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By VICKIE MOSS The Iola Register

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Humboldt girl donates to CASA

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LAHARPE — LaHarpe resident Cierra Wynn is tired of renting. It’s difficult to find affordable homes in good shape.

So when she learned of Saturday’s LaHarpe Home Fair, Wynn saw an opportunity to find out what it might take to start the process of building or buying a home through a special USDA housing loan.“This sounds like a wonderful thing for people,” Wynn said.

The Home Fair brought together representatives from USDA, local banks, construction companies, city officials, Thrive Allen County and more to discuss options for building a home in LaHarpe.

LaHarpe Pride organized the event. Pride member Richard Luken recapped some of the recent improvements to LaHarpe, including its park and annual citywide cleanup events, as well as the benefits of small-town living just a few minutes from Iola.

Luken also talked about the incentives the City of LaHarpe offers to encour-

Marcia Davis, community development director for Thrive Allen County, helps Cierra Wynn fill out an online application to see if she is pre-approved for a rural housing loan through the USDA. Davis was among volunteers who organized the LaHarpe Home Fair, providing information about options to buy or build homes in LaHarpe. REGISTER/VICKIE MOSS age home building, including bringing utilities to the property at no charge and a program that offers rebates for property taxes.

He also outlined two loan programs offered by the USDA, the Direct Rural Home Loan and the Guaranteed Ru-

ral Housing Program. Each allows borrowers to finance new, energy-efficient homes with minimal interest rates — currently around 3% — and with no down payment.

Borrowers cannot exceed income limits, such as $49,200 for a family of four to qualify

for the Direct loan, or $82,700 for a family of four through the Guaranteed Rural Housing Program.

Luken estimated a borrower who builds a $100,000-plus See HOMES | Page A4

The cemetery on the bluff

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alfway inbetween U.S. 54 and Toronto near the banks of Cedar Creek rests perhaps the oldest cemetery in Woodson County, with its first pioneer-era grave dating back to 1857.

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An independent report suggests three ways to improve how the state’s electric utilities rates are set. BRIAN GRIMMETT/KANSAS NEWS SERVICE FILE PHOTO/KCUR.ORG

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This is the view from atop Cedar Bluff north of Toronto and near the hidden Pioneer Cemetery. REGISTER/TREVOR HOAG

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Once called Pleasant Grove, it has been rechristened Cedar Bluff, due to the immense sandstone rock-face hiding behind it to the west.

At one time there were few trees in the area, and it was possible to look out over this vantage for miles across the Verdigris Valley.

In order to reach Cedar Bluff, I hitched a ride with locals Getty Tyner and Jessica Valentine.

She smiles easily, gestures excitedly, and does most of the talking. He seems intensely focused on driving, but briefly interjects now and again, though his hushed and graveled See BLUFFS | Page A2

Analysts: Electric rate-making system tilted in favor of utilities

By BRIAN GRIMMETT Kansas News Service

An independent review of Kansas’ rising electricity prices shows the current system for setting rates could use some improvements.

In a lengthy report requested by state legislators and submitted by London Economics, analysts concluded three main things: The current ratemaking process has been slightly balanced in favor of utilities, regulators are limited in their ability to protect consumers from paying for underused investments (such as aging coal plants), and additional bill surcharges and have been a key driver of rising rates.

The report looked at rates from all Kansas electric utilities — from co-ops to municipals to Evergy, the largest utility in the state with about 1.5 million customers.

“There are some nearterm recommendations,” Evergy Chief Customer Officer Chuck Caisley said. “But the report doesn’t say, ‘Do this and rates will go down’ on any page, any graph, any appendix in the entire thing.”

Lawmakers requested the study in a bill passed during the 2019 legislative session, saying at the time that they were concerned electricity prices were no longer competitive with neighboring states.

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Around Town Community Calendar

MONDAY — LaHarpe PRIDE Committee meeting, 7 p.m., LaHarpe City Hall. — Legislative forum, sponsored by Allen County Farm Bureau, 5:30 p.m., Iola Senior Center, 204 N. Jefferson.

TUESDAY — Fry Street Quartet: American Women Composers, 7 p.m., Creitz Recital Hall at the Bowlus Fine Arts Center. — Allen County Commission meeting, 8:30 a.m., Allen County Courthouse. — Iola Kiwanis Club, noon, Allen Community College.

THURSDAY — Rotary Club, noon, Allen Community College. — TOPS No. KS 880 4:30 p.m. weigh in, 5 p.m. meeting, Calvary United Methodist Church. — Family Fun Night, 5:30 p.m., McKinley Elementary School. — American Sign Language class, beginners 6 to 7 p.m., advanced 7 to 8 p.m. Humanity House, 110 East St.

FRIDAY — Senior Citizens Card Club potluck dinner, 5:30 p.m., senior citizens center.

SUNDAY — Grief Share Support Group, 4 p.m., First Baptist Church, 801 N. Cottonwood.

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Humboldt girl donates toys, clothes for CASA It started as an effort to downsize her toy collection.

By the time Tessa Lou Francis finished, she had more than $350 to give away to a local charity.

Francis, daughter of Tim and Kelly Francis of Humboldt, celebrated the holidays with a gift to the Court Appointed Special Advocates.

The impetus, according to a CASA news release, was a suggestion

by Tessa Lou’s parents to have her “downsize� her toy collection before Christmas and get rid of toys she had outgrown.

Tessa Lou decided to go one step further. She hoped to sell many of her toys and clothes to

benefit youngsters less fortunate.

A garage sale was successful, but still the family wanted to do more, so Kelly began selling toys and items via Facebook and other social media outlets.

Tessa Lou also knew where she wanted her money to go.

Her parents, Joe and Mary Francis are CASA volunteers who advocate on behalf of foster kids.

So in December, Tessa Lou took with her $354.44 in cash plus bags of candy to the CASA office.

The money was used to buy additional gifts for foster kids, CASA officials noted.

CASA’s Aimee Daniels accepts donations from Tessa Lou Francis of Humboldt. COURTESY PHOTO

Grief support group returns Weekly grief share support group sessions will return at 4 p.m., Sunday at Iola’s First Baptist Church, 801 N. Cottonwood St..

The seminars will cover a wide range of topics over the next 13 weeks, from the journey and lessons of grief, guilt and anger and, complicating factors and more.

For more information, call David and Laura Tidd at (620) 380-1259.

DAR gathers Cofachique Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution members, from left, Marcia Longberg, Cynthia Geisler, Linda Johnson, Judy Arbeiter, Deborah Jackson, Barbara McIntosh, Beverly Miller, Linda Rubow, Nancy Castellucci and Nelda Cuppy met Saturday at the Humboldt Public Library.

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voice is often difficult to understand.

The ash from their cigarettes slowly burns and takes flight as we approach the gate leading back into the pasture, and I wonder how the bouncing of the truck doesn’t spark a fire in the cab. Getty said he remembers when there were farms in these fields, both to the north and south of here. It’s clear his memory is deep, that he has ghosts of his own, and so is unsure of exactly what details to narrate.

Getting set ablaze, however, is not nearly as random and absurd a fate as that of the first person buried here. A young man by the last name of Foster, who’d been living at the Carlisle Branch settlement to the south of Toronto, was riding his horse up to Pleasant Grove when it happened.

Tearing through the cross-leafed post oaks on his mare at breakneck speed, he leaned one direction while his horse leaned the other, just in time to cause his head and face to strike a nearby tree. Dead.

Just like that. I wonder if he’s watching us bounce along the dirt road. I wonder if he’s frustrated or simply bored.

Despite whatever audience might be present, we jump out and start to take a look. Most of the sandstone markers are worn and difficult to read, but that doesn’t dampen our spirits.

Jessica and I kneel at the grave of someone I have long been curious to meet. Julius Wilhite was born in 1797 and died in 1860, which makes his stone, a white marble slab, one of the very oldest in Woodson County. His relation, J.W., also buried here, was a member of C.

At left, the hand-carved sandstone is an example of the gravestones of early settlers in the Verdigris River Valley. At right, Jessica Valentine wipes away the grit from a gravestone. REGISTER/TREVOR HOAG Company, 10th Kansas Infantry, enlisting in 1864 when he was only 18 years old.

According to local legend, the younger Wilhite met his fate at the hands of vigilantes who claimed to deal out justice along the Verdigris River Valley. They’d accused him of stealing cattle, but others claim he’d simply come to learn too much about the group. ‌ Enough that he was less a danger to them dead.

Jessica smoothed Wilhite’s grave with her hand, revealing a tattoo of a bird on her arm.

Her simple act makes it seem as though she’s reaching out to comfort him, telling him that it’s alright, that he didn’t deserve what happened to him. That he was innocent.

Less innocent, however, is another ghost of this place by the name of G.W. “Wash� Petty, who was a sympathizer with the Southern Confederacy. His lieutenant was Robert Clark, perhaps the first white person to settle in the area along with his wife Mary Ann. Given Petty’s political sentiments, it wasn’t long until trouble started brewing. Clark publicly accused Petty of conspiring to turn the company over to the rebels, which may not

have been far from the truth as soon after Petty joined a group of Missouri Bushwhackers.

The dispute would have likely ended there, but when Petty returned to the Verdigris Valley years later, he found the elaborate tombstone of his dead wife defaced and ruined. White-hot with rage, he vowed revenge on the man he believed responsible, Robert Clark.

Looking for the stone belonging to Petty’s wife, I began applying chalk to graves, trying to make out the eroded letters. After coating the first in blue-green dust, an electric tingle trembled up my spine and I wonder whether continuing the ritual is wise.

After Petty returned to the Valley in 1866, one night he and three other men rode up to Clark’s log cabin near the river to gun him down in front of his wife and children. Clark’s wife is said to have recognized Petty and screamed his name in anguish as he thundered away. As for Clark, it is believed that, he too, is buried in the little cemetery on the bluff.

Though I’m curious to learn where Clark is buried, Getty tells me with a grim, wheezing laughter that even were I to find the stone, it

wouldn’t be the actual grave, as the farmer who last cleaned up the cemetery moved the little sandstone markers in order to mow the plot, then forgot where each of them originally belonged.

Despite us not being able to find Clark’s grave, one of his sons eventually found Petty.

Though Mrs. Clark had forbade the young men from taking revenge and continuing the cycle of violence, her oldest son relentlessly trailed Petty until apprehending him and having him arrested for murder.

Years later in southeast Woodson County, Perry Township, a man had left the train in Humboldt bound for Fredonia.

Exhausted, he paused near a place called the 7-Mile House, a stopping-over point for weary travelers along the stagecoach line.

After securing a ride for $2, he would go on to confess to the driver, Jefferson Huff, that he was in fact Wash Petty. Petty said he’d recently been released from prison and remained furious at his attorney for not providing him an adequate defense, despite readily admitting that he’d indeed killed Clark.

Standing atop Cedar Bluff, surveying the brown-green ponds

more than 200 feet below, I think about G.W. Petty and the pain he must have felt over all those years – the death

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of his wife, uncertainty over where he political allegiances lie, hatred for Clark following desecration of his wife’s grave, rage toward his attorney for failing to provide justification for what had happened, that is, by sharing a tale of retribution that in those days was grounds for being judged innocent.

As Getty, Jessica, and I stood in silent awe of this place, a flock of migrating pelicans began to soar overhead, their vast white wings bending and gliding along the wind. I hoped that Petty had finally found peace.

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Sunflower, thankfully, scraps expansion of Holcomb energy plant After 15 years of pushing for the expansion of a coalfired electric plant in Holcomb, Sunflower Electric pulled the plug last week.

Wind and solar energy have come into their own, industry leaders admitted, plus prices for natural gas have remained low, edging out the always-affordable coal.

The Hays-based Sunflower Electric and its development partner, Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association of Denver, had plans to build an additional 895-megawatt coalfired generating unit next to the Holcomb plant.

The expansion would have increased the Holton plant’s capacity six-fold, serving customers primarily in Colorado, New Mexico, Nebraska, Wyoming, Oklahoma and Texas. Kansas was to receive about 8% of the power from the expansion. CO2 emissions were expected to increase by 7 million tons of carbon every year with the new plant online.

Investors are increasingly wary about putting their money toward energy that uses “dirty” fuel.

The Holcomb expansion was expected to cost $3 billion.

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is directly related to the spewing of harmful chemicals into the atmosphere.

When burned, coal releases carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas that traps heat in the atmosphere.

This most recent decade was the hottest in history.

Scientists say the primary culprit for rising temperatures is the release of tens of billions of tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.

Despite this knowledge, the world burned more fossil fuels than ever before last year. This year, a record-high 37 billion tons of carbon dioxide are projected to be released by the burning of fossil fuels.

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AUSTRALIA is in the grips of massive wildfires.

More than 25 million acres — a territory larger than the size of Switzerland — have been turned to ash over the past two months.

The root cause of the wildfires is climate change.

As the temperatures rise, the forests dry out. The dries get dryer, the wets get wetter.

As the world’s largest exporter of coal, Australia is having a hard time coming to grips with its role in climate change. Like our President Donald Trump, Australia’s Prime Minister Scott Morrison is a climate change denier.

Morrison simply says this is the “new normal,” to which we must adapt, and in fact is said to be considering the construction of even more coal-fired plants.

Morrison’s sole criteria for their approval is that they are a more “reliable and cheaper” means of energy production.

WE’RE THANKFUL for all the roadblocks environmentalists and like-minded individuals threw up over the years to prevent Sunflower from proceeding with the Holcomb expansion. Those efforts bought the needed time for the nascent wind energy program, particularly, to become more established as well as to provide further evidence of the harmful effects of carbon emissions by burning coal.

Kansas now leads the nation in wind energy as a share of total energy production, and its continued growth ensures thousands of jobs. Our state has shown it’s possible to both grow our economy and protect the environment at the same time.

Last week’s decision by Sunflower Electric is yet another step in preserving our planet.

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U.S. should turn focus to Taiwan A dramatic election that produced a stunning victory for democracy got too little attention here last weekend, as Americans focused on Iran and impeachment.

Trudy Rubin The Philadelphia Inquirer In a blow to Beijing, Taiwan’s voters decisively reelected Tsai Ing-wen, a tough female president who rejects China’s demand that her island democracy unify with the mainland.

Angry Chinese officials insisted the unification of the island with the communist mainland was “inevitable.”

This, despite the failure of military intimidation, economic incentives and rampant election meddling to convince the Taiwanese public.

U.S. policy since 1979 has been to dissuade Beijing from forcefully seizing the island, and to provide Taiwan with defensive weapons to make that less likely. But Taiwan’s fate is the issue with the most potential to spark a military confrontation between Washington and Beijing.

So it’s time for Americans to pay more attention to Taiwan’s ongoing struggle to preserve its democracy against an authoritarian Beijing regime.

On a trip to Taiwan and Hong Kong in November, I was impressed at the impact Hong Kong’s pro-democracy struggle had made on Taiwan, despite differences in population and history.

Taiwan was never part of the People’s Republic of China, although the PRC has always claimed it. Known as The Republic of China, Taiwan’s government was formed when Chinese nationalist leader Chiang Kai-shek and his army fled to Taipei in 1949 after his mainland government was defeated by the Communists.

Initially a military autocracy, that government evolved into a raucous democracy.

The capital, Taipei, is far less ostentatiously wealthy than Beijing or Shanghai, but rich in good eateries, universities and a great national museum.

Skilled at small business and advanced technology, its 23 million people have lived in a gray zone, considering themselves separate from China, but never declaring full independence lest Beijing attack.

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Tsai Ing-wen was re-elected president of Taiwan on Jan. 11. (Chan Long Hei/SOPA Images/Zuma Press/TNS)

a careful line, insisting the self-governing island was sovereign, but not declaring independence. “We don’t have a need to declare ourselves an independent state,” she told the BBC after her reelection.

“We are an independent country already and we call ourselves the Republic of China (Taiwan).”

The far more glitzy and multinational Hong Kong was returned to China by Britain in 1997 under a formula known as “one country, two systems” by which Beijing was supposed to permit Hong Kong to retain rule of law, an independent judiciary and increasingly free elections for 50 years. But China has consistently reduced Hong Kong’s freedoms, leading to the ongoing protests.

Tsai’s campaign was faltering before the Hong Kong demonstrations — with proBeijing politicians gaining.

But her polls soared as China cracked down on young Hong Kongers. “China was trying to use Hong Kong as a model, but we see it is a fake,” I was told

by Wang Ting-yu, chairman of the Foreign and Defense Committee of the Taiwanese parliament. “Taiwanese don’t believe in ‘one country, two systems.’ Democracy cannot exist under the Chinese system.”

Adds Ketty Chen, vice president of the Taiwan Foundation for Democracy: “Taiwanese are not necessarily pro-independence. But they do not want to be part of the People’s Republic of China, especially looking at what is going on in Hong Kong. The PRC is not capturing the hearts and minds of the people here, not from what it is doing in Taiwan and Hong Kong.”

Of course, Beijing has shown no interest in winning hearts and minds. Had it done so, the situation in Hong Kong could have been calmed months ago, with the appoint-

ment of a truly independent commission to look into police violence against protesters.

NOW THE QUESTION is whether Xi Jinping will pay any attention to hearts and minds in Taiwan — and the young people there who increasingly identify there as Taiwanese rather than Chinese.

So far no sign he will do so, preferring to flaunt military might designed to intimidate Taiwan. Beijing will also pressure or bribe the remaining 15 nations that still recognize Taiwanese sovereignty to withdraw their embassies.

And it is unlikely Xi will renew a cross-straits dialogue with Tsai’s government that Beijing broke because she would not recognize “one China.”

Xi has pledged to “reunify” the island with the mainland by 2049, the centennial of the PRC’s establishment, but some analysts believe he might use force to do so, sooner, while he is president. Others believe China has so many more pressing problems he will refrain.

The Trump administration has sold Taipei billions worth of defensive weapons, and effusively congratulated Tsai on her reelection. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo commended her for maintaining stability with Beijing “in the face of unrelenting pressure.”

But the United States has no formal defense pact with Taiwan, and no one is certain what President Trump would do if China attacked the island. The United States, along with other democracies, must make clear to Beijing that any such attack would make it a pariah. They must also encourage Tsai Ing-wen to stay in the gray zone: a sovereign democracy short of independence that gives Beijing no pretext to attack.

Wichita’s upstart mayor proof of new era of politics

By DOTER GOTER For the Wichita Eagle

The inauguration of Brandon Whipple as Wichita’s 102nd mayor marks a new era in local politics.

A lot of questions are on the table as the 37-year-old Democrat assumes the “nonpartisan” position at the helm of City Hall.

But one big question stands out: How the heck did this relatively unknown, brash, out- Brandon Whipple, Wichita spoken, non-traditional poli- mayor tician displace an incumbent mayor who was backed by all from upstart folk singer Lacey the traditional power centers Cruse, who upset incumbent in local politics?

Richard Ranzau for Sedgwick Incumbency is a huge ad- County Commission in 2018. vantage, and Mayor Jeff Lon- The same commission disgwell was the clear favorite trict that had elected a hardout of the gate. But something line conservative like Ranzau was different about this elec- turned on a dime and chose tion. the philosophical opposite, an Things were changing, and unknown progressive fresh a hint of that change came face who had courted Hispan-

ics, seniors and anybody else who felt under-served by the current commission.

This new electorate also blindsided the Wichita Regional Chamber of Commerce, whose endorsement of Longwell continued a series of ill-chosen political candidates. In the 2018 primary, the Chamber backed Hugh Nicks against incumbent Ranzau, but the Chamber’s endorsement carried little weight despite an all-out attack campaign that only served to help Cruse win the general election. In the 2015 mayoral race, the Chamber endorsed its former CEO Sam Williams, who lost to Longwell.

The Chamber had played a much different role when Carl Brewer ran for mayor in 2007.

The Chamber had tired of incumbent Carlos Mayans and provided Brewer with heavy financial support, paving the

way for Brewer’s eight-year term as one of Wichita’s most popular mayors.

So what was different in 2019? Longwell, in a recent interview on KPTS-TV, said he lost the election because the Wichita Eagle had prosecuted him in the court of public opinion for various ethical shortcomings. What he didn’t acknowledge was that his campaign was out of touch with a changing electorate.

Longwell lost the social media battle without putting up a fight. His campaign didn’t even have a website, while Whipple’s team was using every digital tool available to track the public’s mood and its reaction to political messaging. Whipple was reaching out to voters who would end up handing him 46% of the vote, 10 points ahead of Longwell.

Whipple attributes his suc-

cess to a basic communication strategy, using social media and personal interaction to develop a relationship with voters.

It wasn’t so much that the voters had changed. Rather, they were more engaged and informed through social media. Young and old alike were making the same demands for accountability and transparency.

Now that the dust has settled, the challenge for Whipple is to live up to the expectations of the 46% who voted for him. It won’t be an easy task to develop consensus and confidence from a skeptical council. But the lessons learned from this election will likely reshape local government for years to come.

Dale Goter is a media consultant, former journalist and former lobbyist for the city of Wichita.

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Thousands rally in Virginia in support of gun rights RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Gun-rights activists — some making deliberate displays of their military-style rifles — began to descend on Virginia’s capital city this morning to protest plans by the state’s Democratic leadership to pass gun-control legislation.

Several thousand activists — mostly white and male, many clothed in camouflage and waving flags with messages of support for President Donald Trump — appeared hours before the 11 a.m. rally was set to begin.

Gov. Ralph Northam declared a temporary state of emergency days ahead of the rally, ban-

ning all weapons, including guns, from the event on Capitol Square.

The expected arrival of thousands of gunrights activists — along with members of militia groups and white supremacists — raised fears the state could again see the type of violence that exploded in Charlottesville in 2017.

The Virginia State Police, the Virginia Capitol Police and the Richmond Police planned a huge police presence with both uniformed and plainclothes officers. Police limited access to Capitol Square to only one entrance and have warned rally-goers they may have to wait hours to get past secu-

rity screening. Authorities started letting people in at the sole public entrance just before 7:30 a.m.

Authorities will be looking to avoid a repeat of the violence that erupted in 2017 in Charlottesville during one of the largest gatherings of white supremacists and other far-right groups in a decade. Attendees brawled with counterprotesters, and an avowed white supremacist drove his car into a crowd, killing a woman and injuring dozens more. Law enforcement officials faced scathing criticism for what both the white supremacist groups and anti-racism protesters said was a

passive response.

An RV festooned with Trump material and selling Trump merchandise parked in front of the line to the square, but was booted by a police officer shortly after it parked today: “You got two minutes before it’s towed. Clock’s ticking.”

Today’s rally is being organized by an influential grassroots gun-rights group, the Virginia Citizens Defense League. The group holds a yearly rally at the Capitol, typically a low-key event with a few hundred gun enthusiasts listening to speeches from a handful of ambitious Republican lawmakers. But this year, many more are

expected to attend. Second Amendment groups have identified the state as a rallying point for the fight against what they see as a national erosion of gun rights.

Virginia Beach carpenter Andy Kincaid, 59, got up at 2 a.m. to come to Richmond, but said he thinks the number of attendees was probably overstated, as the cold weather and rumors of anti-fascist infiltrators may have kept some away.

The pushback against proposed new gun restrictions began immediately after Democrats won majorities in both the state Senate and House of Delegates in November. Much of the

opposition has focused on a proposed assault weapons ban.

Virginia Democrats are also backing bills limiting handgun purchases to once a month, implementing universal background checks on gun purchases, allowing localities to ban guns in public buildings, parks and other areas, and a red flag bill that would allow authorities to temporarily take guns away from anyone deemed to be dangerous to themselves or others.

Kem Regik, a 20-yearold private security officer from northern Virginia, brought a white flag with a picture of a rifle captioned, “Come and take it.”

Homes: LaHarpe event spells out USDA loan programs Continued from A1

home through the Direct loan program could end up with a mortgage payment of less than $600 a month.

LAHARPE Pride has an ambitious goal to build 20 new houses in LaHarpe in 2020, Pride member and local business owner Harry Lee said.

He cited reports that workers commute 40 to 50 miles for jobs at some of Iola’s industries, like Gates and Russell Stover Candies. LaHarpe is just a few minutes away, so those workers could spend more time with their families if they chose to move to the city.

He and his wife, Joyce, have lived in LaHarpe off and on since 1958.

“It’s a good place to raise a family,” he said.

LaHarpe resident Alanna Knavel attended the fair and met with USDA representative Kelli Kramer to talk about available programs and

pick up an application. Kramer explained that, if for some reason an applicant doesn’t immediately qualify, she will work with that person to try to fix the problem and get them approved.

Knavel grew up in LaHarpe and is currently living with a friend in hopes of finding a home of her own. She was curious to see if she might qualify for one of the housing loans.

“I’m trying to find a house for me and my son, and grow my family,” she said. “This was a chance to get more information and see if I would be able to build something.”

Alanna Knavel, who grew up in LaHarpe and hopes to either buy or build a home there, talks to USDA representative Kelli Kramer about rural housing loan programs. At left, LaHarpe Pride member Richard Luken talks about loan programs to encourage the building of new homes in the city. Pride has set a goal to build 20 new homes in 2020. REGISTER/VICKIE MOSS

Analysts: State’s electric rate-making system favors utilities Continued from A1

dent organization to look into the effectiveness of current ratemaking practices and whether there were any options available to state regulators or the legislature to help rates

become regionally competitive again.

THE REPORT, which came out earlier this month, offered three main suggestions.

Suggestion 1: The Kansas Legislature

should create a state energy plan and require utilities to regularly submit an integrated resource plan, or IRP. The state’s plan would allow the legislative and executive branches to set short and long-term goals about pricing, future transmission needs and renewable energy, giving regulators a clear framework for decisionmaking. And the IRP would encourage utilities to use the most costeffective methods for meeting the state’s goals.

Suggestion 2: Lawmakers should consider

performance-based regulation, with the state setting targets to incentivize electric companies to be more efficient.

They would then be rewarded for that, rather than solely for building more power plants or transmission lines.

Suggestion 3: The legislature should make laws so that utilities can refinance their loans on older, uneconomic investments. This is a process known as securitization and could potentially ease the financial burden when utilities have to shut down coal-

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fired power plants and other, less profitable long-term investments.

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Evergy generally supports the recommendations, Caisley said, but working out the details of any proposed legislative changes would be important. He added that Evergy is already working on an IRP as a condition of the merger between Westar Energy and Kansas City Power & Light.

He also applauded Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly for proposing to work on a new state energy plan last year, well before this report recommended it.

“We are thrilled that we have a governor that realizes that firm policy direction is important for consumers and it’s important for utilities,” he said.

Advocacy groups, such as the Kansas Industrial Consumers Group, which lobbied for the independent study, are worried the state’s high electricity rates are bad for businesses.

“The utilities have prospered in the last decade way above what the S&P 500 is,” organization president Jim Zakoura said, “while the ratepayers in Kansas have seen their rates increase 70%.”

He said the best chance of Kansas seeing competitive rates again is for the legisla-

ture to take the recommendations seriously and make sure they’re implemented.

Dorothy Barnett is the executive director of the Climate and Energy Project, a cleanenergy advocacy group.

She said state lawmakers and regulators need to finally start planning for grid modernization and the rapid shift to renewable energy.

“It’s time to start talking about different ratemaking structures,” she said.

Ultimately, the report concludes that there is no single, easy fix to reducing Kansas’ electricity rates. Each option considered comes with implementation costs and risks.

The report is the first part of a two-part study; the second part will look at more specific policy choices, such as how to integrate electric vehicles and whether advanced energy technologies like battery storage and microgrids will help consumers. It must be finished by July 1.

Legislators in the House and Senate Utilities Committees are expected to be briefed on the report’s findings when the session begins next week.

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Allen Community College: Women’s Basketball

Slow start downs hopes of a comeback victory

By ERICK MITCHELL The Iola Register

A sluggish first quarter was too much to overcome for the Allen Community College Lady Devils.

ACC fell victim to its seventh consecutive loss against Coffeyville on Saturday at home, losing 89-79. But if the ball bounced the Devils’ way early on, the result may have been different.

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“We just missed so many layups at the beginning,” head coach Rachel Janzen said. “I was just counting how many untouched/uncontested easy putbacks or layups were missing. I got up to six or seven before I stopped counting, and by that time it was 2-12.”

Coffeyville led 23-13 after beating the buzzer with a 3-point bomb to close the first quarter. The Red Ravens stretched their lead to 13 when

ACC decided to punch back.

A 7-0 Lady Devil run brought ACC within six. Moments later, Brandi Jordan fired from beyond the arc to bring ACC within three.

Despite the second-quarter push, ACC trailed 36-32 heading into the locker room for the second half.

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Ariel Walker attempts to drive past a Coffeyville defender on Saturday. REGISTER/ERICK MITCHELL

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Mahomes lifts Chiefs to Super Bowl appearance KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — With his best imitation of a tightrope walker, Patrick Mahomes high-wired the Kansas City Chiefs into their first Super Bowl since 1970.

Oh sure, Mahomes did his usual superb job passing, but it was his 27-yard tap dance down the left sideline late in the first half that gave the Chiefs their first lead. From there, they outran the runoriented Tennessee Titans and star back Derrick Henry for a 35-24 victory Sunday in the AFC championship.

At last, for the third time overall, the Chiefs (14-4) are Super Bowl bound.

In two weeks in Miami, they will play San Francisco, which rolled to a 37-20 win over Green Bay in the NFC title game.

“I mean, it’s amazing. It really is,” said Mahomes, who had 294 yards passing and three touchdowns. “To be here, to be a part of Chiefs Kingdom and to be able to do it here at Arrowhead, these people deserve it. And we’re not done yet.”

Adding to the joy of the achievement, coach Andy Reid and owner Clark Hunt accepted the Lamar Hunt Trophy — named after his father — emblematic of the AFC title. It was handed over to them by Chiefs Hall of Famer Bobby Bell, with Mahomes and safety Tyrann Mathieu jumping for joy on the makeshift stage.

Next up: chasing the Vince Lombardi Trophy.

“Very excited and very emotional to win the trophy that has my dad’s name on it,” Hunt said. “Yeah, 50 years were too long, but we’re going to another Super Bowl.

“Chiefs Kingdom, we are going to the Super Bowl.”

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Malik Hardmon pulls up for a jump shot against Coffeyville on Saturday. REGISTER/ERICK MITCHELL

LOSING SKID CONTINUES

By ERICK MITCHELL The Iola Register

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Two weeks ago, the Allen Community College Red Devils appeared invincible.

An 11-game winning streak fueled a 7-0 start in the Jayhawk Conference. But now, the Red Devils appear battered and bruised.

Coffeyville handed ACC its third consecutive loss on Saturday by a score of 90-80.

The loss moves the Red Dev-

ils back to fourth in the Jayhawk East with a 7-3 record.

“We lost our toughness on defense,” head coach Andy Shaw said. “During the whole win streak we had toughness on the defensive end, but I think we have lost that over the past couple of games.

We are missing that chip on our shoulder and that edge it takes to close out these games.”

Trailing by one midway through the first half, trans-

fer guard Joel Boye provided his usual energy off the bench. An assist to sharpshooter Trez Hankis for a 3-pointer, and a floater off the double crossover gave ACC the 24-20 edge.

ACC had no issue scoring inside, but the Red Devils failed to fire from deep. The Red Devils shot 3-13 from beyond the arc in the contest, while Coffeyville’s Tony Hutson sinked 5 first-half treys.

The hot edge in 3-point shoot-

ing helped the Red Ravens hold a 42-40 lead after the first half.

“We didn’t adjust well to it, and gave them wide open shots,” Shaw said. “And then in the second half, they finished it at the rim.”

Coffeyville extended its lead to 71-56 with 10 minutes left in the second half. Then, the Red Devils awoke to begin a tall task of a comeback. A See DEVILS | Page B4

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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s defense team and the prosecutors of his impeachment are laying out their arguments over whether his conduct toward Ukraine warrants his removal from office.

Trump’s lawyers on Sunday previewed their impeachment defense with the questionable assertion that the charges against him are invalid, adopting a position rejected by Democrats as “nonsense.”

The trial resumes on Tuesday with what could be a fight over the ground rules. By then, both sides will have submitted briefs and four Democratic presidential candidates will have been forced back to Washington from the early nominating states to join every other senator in silence, sans phones, on the Senate floor.

What they’re likely to hear in this extraordinary setting is the House Democrats’ impeachment articles that charge Trump with abuse of power and obstruction of Congress over his pressure on Ukraine for political help. From the White House, the senator-jurors are expected to hear that Trump committed no crime, the impeachment articles are invalid and he’s the victim of

Democrats who want to overturn his election.

“Criminal-like conduct is required,” said Alan Dershowitz, a constitutional lawyer on Trump’s defense team.

Dershowitz said he will be making the same argument to the Senate and if it prevails, there will be “no need” to pursue the witness testimony or documents that Democrats are demanding.

But the “no crime, no impeachment” approach has been roundly dismissed by scholars and Democrats, who were fresh off a trial brief that called Trump’s behavior the “worst nightmare” of the country’s founders.

In their view, the standard of “high crimes and misdemeanors” is vague and open-ended in the Constitution and meant to encompass abuses of power that aren’t necessarily illegal.

The White House is pushing an “absurdist position,” said Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., the lead Democratic prosecutor of the impeachment case. “That’s the argument I suppose you have to make if the facts are so dead set against you.” Rep. Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., another impeachment prosecutor, called it “arrant nonsense” and said evidence of Trump’s misconduct is overwhelming.

The back-and-forth

came as all concerned agitated for the Senate to get on with the third impeachment trial in the nation’s history.

Behind the scenes. the seven House managers were shoring up which prosecutor will handle which parts of the case and doing a walkthrough of the Senate. .

No senators were more eager to get going than the four Democratic presidential candidates facing the prospect of being marooned in the Senate ahead of kickoff nominating

Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., shed no light on how the proceedings will follow — and differ from — the precedent of President Bill Clinton’s impeachment trial in 1999.

“The president deserves a fair trial. The American people deserve a fair trial. So let’s have that fair trial,” said Democratic Rep. Jason Crow of Colorado, one of the seven impeachment prosecutors.

But what’s fair is as vigorously disputed as the basic question of whether Trump’s pres-

From left, Sen. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.), Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) and Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts arrive to the Senate chamber for impeachment proceedings Thursday. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images/ TNS)

votes in Iowa and New Hampshire.

“I’d rather be here,” said Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders on New Hampshire Public Radio while campaigning Sunday in Concord.

During the trial, Sanders and other senators are required to sit for perhaps six grueling hours of proceedings daily — except Sundays, per Senate rules — in pursuit of the “impartial justice” they pledged to pursue.

But there was scant evidence that anyone’s mind was really open about whether Trump earned vindication or ouster.

Mystery, however, abounded over the trial’s ground rules. Senate Majority Leader

sure on Ukraine to help him politically merits a Senate conviction and removal from office. The stakes are enormous, with historic influence on the fate of Trump’s presidency, the 2020 presidential and congressional elections and the future of any presidential impeachments.

Whatever happens in the Senate, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., has said, Trump will “be impeached forever.”

Members of Trump’s team countered that if they win a vindication for Trump, it means “there will be an acquittal forever as well,” Trump attorney Robert Ray said Sunday. “That is the task ahead.”

For all of the suspense over the trial’s structure

and nature, some clues on what’s to come sharpened on Sunday.

The president’s lawyers bore down on the suggestion that House impeachment is invalid unless the accused violated U.S. law. Dershowitz’s argument, backed up by Ray, refers to an 1868 speech by Benjamin Curtis, who after serving as a Supreme Court justice acted as the chief lawyer for Andrew Johnson at his Senate impeachment trial.

Johnson was ultimately acquitted by the Senate.

“The core of the impeachment parameters allege that crimes have been committed, treason, bribery, and things like that, in other words, other high crimes and misdemeanors,” Ray said Sunday.

Republicans have long signaled the strategy, which has, in turn, been disputed by other scholars.

“Rubbish,” said Frank Bowman, a University of Missouri law professor and author of his own book about the history of impeachment for the Trump era.

“It’s comically bad.

Dershowitz either knows better or should,” said Bowman, who said he had been Dershowitz’s student as a law professor at Harvard.

Even as he made the case for Trump’s acquittal, Dershowitz on Sunday distanced himself

from the rest of Trump’s defense team and said he would merely speak about the Constitution at the trial. He refused to endorse the strategy pursued by other members of that team or defend Trump’s conduct and said he didn’t sign onto the White House left brief filed Saturday, which called impeachment a “brazen” attempt to overturn the 2016 election.

“I’m a liberal Democrat ... I’m here as a constitutional lawyer,” Dershowitz said. “I’m here to lend my expertise on that issue and that issue alone.”

Democrats, meanwhile, are pushing for witnesses and documents that weren’t part of the House proceedings. A few Republicans said they want to know more before deciding.

It’s relevant because new information from Lev Parnas, an indicted associate of Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani, is being incorporated in the House case. At the same time, Senate Democrats want to call John Bolton, the former national security adviser, among other potential eyewitnesses, after the White House blocked officials from appearing in the House.

With Republicans controlling the Senate 53-47, they can set the trial rules — or any four Republicans could join with Democrats to change course.

Survey finds rising inequality eroding trust in capitalism DAVOS, Switzerland (AP) — Rising income inequality is undermining confidence in capitalism around the world, according to a survey conducted by public relations firm Edelman ahead of the gathering of the elites in the Swiss ski resort of Davos.

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Dad didn’t earn the right to walk her down the aisle Dear Carolyn: I always knew my sister was my dad’s favorite. He always made time to show up at her cheerleading competitions but never to my soccer games. Not once.

Then there were the daddy-daughter dances at our high school. My sister and dad loved them so much, and I couldn’t wait until it was my turn. My dad travels almost every weekend for work, so the fact that he’d stay home and go to the dances was really important. When my turn came, my dad didn’t decline weekend work for me, not even my senior year, after he promised he’d make it.

I know it sounds stupid but that really broke my heart. At my sister’s wedding my dad gave a toast about how she was his “special little girl” who he loved so much that he actually turned down work to go to dances with her. I had to force myself not to cry.

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Now I’m getting married and there’s no way I want him walking me down the aisle, having a special dance with me or giving a toast. I told my mom so she could be the one to tell him and she is begging me to reconsider, saying I’m being petty and making a spectacle of myself.

Am I? I just can’t see letting him take that role just so people won’t talk and he won’t feel bad. He never cared if I felt bad. My fiance and I just want it to be a happy day for us and we’re paying for it all ourselves, unlike my sister. Since, of course, now that they’re closer to retirement, they have no money for my wedding like they did for hers.

Whatever. I’m not asking someone else to fill in for him, just eliminating those things entirely.

Should I follow through with our plan? — The Unfavorite The Unfavorite: Oh gosh yes. Do your wedding however you want.

Your mother said you’re “being petty, and making a spectacle of myself ”?

Not only is that appalling in its own right, but it is also world-class enabling of the emotional abuse your father dumped on you on her watch for your entire childhood.

She can scold you but couldn’t tell your dad it was unacceptable to skip all of his other daughter’s dances? She couldn’t call his attention to the missed soccer games and countless smaller slights? His cruel and selfish choices are obvious; hers are insidious.

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IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF STEVE A. SATCHELL, DECEASED Case No. 20 PR 2 NOTICE OF HEARING THE STATE OF KANSAS TO ALL PERSONS CONCERNED: You are hereby notified that a Petition has been filed on January 2, 2020 in this Court by Loree Curbow, as Petitioner and heir-atlaw of Steve A. Satchell, Deceased, praying for the determination of descent of personal and real property in Kansas, or interest therein, owned by the decedent

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NOTICE OF HEARING THE STATE OF KANSAS TO ALL PERSONS CONCERNED: You are hereby notified that a Petition has been filed on January 2, 2020 in this Court by Loree Curbow, as Petitioner and heir-atlaw of Rosa Lee Shay, Deceased, praying for the determination of descent of personal and real property in Kansas, or interest therein, owned by the decedent

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2. A beautiful wedding, as you envision it and true to your heart; 3. A long, loving, supportive marriage to someone who values you for who you are; 4. A gifted and compassionate therapist for you to call upon when the weight of your family history feels heavier than you can manage; 5. A get-out-of-guilt-free card for any distance you need from your family hereafter.

I think it’s great you’re paying for the wedding yourself, actually. No blood money. Warmest congratulations to you both.

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Should you fail therein, judgment and decree will be entered in due course upon such Petition. /s/ Loree Curbow, Petitioner ROBERT E. JOHNSON, II, #18223 JOHNSON SCHOWENGERDT, PA P.O. Box 866 Iola, Kansas 66749 (620) 365-3778/(620) 380-6230 Fax Attorney for Petitioner (1) 6, 13, 20 at the time of her death. You are hereby required to file your written defenses to such Petition on or before the 31st day of January 2020 at 8:30 a.m. of said day in said Court, in the City of Iola, in Allen County, Kansas, at which time and place said cause will be heard.

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Mahomes leads Chiefs to first Super Bowl since 1969 Continued from B1

the first AFL-NFL Championship Game — nope, it wasn’t called the Super Bowl yet — to the Lombardi Packers 35-10. Three years later, one year after the New York Jets shocked Baltimore to lay claim to the AFL being equal to the long-established NFL, Kansas City was back.

This time, it was known as the Super Bowl — indeed, Lamar Hunt is credited with coming up with the name — and his Chiefs hammered Minnesota 23-7 with the typical Wild West offensive flair and a staunch defense. Those are characteristics that helped carry KC this season.

Reid isn’t as animated as Hall of Famer Hank Stram, who famously urged the Chiefs team to “keep matriculating the ball down the field, boys.” Caught up in the moment Sunday, Reid said, “It’s awesome,” be-

fore asking the crowd to chant “How about those Chiefs?”

Moments later, standout tight end Travis Kelce proclaimed, “You gotta fight for your right to party.”

There will be plenty of partying on South Beach for Chiefs Kingdom heading into the championship matchup.

“Fired up to go to Miami, got to get on a diet so I can fit into my clothes,” Reid said.

“Very proud.”

As they had done in their past three “elimination” games, the sixthseeded Titans (11-8) got started quickly. The difference at Arrowhead as opposed to Houston, New England and Baltimore was that the Chiefs had Mahomes, Tyreek Hill, Sammy Watkins and Damien Williams on offense, and a vastly upgraded defense from when they lost in last year’s AFC title game.

Devils: Lose at home Continued from B1

fast-break bucket from Malik Hardmon, and put-back tip from Jaylen Sasser capped off a 10-0 Red Devil run.

While a spin and finish in the lane from Hardmon brought ACC within two, that was the closest they would sniff the lead. ACC failed to find stops down the stretch, and the Red Ravens powered to victory, 90-80.

Now riding a threegame slide, ACC is once more seeking for the winning formula it executed so well only weeks ago.

“This one came down

to toughness, both mental and physical,” Shaw said. “We are at the point in the season where not a lot is going to change.

The guys know the concepts, know the plays, and what we are doing. So, it is more mental than it is physical.

We have to be mentally tougher so we can be physically tough.”

No game is a walk in the park in the Jayhawk Conference, but ACC faces its division’s bottom dweller Cloud County in Concordia on Wednesday. Cloud currently ranks last in the Jayhawk East with a 2-9 record.

Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes hoists the Lamar Hunt AFC Championship trophy over his head after the Chiefs defeated the Tennessee Titans 35-24 on Sunday. CHRIS OCHSNER/KANSAS CITY STAR/TNS Henry was held to 7 yards rushing in the second half.

“They were doubling all these guys,” Mahomes said of his spectacular TD run on which he barely stayed in bounds. “I just ran it and got some good blocking at the end and found a way to get in the end zone.”

A week after they overcame a 24-0 deficit against Houston, the Chiefs had to rally again.

Down 10-0 and 177, Kansas City didn’t flinch, building a 3517 lead while controlling the clock with a strong ground game.

Naturally, Mahomes complemented that with sharp passing, spreading the ball on

short and deep throws.

The dagger came with a 60-yard completion to Watkins for the Chiefs’ 28th straight point midway in the final period.

Mahomes thrust both arms in the air as the crowd sang Whitney Houston’s “I Wanna Dance With Somebody.”

That somebody will be the 49ers in two weeks. fter taking a 3-0 lead on Greg Joseph’s first field goal — with Tennessee’s penchant for scoring in the red zone, he hadn’t been called upon in his previous four games with the team — the Titans got a huge break. Bashaud Breeland appeared to make a diving interception, but replay review showed the ball hitting the ground.

Helped by consecutive

offside penalties and a a fourth-down pass to Adam Humphries for his first career playoff reception, the Titans converted on, what else, Henry’s 4-yard run.

Then the Chiefs got rolling, scoring on three successive series. Hill took it in on a shovel pass, later beat top Titans cornerback Logan Ryan for a 20-yard reception, and Mahomes finished the half with his brilliant jaunt down the left sideline with half the Tennessee defense seemingly expecting him to step out of bounds.

That gave the Chiefs a 21-17 lead. It went to 2817 on Williams’ 3-yard run to cap a seven-minute drive. Then Watkins toasted Logan for the clinching long pass.

Henry was held to 69 yards on 19 carries after rushing for 588 yards in the past three games as an unstoppable force.

“I feel like our backs were against the wall the whole season,” Henry said. “But we kept on fighting and kept on believing in each other. I think it speaks volumes about the team we have.

We just came up short.”

The Chiefs easily outrushed the Titans on Sunday. Mahomes led the way with 53 of those yards and also was 23 for 35 for 294 yards passing.

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LAS VEGAS (AP) — After three years without a victory, Conor McGregor needed only 40 seconds to reclaim his place at the center of the mixed martial arts world.

McGregor’s dynamic stoppage of Donald Cerrone in UFC 246 on Saturday night put the Irish superstar firmly in control of the future of two UFC divisions.

Every elite lightweight and welterweight will practically beg for his shot against a fighter who still commands the world’s attention like nobody else. A refocused McGregor seems eager to make up for lost time after three years of inactivity and outside-thecage misbehavior, suggesting he could fight three more times this year.

“The whole world lights up when I fight,” McGregor said. “So I want to get back out there again.”

He hadn’t made a decision by the time he left T-Mobile Arena late Saturday night with a broad smile on his face and a bottle of his own branded whiskey in hand. McGregor plans to speak with UFC President Dana White and billionaire ex-UFC owner Lorenzo Fertitta before he decides whether to pursue a championship belt, a revenge fight, an absurdly lucrative boxing match or any combination of the three.

The contenders already are lining up.

Popular welterweight brawler Jorge Masvidal would welcome a showdown, while welterweight champion Kamaru Usman would love to defend his title against McGregor. Both fighters watched McGregor’s victory from cageside, and Masvidal even tried to goad McGregor in curious fashion by wearing the same Versace robe that McGregor famously

wore a few years ago to an open workout.

Lightweight contender Justin Gaethje fights in a reckless, crowd-pleasing style guaranteed to make a compelling matchup for the similarly aggressive McGregor. Another must-see bout would be a third fight with imperious veteran Nate Diaz, who fought twice in 2019 after his own three-year break.

But White wants McGregor to wait for a fight against lightweight champion Khabib Nurmagomedov, who beat McGregor in October 2018 and subsequently sparked an ugly brawl outside the cage. The bad feelings from that promotion haven’t healed, and White believes the rematch could rival the profitability of McGregor’s boxing match with Floyd Mayweather.

“With how Khabib won the first time and how famous Khabib has

become, we’re looking at Hagler-Hearns,” White said. “We’re looking at like Ali-Foreman, AliFrazier. This is a massive fight with global appeal.

This is the fight that you make. This is the fight that makes sense.”

But Nurmagomedov is booked to face Tony Ferguson at UFC 249 in April, and McGregor would prefer not to wait until late summer for his next bout. Instead, he half-seriously predicted the Nurmagomedov-Ferguson bout will be scrapped and he’ll be forced to step in.

McGregor also could bide his time with another absurdly lucrative boxing match. While most fight fans scoff at this entire venture, the wider world still appears to be fascinated by these spectacles, as evidenced by the money made by McGregor and Mayweather in 2017 in one of the richest pay-per-view bouts in boxing history.

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back to 10, but ACC’s Zariah Sango provided an answer for each Coffeyville basket. Three straight mid-range jumpers from Sango kept ACC within striking distance in the third.

Sango finished with 17 points on 7/15 from the floor and 8 rebounds.

“She has been playing really WELL, and is starting to get more comfortable with her post moves,” Janzen said.

“She still missed quite of

few of them, but is starting to understand the feel of it better.”

In the fourth, ACC searched for away to gain the lead, but the mountain stood too tall to climb. The Lady Devils came within five after a floater in the lane from Ariel Walker, but that was the closest ACC would come the rest of the way.

The Lady Devils had no answer for Coffeyville’s Faith Simpson, who finished with 31

points and 17 rebounds.

“We could not stop 30 (Simpson),” Janzen said.

“30 is a very nice player and we could not contain her. We were trying manto-man and zone defense, but we just couldn’t control her today.”

Ahead by seven, Coffeyville executed an 8-1 run to pull away by 14 points with two minutes to go, and stood firm while earning the 89-79 victory.

Walker’s performance was the biggest bright

spot for ACC. The secondyear guard finished with a team-high 19 points along with 9 rebounds and 4 assists.

But the Lady Devils are going to need even more from Walker and the rest of the girls moving forward. With the loss, ACC sits at 6-12 overall and 1-8 in conference play.

ACC will get the chance to snap its losing skid on Wednesday when they travel to Concordia for a matchup with Cloud County.