Feb. 5, the U.S. Defense Department confirmed that the Navy has deployed a lowyield, submarine-launched ballistic missile warhead.

To call these weapons “lowyield” is misleading. At 6.5 kilotons, they are 2,600 times more powerful than the 1995 Oklahoma City bomb. And they may be indistinguishable on radar from missiles armed with high-yield bombs, meaning an adversary could respond to a launch with a full attack, immediately es-

calating the conflict to a full nuclear war.

Proponents of this lowyield nuclear warhead say it is more “usable,” a turn of phrase that should concern everyone. A more “usable” warhead increases the risk of actual nuclear conflict, while decreasing U.S. national security.

We all have a vital interest in ensuring that nuclear weapons are not used. It’s time for the United States to take the lead on nonproliferation and disarmament. The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists’ Doomsday Clock, which rates the danger of unparalleled catastrophe, is now set at 100 seconds to midnight, closer than ever to an apocalyptic disaster. And in the real world, we can’t rely on a vodka martini-sipping British spy to save us.

About the writer: Olivia Alperstein is the media relations manager for Physicians for Social Responsibility, www.psr.org. This column was produced for the Progressive Media Project, which is run by The Progressive magazine, and distributed by Tribune News Service.

But neither Williams nor the flight attendant is blameless here: an obvious resolution would have been to simply move her to another seat.

But let’s not lose sight of the real culprit: the carriers who have been shrinking legroom to pack more paying customers in each cabin and the Federal Aviation Administration for rejecting demands to regulate the size of seats in 2018. It’s not just a matter of comfort — especially for taller passengers — but also a matter of safety. The tight seat configurations and narrow rows could slow down evacuations in an emergency, though the FAA accepted the industry’s test that discounted the potential hazard.

In the 1970s, the typical distance between seat backs was 31 to 35 inches. Today, it can be as small as 28 inches, and seat widths have shrunk about an inch, even as the percentage of Americans classified as overweight has increased.

The FAA should take another look at regulating seat size on airplanes.

In the meantime, be considerate about plopping your elbow on that shared armrest.

Otherwise you just might become the villain of the next viral video.

— The San Francisco Chronicle

A look back in t me.

Plates marked Allen County’s first 100 years in 1955.

February 1955 65 Years Ago

The Allen County Centennial now has an official “seal.” It was created as a personal contribution to the Centennial by Clyde Watson, art instructor at Iola High School. The drawing of the seal in this issue shows its special application to Allen County: the corn, wheat, barn, and dairy cow, the rolling landscape, the cement plant, the oil tanks, the trolley and a modern automobile.

The seal will be used on letterheads, official documents, advertisements, publicity and stock certificates of the Commission.

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Source: Barr says he may resign over impasse with Trump WASHINGTON (AP) — Attorney General William Barr has told people close to him he’s considering quitting his post after President Donald Trump wouldn’t heed his warning to stop tweeting about Justice Department cases, an administration official told The Associated Press.

The revelation came days after Barr took a public swipe at the president, saying in a television interview that Trump’s tweets about Justice Department cases and staffers make it “impossible” for him to do his job. The next day, Trump ignored Barr’s request and insisted that he has the “legal right” to intervene in criminal cases and sidestep the Justice Department’s historical independence.

The administration official was not authorized to discuss Barr’s private remarks and requested anonymity.

It’s unclear how seriously day that he’s considering Barr has considered resign- suing those involved in speing or whether he is instead cial counsel Robert Mueltrying to pressure Trump ler’s Russia investigation to back off his provocative and opined that his confitweets about dant Roger the Justice Stone deDepartment. served a new On Tuesday, Presi- trial after beBarr is one of the presi- dent Trump declared ing convicted dent’s closwitness himself “the chief law of est allies in tampering the adminis- enforcement officer of and obstructration and the country,” asserting tion. has been a his dominance over Barr’s comstaunch dements about the judicial system. fender of T r u m p ’ s Trump’s poltweets came icy decisions. during an inBut considerterview with ing resigning from his post ABC News just days after suggests he sees the Justice his Justice Department Department’s reputation as overruled its own prosan institution that makes ecutors — who had recomdecisions on criminal cases mended in a court filing independently, unmoved that Stone be sentenced and unbound by political to seven to nine years in sway, as more important prison — and took the exthan his allegiance to the traordinary step of lowerpresident. ing the amount of prison Trump tweeted on Tues- time it would seek. All four

prosecutors from Stone’s trial quit the case and one left the Justice Department altogether.

The reversal came after Trump blasted the original sentencing recommendation as “very horrible and unfair,” though officials have insisted the decision to make a new recommendation came before Trump’s tweet.

“I’m happy to say that, in fact, the president has never asked me to do anything in a criminal case,” Barr said in the ABC News interview. “However, to have public statements and tweets made about the department, about our people ... about cases pending in the department, and about judges before whom we have cases, make it impossible for me to do my job and to assure the courts and the prosecutors in the department that we’re doing our work with integrity.”

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in the car’s path, The Kansas City Star reported.

“We teach our students at Christ the King to know that we are here to protect them and they need to listen,” Fithian said. “We’re just so blessed that he was there.”

The guard always put the children first, and some students had given him gifts for Valentine’s Day, she said.

The man, who was hired through the city, retired from a different career before becoming a crossing guard in 2015, Unified Government spokesman Dave Reno said.

“I offer my deepest sympathies to the family of the Crossing Guard, and I offer our gratitude on behalf of our residents for his selfless sacrifice in protecting our children,” Mayor/CEO David Alvey said in a news release.

The driver of a black sedan that hit the guard was taken to a hospital.

The investigation is continuing.

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promising to complete all but one of the 21 projects abandoned during a budget crisis that followed tax cuts passed under Republican Sam Brownback when he was governor.

Half of the $10 billion Kelly proposes spending over the next 10 years is earmarked for maintenance work.

“We must close the ‘Bank of KDOT’ and make sure that funding for transportation is spent on transportation,” Kelly said last when announcing the program.

That means no more raids on the pool of money earmarked for transportation.

Those raids were commonplace during the Brownback administration. With tax revenues plummeting, Brownback and lawmakers diverted about $2 billion to plug gaping holes in the state budget.

Kelly has slowed the transfers and pledged to end them by 2023.

Limited money for big projects

Breaking with precedent, Kelly isn’t committing to a set list of highway projects. Instead, said KDOT Secretary Julie Lorenz, a handful of projects will be selected every two years based on what the agency concludes are the most urgent needs.

Doing that, she said, will give the agency the flexibility it needs to respond to emerging issues and “make good investments that stand the test of time.”

At the moment, Lorenz said, nothing is more urgent than expanding a section of U.S. 69 that cuts through the Johnson County community of Overland Park. It’s the busiest stretch of four-lane highway in the state.

More than 80,000 daily commuters regularly transform it into a virtual parking lot during the morning and evening rush hours.

“In terms of congestion on a four-lane highway, it’s the worst in the state,” Lorenz said. “It gets a grade of ‘F’ today and it gets worse in the future if we don’t do something about it.”

Engineering a solution isn’t a problem, finding a way to pay for

A construction worker paints stripes along U.S. 169 south of Iola in December 2018. Gov. Laura Kelly has recently announced a highway funding plan for the state. REGISTER FILE PHOTO it is, said Carl Gerlach, the mayor of Overland Park.

Adding express lanes that motorists would have to pay to use is likely the only way to get the proposed $300 million project done quickly, he said.

“If we don’t do something unique and different like tolling, we may have to wait ten,13,14 years before we get U.S. 69 expanded,” Gerlach said. “Can we do that? I don’t think so.”

The express lanes would likely be built in between the existing northbound and southbound lanes. Drivers would use electronic gadgets like those that automatically record their tolls on the Kansas Turnpike.

Express lanes have a mixed record. Still, research done by the Institute of Transportation Studies at the University of California-Los Angeles found that toll lanes can be a cost-effective way to reduce traffic congestion. They’re more effective than simply adding more “free” lanes to existing roads or expanding mass transit.

“Pricing reduces congestion,” ITS researchers said in a recent report. “Nothing else does.”

Under Kansas law, you can’t charge tolls on existing highways. Just new ones.

To add express lanes on U.S. 69, state and local officials would have to produce a study that they would both ease congestion and partially pay for themselves.

Lorenz thinks the

project can be finished more quickly by putting it on a regulatory and logistical fast-track.

So, she wants to start construction while engineers are still working on the design, rather than waiting until all the blueprints get drafted and approved.

KDOT used that process for the first time on a massive interchange in Johnson County finished in 2017. It connects Interstates 35 and 435 with Kansas 10.

“We shaved a year off that schedule and we got 12% more project … for the dollars,” she said.

Using the faster process to deliver the U.S. 69 project, Lorenz said, would save more than money.

“For every year that we delay in building your project, folks sit in traffic five million hours,” she said.

Balancing urban and rural needs

While many of the state’s most pressing transportation needs are in urban and suburban centers, Lorenz said there’s also money in the plan for road projects in rural Kansas. But, she said, not enough to satisfy the desire for fourlane highways everywhere local officials are clamoring for them.

Southwest Kansas is a case in point. Residents there say heavy truck traffic to massive meatpacking facilities in Garden City, Dodge City and

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“If you travel on Highway 83, you … would not believe all the trucks,” said Beth Tedrow, a Garden City Community College trustee, at a meeting with state lawmakers from the region just prior to the state of the 2020 legislative session.

Officials in the region

can make a case for a four-lane highway, Lorenz said, but the state simply doesn’t have the money to build one unless communities in the region can cover a substantial portion of the cost.

“So, I’m working hard to sell passing lanes,” Lorenz said.

In addition to being cheaper to build and maintain, she said, passing lanes “provide an enormous safety benefit.”

A recent KDOT study that evaluated the effectiveness of the passing lanes along a section of U.S. 400 in southeast Kansas showed they reduced crashes by 32%.

If a community that wants a four-lane is willing to accept passing lanes as an intermediate step, that increases the chances for state funding, Lorenz said.

“We will give them bonus points, if you will, additional consideration,” she said.

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Trump of using his unfettered pardon power “to shield unrepentant felons, racists and corrupt scoundrels.”

Blagojevich was convicted on charges of political corruption, including seeking to sell an appointment to former President Barack Obama’s old Senate seat and trying to shake down a children’s hospital.

But Trump said the former governor had been subjected to a “ridiculous sentence” that didn’t fit his crimes.

“That was a tremendously powerful, ridiculous sentence, in my opinion and in the opinion of many others,” he said.

Trump confirmed the pardons on an air base tarmac as he left Washington for a West Coast visit. He said he had yet to think about pardoning his longtime confidant Roger Stone, who is scheduled to be sentenced Thursday, or granting clemency to several former aides who have ended up in legal jeopardy, including his former cam-

paign chairman Paul Manafort and disgraced former national security adviser Mike Flynn.

But he made clear anew that he is sympathetic to their cases.

“Somebody has to stick up for the people,” Trump said. As for Stone, in particular, he added: “You’re going to see what happens. I think he’s treated unfairly.”

Former Manhattan Assistant U.S. Attorney Mimi Rocah said the pardons sends a message that corruption is OK and “signal to his friends who are facing investigations or prosecutions for white collar crimes ... that Trump has their back.”

Indeed, Pascrell predicted that, following Trump’s acquittal by the Republican-controlled Senate, “outrageous abuses like these will accelerate and worsen.”

In Illinois, current Gov. J.B. Pritzker, a Democrat, said in a statement that Trump “has abused his pardon power in inexplicable ways to reward his friends and condone corruption, and I deep-

ly believe this pardon sends the wrong message at the wrong time.”

Republicans in the state echoed his criticism of the Blagojevich action.

Many of the pardons announced Tuesday were advocated by wellheeled friends of the president, including Sheldon Adelson, the billionaire casino magnate, Tom Barrack, a longtime Trump confidant and the chairman of his inaugural committee, and Fox News personality Maria Bartiromo.

Milken’s advocates, for example, included all of the above — along with Rudy Giuliani, the president’s personal attorney. It was Giuliani who charged Milken with 98 felony counts, including racketeering, insider trading and securities fraud, when he served as the top federal prosecutor in New York City in 1989.

“He paid a big price, paid a very tough price,” Trump said of Milken, who was among a small group of GOP mega donors who spent Election Night 2018 at the White House, according to me-

dia reports.

Blagojevich’s case had been championed by his wife, Patti, who went on a media blitz in 2018. Appearing on Trump favorite Fox News, she encouraged him to step in, likening the investigation of her husband to special prosecutor Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election.

And relatives of Paul Pogue, the owner of a construction company found guilty of underpaying his taxes, whom Trump also pardoned, have donated large sums to Trump’s reelection campaign.

But Trump also commuted the sentences of several women more representative of the flood of requests that presidents typically receive.

Judith Negron, 48, had been serving 35 years at a Florida prison for health care fraud, conspiracy and money laundering when she was released Tuesday.

“It’s hard to put in words. I’m so excited.

I yelled, screamed and cried. We are just filled

with happiness and gratitude,” said Yamilla Cruz Estrada, Negron’s sister, thanking Trump for answering the family’s prayers.

“I’m indebted to him for the rest of my life because he gave me my family back,” Judith’s husband, Hector Negron, told The Associated Press.

Her case, like several others, had been championed by criminal justice reform advocates like Alice Marie Johnson, whose life sentence Trump commuted in 2018 at the urging of reality TV star Kim Kardashian West and whose story Trump’s reelection campaign featured in a recent Super Bowl ad.

Johnson told the AP that the president had been looking specifically for female candidates, and asked her for a list of other women who deserved clemency during a criminal justice conference at historically black Benedict College.

“Kim made a difference going to the White House fighting for me, so if I can fight for something I definitely wasn’t

going to turn that opportunity down,” Johnson said.

Holly Harris, president of the criminal justice group Justice Action Network, applauded Trump “for taking these steps,” but said she hoped to see him use his power to help “any of the thousands of deserving individuals who are neither rich, nor famous, nor connected” and “every bit as deserving of a second chance.”

Ohio Pastor Darrell Scott, who had advocated for DeBartolo Jr.’s pardon and announced Trump’s decision Tuesday surrounded by a handful of football greats, said that when he first brought the case to the White House, the administration was consumed with other matters, including the Mueller investigation.

Now that impeachment is over, he said, Trump has time to focus on other matters.

“We finally get to breathe for the first time before something else comes,” he said. “I think they’re trying to play catch up.”

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Wildcats battle in loss to Chetopa

By RICHARD LUKEN The Iola Register

MORAN — While they’ve not tasted victory on the basketball court this season, Marmaton Valley High’s Wildcats have made small, but steady steps to a brighter future, head coach Gavin Cole said.

“It’s a process,” Cole said Tuesday, after the latest setback, a 47-33 defeat against visiting Chetopa. “We’re improving. It’s happening.”

Marmaton Valley played Chetopa to a virtual standstill after the first half.

Bo Knavel’s free throws in the waning seconds of the second quarter pushed Marmaton Valley on top 23-22 before the Hornets scored at the buzzer to take a halftime lead.

Things went south in the third quarter. Chetopa opened the half with a 12-2 run to push the lead to double digits.

But while Marmaton Valley kept the Hornets from breaking away even further, the Wildcats couldn’t muster enough offense to make things interesting.

The Wildcats scored only six points in the third frame; four in the fourth.

“We still turn the ball over too much,” Cole said. “When we weren’t turning it over, we were getting decent looks. We just didn’t finish. We weren’t able to get to the free throw line in the second half. We just got weak with the ball in multiple ways.

“We spent halftime talking about how we wanted to attack that 1-3-1 (defense),” he continued. “We executed a couple of times, but not as many as we would have liked.”

It was a far cry from the first half in which the Wildcats led, 8-5, after one quarter, then rebounded after ChetoSee WILDCATS | Page B2

Iola’s Becca Sprague goes up for a shot against Osawatomie on Tuesday. REGISTER/ERICK MITCHELL

FILLIES TROUNCE TROJANS

By ERICK MITCHELL The Iola Register

OSAWATOMIE — February has been a long month for the Iola Fillies. After enjoying a three-game winning streak

in January, the Fillies had lost four consecutive games entering Tuesday’s matchup in Osaawatomie.

In fact, the last time the Iola girls won was on Jan. 31, in a 41-35 rout of Osawatomie.

The Fillies repeated that effort against the Trojans on Tuesday with 39-27 victory.

“We needed that one,” Iola head coach Becky Carlson said. “The girls just seemed like they were never going to

lose.”

The Fillies held a slim 7-5 advantage after the first period after a pair of treys from Hannah Gardner and Kelsey Morrison. But the sharp See FILLIES | Page B2

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Mustangs drop nail-biter at Osawatomie

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Iola’s Cal Leonard shoots over an Osawatomie defender to give the Mustangs a late 48-47 lead. Iola lost 53-50. REGISTER/ERICK MITCHELL

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OSAWATOMIE — Luke Bycroft, head coach for the Iola Mustangs, knows he’s going to have to better prepare his boys for playing on the road.

On Tuesday, the Mustangs lost by one point at Osawatomie, home of the Trojans, despite winning in a 20-point blowout back in Iola earlier in the season. The Mustangs secured a 64-44 win over Osawatomie on Jan 31.

And coming off a 79-59 win over Anderson County, the Mustangs regained their position at No. 10 in the class 4A state rankings.

Frustratingly, every time Iola has been ranked this sea-

son, they’ve lost their next game. On Tuesday, the Trojans defeated the Mustangs 53-50.

“It’s about having the right mindset,” Bycroft said. “We think that we are good and that things are going to be easy and not have to outwork somebody.

“But we have to outwork somebody every night. We are better than these teams, but if we don’t outwork them, they are going to beat us.”

Picking up from where he left off on Friday after scoring a season-high 32 points, Landon Carson scored Iola’s first eight points off a steal and fast-break score followed by a pair of 3-pointers. But the Trojans didn’t back down.

Osawatomie connected on five first-half treys, including four from Chris Pursley to lead by six heading into the second.

Iola failed to find any fluidity to its offense in the second quarter, being outpaced by two to trail 28-20 at intermission. The Mustang failure to close out on Pursley at the perimeter put Iola in a hole it could have avoided.

“We could have gone out and guarded those guys and got them off the line,” Bycroft said. “We sat there and let them catch and shoot. We are supposed to make them out the ball on the floor, and force it into our help defense.”

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capped off by a jumper from Leonard in traffic gave Iola its first lead since the first quarter.

The Mustangs fouled Osawatomie on their next defensive possession, and the Trojans sank both charities to regain a one-point edge.

Iola was forced to foul after a turnover, but regained possession after the first attempt of a 1-and-1. Bycroft called a timeout, and drew up

failed to fire up the Mustangs in the second half. The Trojans executed a 10-4 run, taking a 14-point lead in the early stages of the second half. Iola fought back after a pair of buckets from Cal Leonard to trail 42-34 heading into the fourth.

Down 47-40 with 5:11 remaining, the Mustangs began their comeback. An 8-0 run

MV girls lose Griffith in loss MORAN — Marmaton Valley High’s girls may have lost more than a basketball game Tuesday.

The Wildcats lost the services of Bailey Griffith, their leading scorer and only senior, with a knee injury in the first half.

The offense grew stagnant after that, although the Wildcats clawed back to within three down the stretch in a 40-34 defeat.

The loss drops Marmaton Valley to 8-11 on the season. The Wildcats will wrap up the regular season Friday at Southeast of Cherokee before Class 1A regional action begins next week. First round pairings were to be announced today.

Griffith started out Tuesday’s contest like gangbusters, scoring nine of the Wildcats’ 13 points in the first quarter.

After she exited, Marmaton Valley struggled but stayed close.

Chetopa hit a late 3-pointer in the second quarter to take a 21-18 lead into intermission, then opened the second half with three more treys to take control.

Marmaton Valley still managed to force the Hornets’ stingers to tighten up down the stretch.

Alyson Ard’s baseline jumper with 2:15 left pulled Marmaton Valley within 35-30. Samantha Blundell scored for Chetopa to re-establish a seven-point lead, which was answered with two more free throws from Ard. Chetopa came up dry on its next possession, and Marmaton Valley’s Kaylee Becker converted a steal and layup with under a minute left to cut the deficit to 37-34.

But Blundell got open beyond the Wildcat press for a basket with 38 seconds left. A Wildcat turnover led to a MaKayle Moore free throw for the final margin.

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Sherry Bagshaw was uncertain of the severity of Griffith’s knee injury after the game, “but it looked bad,” she said.

“I thought the girls did a nice job of rebounding after the shell-shock of losing your leading scorer,” Bagshaw said. “We had girls step up for us.

“This will be a test of our character,” she said.

“It’s going to be a challenge for us, but we’re up for it.”

The loss was Marmaton Valley’s second in a row after a four-game winning streak.

BOX SCORE

Chetopa (11-10-8-11— 40) (FG/3pt): Moore 1-1-1-3, Ross 0/1-0-2-3, Albertson 0/1-0-1-3, Pierce 0-0-1-0, Blundell 6-2-4-14, Johnson 0-0-1-0, Conard 3/3-2-3-17.

TOTALS: 10/5-5-13-40.

Marmaton Valley (13-55-11—34): Griffith 4-1-0-9, Lawson 1-0-1-2, Bracken 2-0-0-4, M. Ard 3-2-1-8, Scharff 0-0-4-0, A. Ard 2-32-7, Becker 1-2-2-4. TOTALS: 13-8-10-34.

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in the second. The efficient 3-point shooting combined with a stout defense sent the Fillies into the break ahead 21-12.

“Their guards are really their key players, but we can really guard well on defense,” Carlson said. “I thought Kunkler, Kelsey (Morrison), and Hannah gave

shooting didn’t stop there.

With the game neckand-neck at 7-7 halfway through through the period, Iola caught fire from deep. Elysia Kunkler, Lauryn Holloway and Gaby Lampe connected from beyond the arc, helping the Fillies grow their lead

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Marmaton Valley wraps up the regular season Friday at Southeast of Cherokee. Class 1A postseason play begins next week.

BOX SCORE Chetopa (5-19-176—47) (FG/3pt): Wright 6/2-0-3-18, Scott 1-0-12, Pease 2-0-4-4, Vanatta 0-0-1-0, Duggan 3-1-3-7, Beck 4-1-2-9, Albertson 0/2-1-4-7. TOTALS: 16/43-18-47.

Marmaton Valley (815-6-4—33): Drake 4-2-010, Cook 0-1-1-1, Adams 1-1-3-3, Woods 2-0-4-4, Scharff 5-1-3-11, Knavel 1-2-2-4. TOTALS: 13-7-1333.

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in with 10 points. Sophomore Quincy Adams pulled in five boards.

Connor Wright scored 18 to lead Chetopa.

Cole remained bullish about his team’s prospects.

“Most people say, ‘I bet you’re miserable with a winless season,’” he said. “I’m not at all. Working with this group of kids, and seeing them make improvements has been great. They really put the time in. They want it.

“We keep talking about stacking up the little things,” he said.

“Once they stack up high enough, it’ll lead

pa opened the second period with a 12-1 run.

Senior Ty Scharff was the primary catalyst, scoring 11 points before the break on senior night.

“Ty has put together a couple of nice games for us this week,” Cole said. “I can’t say enough about our seniors (Scharff and Knavel, who played despite being hobbled with an ankle injury.) I can’t say enough about what they’ve put into this.

They’re good leaders; good kids.”

Scharff wound up with 11 points and 11 rebounds.

Freshman Dylan Drake chipped

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a play for point guard Calvin Delich, but his left-handed floater in the lane missed, forcing another Iola foul with less than 15 seconds to go.

The Trojans misfired at the line, but controlled the rebound as Iola was forced to foul once more. Osawatomie sunk both attempts to take a 53-50 lead with

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them fits. Then we had Josie (Plumlee) and Ella (Taylor) come in, and they D-up.”

Becca Sprague led the Fillies in the second half, scoring eight of her team-high 10 points after intermission. The Fillies continued to add to their lead in the third. Iola led by as many as 13 after a deuce from Sprague.

Iola led 29-17 heading into the fourth.

Iola enjoyed a double-digit lead throughout the fourth quarter.

Their only scare was Morrison going down with a twisted ankle with 5:30 remaining.

Although The Fillies’ leader didn’t return, Carlson expects her to be fit for next week’s final two games of the regular season.

The Fillies will be off for the rest of the week.

Iola will conclude its regular season at Wellsville on Tuesday, and Santa Fe Trail on Thursday. Despite it being late in the season, Carlson is still eager to see more improvement.

“We just need to get sharper on offense, but tonight I felt that we didn’t have the lag we do sometimes,” Carlson said.

YOUNG FILLIES

The freshman/sophomore Fillies defeated Osawatomie 34-25. Aysha Houk finished as the Fillies’ leading scorer with 14 points. Elanie Sturgeon chipped in six points, Maci Miller scored four, Caiden Cloud and Reece Murry added three apiece, and Miah Shelby along with Halle McDermeit finished with two points each.

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One of them is Marc Schultz, who was convicted of manslaughter for hitting and killing a cyclist while driving drunk in 2010.

“I will forever live with the burden of taking a man’s life for a decision that I made,” Schultz said Monday.

“But I didn’t intend for this to happen.”

He wants lawmakers to amend Kansas’ registry rules, and a committee forwarded two bills Monday to the full House. The legislation would scale back penalties that have grown in recent years — serious felonies and additional prison time can follow something as minor as not registering a new Instagram account or getting a new tattoo.

Some people wouldn’t stay on the registry as long, either.

“I think we’ve moved closer to what’s done nationally,” Republican Rep. Russ Jennings said. He’s the chair of the House Corrections and Juvenile Justice Committee. “There’s no evidence that suggests it provides for greater public safety. Most of it’s anecdotal.”

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He said the registry is a “scarlet letter” that makes it harder to find A state website shows all the registered offenders within one work. Plus, he mile of the Kansas Statehouse. SCREENSHOT FROM THE KANSAS said, filling the BUREAU OF INVESTIGATIONS' WEBSITE list with too many offendimpact some of the County Sheriff Jeff ers is making it less more than 4,100 people Easter, representing useful for the public. on the drug-crime reg- the Kansas Sheriff ’s “When people look istry. Those who are Association, opposed at that map they don’t convicted of crimes the original plan to know the difference like distribution would make some drug regisbetween the dots that face a five-year regis- tries unavailable to the they see,” he said. tration term instead of public.

Jennifer Roth, co- the current 15 years.

“Shouldn’t citizens chair of the Kansas AsRoth said the penal- be allowed to know that sociation of Criminal ties for not updating a convicted drug dealer Defense Lawyers, told registrations should has moved into their lawmakers earlier this be reduced because the neighborhood?” Easter month that it’s time to current felony charges said in testimony. back off the rules. are too severe.

The committee “We’re talking about “That’s the same as amended the bill so the people getting charged aggravated arson or drug convictions would for things that are mi- an involuntary man- stay on the public regnor,” Roth said. “It slaughter or an ag- istry. doesn’t matter if some- gravated robbery,” she Still, Easter said, thing is minor or some- said. “That makes no some registration rules thing is major. It’s all sense.” do need to be changed. treated the same.”

State officials say He said there should The details the changes would be a way to reduce the One of the bills would have a quick effect on time someone is on the reduce some penal- the state’s prison sys- registry if they are ties for not registering tem, which has been complying with the properly. It would also stretched to the point rules. take longer to rack up that hundreds of in“There needs to be additional violations, mates were recently some type of exit stratgoing from the current shipped to Arizona. egy,” he said. “How 30 days to 90 days. And They estimate there’d do we get them off of courts could waive the be 130 fewer people in the offender registry $20 registration fee for prison by 2030. quicker?” people who can’t afford Law enforcement them. opposed these changLearn more at Another bill would es, though. Sedgwick ksnewsservice.org.

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The quarantine’s flop was underlined as authorities announced 79 more cases, bringing the total on the ship to 621.

Results were still pending for some other passengers and crew among the original 3,711 people on board.

Japan’s government has been questioned over its decision to keep people on the ship, which some experts have called a perfect virus incubator.

The Diamond Princess is the site of the most infections outside of China, where the illness named COVID-19 emerged late last year.

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Change your perspective to deal with conflict Dear Carolyn: I love my significant other, but I also love my family, both nuclear and extended. We are a tightknit group in which everyone shares a similar quirky sense of humor, and as immigrants (and children of immigrants) we have supported each other through many hardships. They are my village.

My significant other does not understand this, as she comes from a more traditional American family in which young adults are encouraged to launch and distance themselves from the family unit. I am worried about how this will play out over the years.

We are not going to have children — and by the way, we’re both women — but I can see it’s going to cause conflict. Do you have any suggestions for preempting those conflicts? Is it possible for one half of a couple to remain part of another family unit without sacrificing the primacy of the relationship? — Family vs. SO Family vs.

SO: You’ve made a false causal connection here,

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and you need to break it before you make a significant mistake with your life.

Your partner fails to understand AND comes from a more traditional American family. She doesn’t fail to understand BECAUSE she comes from a traditional American family.

Being of one thing does not prevent the understanding of, embrace of, encouragement of or even just lovingly-passive-andmystified acceptance of something different.

A partner raised in a “launch” culture is still quite capable of seeing the merits of a culture that encourages generations to stay close. In fact, finding the launch ethos a bit frosty can drive people raised within it to partner across cultures with someone more familycentric. And vice versa, as the overly enmeshed seek some air.

So don’t see your

partner as culturally unable to support — or, even better, to adopt and take part in — your family’s tight knitting.

Instead, see the full truth: that she prefers her ways. She sees your ways (maybe not fully, but that can be willful, too), and prefers her culture of origin.

Just as you see hers, clearly, and prefer yours.

Why does this distinction matter? Because seeing her as unable to understand makes it a thing neither you nor she can really control. It’s an invitation for you to tell yourself, “Oh well, she doesn’t get it, I’ll have to work harder to balance couple time with my family time.”

See it as her cleareyed choice, though, and the work ahead shifts — appropriately — from you alone to both of you: “We both understand the differences, we both prefer our own way of handling family. So are we both willing to let the other do what comes naturally, without expecting, bean-counting and guilt-tripping?”

In other words, will she love that you remain devoted to your

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Will you resent her for skipping a lot of your family stuff ? Will you pressure her to join you?

Will you both always be grateful for the differences between you, for the benefits they afford? Or will each of you always be wishing the other were more like you?

If you talk to your significant other about this, openly, owning what you want and won’t budge on — then you won’t preempt all conflicts, of course.

But you will catch the avoidable ones before they age into regrets.

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Baseball leagues donate $1 million to Negro Leagues Museum KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Major League Baseball celebrated the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Negro National League by joining with the Major League Baseball Players Association to announce their second joint $1 million donation to the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum, “It commemorates baseball history, and it’s a tribute to AfricanAmerican entrepreneurship in the culture that existed at the time,”

baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred said Thursday.

The privately financed museum was founded in 1990 and moved into its current facility in 1994.

The Negro National League, the first Negro major league, was founded by eight entrepreneurs at the Paseo YMCA in the eastern part of Kansas City.

Part of the donation will be used to help renovate the YMCA building that will house the Buck O’Neil Education and

Research Center. The museum had spent more than $100,000 on the renovation when the building was damaged in 2018.

“Unfortunately, someone vandalized the building, derailing a lot of work that had gone on in this building,” said Bob Kendrick, the museum’s executive director. “It was important for us to come back into this space. We didn’t want the haters to have the last laugh.”

Negro Leagues operated from 1920 through

1951, four years after Jackie Robinson broke the MLB color barrier.

“It’s not just about the money,” Manfred said.

“A number of our teams are playing special tribute throughout the year.

There will be features on all our platforms about the Negro Leagues. Maybe most important is the educational effort that is going to take place in our youth programs.”

The event kicked off a yearlong celebration called “A Game-Changing Century.” All big

league teams will wear a patch honoring the history of the Negro Leagues on June 27.

“The history of the Negro Leagues is bigger than baseball,” new Kansas City Royals owner John Sherman said.

“When I walk through the museum I think of the courage of those people. Their story of resiliency is about change that still hasn’t reached the finish line.”

Frank White, an eight-time Gold Glove winner who played for

the Royals from 1973-90, grew up in the neighborhood and joined the YMCA in that building.

He learned from players who started in the Negro Leagues, such as Hank Aaron, Willie Mays, Ernie Banks, Satchel Paige, Monte Irvin and Don Newcombe.

“I can’t tell you how many basketball games I played here,” said White, now the executive of Jackson County in Missouri. “It’s neat to see this building, and this area, coming back.”

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The only player to make his big league debut in the World Series, the 24-year-old Mondesi has blossomed into an emerging star for the Kansas City Royals.

Last season, his 10 triples tied for the most in the majors and his 43 stolen bases ranked second. He did that despite injuries limiting him to 102 games.

In 2018, Mondesi became the only player to record at least 14 home runs and steal 32 bases in no more than 75 games. “I don’t think the baseball world has any idea how good this kid can be,� Royals manager Mike Matheny said.

“Just look at some of the best shortstops and some of the ones that are getting the most attention and this guy can do everything they do and then some. He’s a special player and he’s a special person.�

Mondesi went on the injured list twice last year with a groin strain and left shoulder trouble.

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Royals’ Adalberto Mondesi watches his triple in the first inning as the Kansas City Royals play the Minnesota Twins in April 2019. JILL TOYOSHIBA/KANSAS CITY STAR/TNS we can,� Matheny said. “He’s in great shape right now. The training staff really did an amazing job. I salute Adalberto for spending the whole winter in Kansas City, being committed,� he said. “When you have a place in the Caribbean, you can go back and call home and have a little more sunshine. He did what he needed to do to get in a really good place right now.�

Matheny wants him not to be diving so much.

He also was on the injured list in 2018 with a shoulder injury. “We’re already having the conversation when we get into game situations where we’ve got to shorten up your leads to where you’re not diving back head first, that’s

what we’re going to do,�

Matheny said. “We’re simulating games back here where we take that competition level just down a bit. “We’re going to work on balls deep into the hole, let’s work on a slide play where you have almost your maximum range to be able to make a play, but take a little stress off that shoulder.

And two, I think there’s a maturity process of understanding game situations. We’re up six runs and there’s a ball in the hole, his instincts are telling him, ‘I can make this play,’ but understanding the risk and reward. Is this the right play at this particular time?� “We never want to back guys off, but how

can we do it just a little smarter is the way to go,� he said.

Mondesi is the son of Raul Mondesi who was the 1994 NL Rookie of the Year and played 13 years in the majors.

In the 2015 World Series, the younger Mondesi made his first major league appearance, striking out as a pinch-hitter against the New York Mets. “We’ve got to get him healthy first,� Royals perennial Gold Glove left fielder Alex Gordon said. “We saw bits and pieces of his talent last year, but the injury interfered with it, but the talent is probably the best I’ve seen. It’s just about him getting out there and being healthy and staying on the field.�

Osawatomie edges Stangs late Continued from B2

7.5 seconds left, giving Iola one more shot to take the game into overtime, but Leonard’s 3-point attempt rimmed out just before the buzzer.

The loss moves Iola to 5-5 in Pioneer League play. “Part of the problem is that we don’t respect

them as being a good team,� Bycroft said. “So when we come here, we think they are going to roll over and play dead, but obviously that is not the case,� said Bycroft.

Iola will be on the road for its final two games of the regular season.

The Mustangs travel to Wellsville on Tuesday, followed by Santa Fe

Trail on Thursday.

BOX SCORE

Iola (13-7-14-16—50) (pts): Bycroft 4, Adams 2, Leonard 15, Cole 8, Carson 19, Delich 2.

Osawatomie (19-9-1411—53) (pts): Smith 2, Pursley 17, Cole 7, Timblin 4, Carver 7, Fields 2, Jones 14.

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