The Iola Register, June 23, 2023

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It’s been a year since fall of Roe

One year ago Saturday, the U.S. Supreme Court rescinded a five-decade-old right to abortion, prompting a seismic shift in debates about politics, values, freedom and fairness.

City talks pinching pennies

As Iola City Council members continue to hammer out the city’s spending plan for 2024, much remains to be decided.

Budget talks began in earnest at the Council’s June 12 meeting and will continue Monday.

Much of the talk at the first session centered on how much wiggle room remained with Iola’s general fund, and whether — as has been proposed — to implement another hefty property tax hike for the second year in a row.

City Administrator Matt Rehder told Council members austere budget plan-

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Merger would end bank’s era

A proposed bank merger will bring about the end of an era.

The Bank of Commerce, based in Chanute, has applied with the State Bank Commissioner’s Office to merge with Piqua State Bank, which has branches in Gas, Piqua and Yates Center.

If the merger is approved — Bank of Commerce essentially is acquiring PSB — Bank of Commerce branches will remain in Gas and Yates Center.

Piqua State Bank owners previously had announced the Piqua facility will shut its doors for good on June 30.

“Change is always hard for everyone,” said Heather Cur-

New report finds $1.3 million overpaid by Kansas Medicaid

TOPEKA — A new Medicaid report finds more than $1.3 million may have been overpaid to managed care organizations due to slow information provision, causing Kansas Medicaid programs to pay members after they left the state.

The attorney general’s office issued a news release Wednesday announcing the findings. The performance audit of the Kansas Department of Health and Environment was done by Medicaid inspector general Steven Anderson and covered Jan. 1, 2019 to Dec. 31, 2021.

“It’s clear from our audit that the federal government and the state can do more to recapture these overpayments by quickly identifying and verifying Medicaid

beneficiaries who move out of state and then by removing them from the program,” Anderson said in the news release. “Kansas taxpayers deserve to know that our Medicaid resources are being used efficiently.”

Currently, states contribute information on individuals enrolled in Medicaid to the Public Assistance Reporting Information System program. A report is then compiled quarterly to notify states whether an individual is enrolled in Medicaid and receiving benefits in another state.

KDHE would like to have the reports from the federal government on a monthly basis to aid in faster decisions, as “quarterly’s not very efficient,” Anderson said. The report said while the

See AUDIT | Page A4

ry, president and CEO of Piqua State Bank, “but this will be a positive deal for our customers and our employees.”

As part of the proposed merger, the State Bank Commissioner’s office will allow public comment regarding the deal. Details about the merger are in a public notice on page A2.

The public comment period will end July 18.

Bank of Commerce has been in the Lair family since it was acquired by the late Virgil Lair in 1985, and operates out of 13 locations across eastern Kansas, including its main branch in Chanute. If the Lair family sounds familiar to Piqua residents, it’s because Virgil Lair was a Piqua native, and helped establish the Pi-

qua Farmer’s Cooperative.

Other Bank of Commerce branches are in Burden, Chetopa, Erie, Fall River, Howard, Longton, Neodesha, Oxford, Parsons and Thayer.

THE PIQUA State Bank was organized in 1910 by L. C. Neimann.

During that same year the Farmers State Bank was opened in Piqua by George Wille. In 1914, the Wille family purchased the Piqua State Bank and merged the two banks under the name of the Piqua State Bank.

John Wille, George Wille’s son, owned and managed the bank for the next 50 years.

The Bank was eventually purchased by Galen L. (Jack)

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Twenty-five million women of childbearing age now live in states where the law makes abortions harder to get than they were before the ruling. Decisions about the law are largely in the hands of state lawmakers and courts. Most Republican-led states have restricted abortion. Fourteen ban abortion in most cases at any point in pregnancy. Twenty Democratic-leaning states have protected access to abortion. Here’s a look at what’s changed since the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization ruling.

LAWS HAVE BEEN

ENACTED IN 25 STATES TO BAN OR RESTRICT ABORTION ACCESS

Last summer, as women and medical providers began to navigate a landscape without legal protection for abortion, Nancy Davis’ doctors advised her to terminate her pregnancy. The fetus she was carrying had no skull and was expected to die soon after birth.

But doctors in Louisiana, where Davis lived, would not provide the abortion due to a new law banning it throughout pregnancy in most cases.

Davis became one of the women whose stories, told on news sites and network news, in newspapers and blogs, illustrated the

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Vol. 125, No. 185 Iola, KS $1.00 2103 S. Sante Fe • Chanute, KS CALL OR TEXT: 620-431-6070 CLEAVERFARM.COM It’s that easy! Shop online. Relax. Pick up in-store. Schools take part in trap shooting PAGE B1 Parsons to tear down old school PAGE A2 SCOTUS rules on water rights case PAGE A4 Locally owned since 1867 Friday, June 23, 2023 iolaregister.com Especially good at expectorating Halie Luken, left, reacts to a prompt from fellow improv actor Rhiannon Jordan, who insists she clean her hands by spitting on them, at a weekly improv night gathering on Wednesday. Iola Community Theatre will have an improv showcase at 7 p.m. Saturday at the ICT Warehouse Theatre, 203 S. Jefferson Ave. The event will feature a variety of improv games and acts from new and returning ICT actors. Tickets are $10 each and the show is recommended for those age 14 and older. The improv group meets at 6:30 p.m.
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Piqua State Bank employees Sue Martin, left, and Mary Lou Stotler work at the Piqua branch of the Piqua State Bank. With the Piqua branch’s closure on June 30, Stotler will retire and Martin will soon move to the Yates Center and Gas branches. REGISTER/RICHARD LUKEN

Obituary

Charlene Tripp

She was born on June 18, 1938, to Kenneth and Helen Lasater, in Chanute.

She married John Henry Tripp Jr. on Nov. 1, 1959, in Pittsburg.

Charlene was preceded in death by her parents; and her husband.

Survivors include her children, Suzanne (Steve) Pantano of Connecticut; Joanna Tripp of St. Joseph, Missouri; Christopher Tripp of Kansas City, Kansas; and five grandchildren.

Graveside services will be at 10 a.m. Friday, June 23, at Highland Cemetery, Iola. Memorials are suggested to the Alzheimer’s Association, and may be left with Feuerborn Family Funeral Service, 1883 US Hwy 54, Iola, KS 66749.

Library programs ahead

Summer is here and the library’s Summer Learning Program is in full swing.

On Monday at 2 p.m., teens are invited to make a “Galaxy in a bottle” with Lesa Cole. All supplies are provided.

Also on Monday, visitors can sharpen their strategies at Chess Club at 6 p.m. and needle craft skills at In Stitches at 6:30.

Drop-in coloring “therapy” sessions are set for teens on Tuesday at 3 p.m. and for adults on Wednesday at 6 p.m.

Megan Hageman from Southeast Kansas Mental Health Center will lead a guided meditation workshop on Wednesday at 6:30 p.m.

Come create at Crafternoon with Lesa Cole on Thursday at 2 p.m., and on Saturday, July 1 from 1 to 4 p.m. ACARF will have a Pet Adoption and Microchipping event on the east lawn of the library. Learn more about upcoming programs at iolapubliclibrary.org.

Area news

Parsons BOE votes to demolish old school building PARSONS — A school building that has been shuttered since 1999 will be demolished.

Parson USD 503 members voted, 5-2, Tuesday to have the old Washington School

Humboldt among K-State visit sites

MANHATTAN —

Allen County will be the first stop for Kansas State University officials this fall for what is the second year of community visits across Kansas. The initiative focuses on the communities of Kansas.

“A next-generation land-grant university listens to the people it serves, and that’s exactly what we are trying to do through this community visit initia-

tive,” said K-State President Richard Linton. “We’re the university for Kansans, and our first year of community visits was a vital opportunity for us to engage with thousands of people in 73 counties across the state. I can’t wait to build on that momentum and connect with communities that represent the remaining 32

counties so that we can paint all 105 counties purple in the upcoming academic year.”

Richard Linton

The 2023-2024 academic year will include visits to Allen County, Barton County, Ellis County, Jackson County, Norton County, Phillips County, Reno County, Seward County and Smith County.

K-State will stop in Humboldt on Oct. 4-5. Exact locations and additional event details about each visit will be provided later.

Each visit will in-

clude activities to engage with Kansans in the surrounding region. Linton and K-State Connected ‘Cats students will lead several events, including community conversations, recruitment activities and events to highlight university partnerships and K-State Research and Extension relationships.

The events for each regional community visit will be free and open to all Kansans: community members, leaders, families, current and future students, and parents.

NTSB looks at train derailment’s aftermath

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) —

The fire chiefs whose departments were the first on scene of February’s fiery train derailment in eastern Ohio agree that firefighters need more training about hazardous chemicals, but that it would be hard for them ever to be fully prepared to deal with a disaster of this magnitude.

The National Transportation Safety Board is holding a two-day field hearing in East Palestine, Ohio, on the Feb. 3 Norfolk Southern derailment. Thursday’s proceedings are focused on the emergency response to the derailment and the crucial decision officials made three days later to release the toxic vinyl chloride from five tank cars and burn it to keep them from exploding.

That move sent a towering plume of black smoke over the town near the Ohio-Pennsylvania border and prompted the evacuation of about half of East Palestine’s 5,000 residents. Officials have defended that decision as the best option when faced with the prospect of an explosion that would have sent shrapnel into the town.

But residents have many questions about

torn down.

The building had been used as storage for years, but was due to have asbestos removed in July, the Parsons Sun reported. Plans changed as the district looked at the cost of removing the asbestos, which would be roughly $20,000

Public notices

This photo taken with a drone shows portions of a Norfolk Southern freight train that derailed Feb. 3, in East Palestine, Ohio, are still on fire on Feb. 4. AP FILE PHOTO/GENE J. PUSKAR

possible lingering health effects even though state and federal officials say tests show the air and water in town remains safe.

East Palestine Fire Chief Keith Drabick said there was a consensus in the command center that releasing the chemicals from the cars and burning them was the “least bad option.” But Drabick and other first responders who testified at the hearing agreed that firefighters need more training — particularly volunteer firefighters who were first on the scene after the derailment — on how to handle hazardous

less expensive if remediation was part of demolition vs. remediation, the newspaper reported.

The district had been hesitant to remove the structure because of community attachment, and the thought other entities may wish to acquire it, the news-

materials.

“I don’t think you can ever be prepared for something like this,” Drabick said.

Ohio officials said volunteer firefighters receive only 36 hours of initial training when they are certified — significantly less than the 200 hours professional firefighters receive — and that no hazardous materials training is included.

The fire chiefs said the initial response to the derailment was complicated because the radios used by the different departments don’t work with each other. It also took some

paper reported. However, a new state law going into effect July 1 would allow the State Legislature the right of first refusal if a shuttered school is put up for sale, the Sun reported.

The demolition option was approved with a 5-2 vote.

time for emergency responders to find out exactly what the train was carrying because the first firefighters on scene didn’t have access to the AskRail app that railroads developed to provide that information. The train crew that had that information was a mile away after moving the locomotive and didn’t immediately connect with first responders.

Drabick said it took about 45 minutes for his department to gather information about what was on the train.

The railroad has been digging up and removing contaminated soil and water from the

derailment site. The Environmental Protection Agency and Ohio officials are overseeing the cleanup.

Norfolk Southern has committed more than $62 million to helping the town recover. The railroad has said it expects the derailment will eventually cost it nearly $400 million, although insurance will cover some of that and any other companies that are found responsible may have to contribute. The cost is expected to increase as lawsuits filed by states, the federal government and residents work their way through the courts.

ALLEN COUNTY, KANSAS, commonly known as 515 W Pine, Gas, KS 66742 (the “Property”) to satisfy the judgment in the above-entitled case. The sale is to be made without appraisement and subject to the redemption period as provided by law, and further subject to the approval of the Court. For more information, visit www.Southlaw.com

Bryan J. Murphy, Sheriff Allen County, Kansas

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NOTICE OF PROPOSED BANK MERGER

Notice is hereby given that the Bank of Commerce, Chanute, Kansas has made application to the State Bank Commissioner, Topeka, Kansas, for written consent to merge with The Piqua State Bank, Gas, Kansas.

300, Topeka, Kansas, 666033796. The comment period will end July 18, 2023. Public comments may be subject to disclosure pursuant to the Kansas Open Records Act; K.S.A. 45-201 et. seq. For information about submitting a request for records, please refer to: https://www.osbckansas. org/consumers/open-records-requests/ (Published in The Iola Register June 23, 2023) IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF ALLEN COUNTY, KANSAS CIVIL DEPARTMENT Matrix Financial Services Corporation Plaintiff, vs. Jordan D. Hacker; Shelby L. Hacker; John Doe (Tenant/Occupant); Mary Doe (Tenant/Occupant) Defendants. Case No. AL-2023-CV-000018 Court Number: Pursuant to K.S.A. Chapter 60 NOTICE OF SALE Under and by virtue of an Order of Sale issued to me by the Clerk of the District Court of Allen County, Kansas, the undersigned Sheriff of Allen County, Kansas, will offer for sale at public auction and sell to the highest bidder for cash in hand, at the Front Door of the Courthouse at Iola Allen

Date of First County, Kansas, on July 19, 2023, at 10:00 AM, the following real estate: LOTS ONE (1), TWO (2), AND THREE (3), BLOCK NINETEEN (19), OVERSTREET’S SECOND ADDITION TO THE CITY OF GAS,

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It is contemplated that all of the offices of the above-named institutions will continue to be operated with the exception of the Piqua State Bank office located at 1356 Xylan Rd, Piqua, Kansas, which the Target Bank has scheduled to close prior to the time of the merger. This notice is published pursuant to Kansas Statutes Annotated 9-1724. Any person wishing to comment on this application may file his or her comments in writing with the State Bank Commissioner, 700 Jackson, Suite Publication: June 23, 2023 Applicant Bank: Bank of Commerce Location: 101 W. Main Street, Chanute, Kansas Target Bank: The Piqua State Bank Location: 301 W. 1st Street, Gas, Kansas (6) 23 (7) 7
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Charlene Helen Lasater Tripp, age 85, died on Monday, June 19, 2023, at LaVerna Senior Living in Savannah, Mo.

Abortion: A year after end of Roe, states tighten restrictions

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shifting ground doctors and their patients tried to navigate.

At the same time, abortion opponents who worked for decades to abolish a practice they see as murder cheered the Supreme Court’s Dobbs ruling. Anti-abortion groups said the 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling that legalized abortion nationwide was undemocratic because it prevented states from enacting bans.

“The Dobbs decision was a democratic victory for life that generations fought for,” said E.V. Osment, a spokeswoman for Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America, a major anti-abortion group. While some states scrambled to pass new restrictions, others already had enacted laws that were designed to take effect if the court overturned Roe.

More than 25 million women ages 15 to 44, or about 2 in 5 nationally, now live in states where there are more restrictions on abortion access than there were before Dobbs. More than 5.5 million more live in states where restrictions have been adopted but are on hold pending court challenges. Bans on abortion no later than 12 weeks into pregnancy are on the books in nearly every state in the Southeast — though some are not in effect.

Many laws that make exceptions for medical emergencies do not clearly define those situations. After Davis went public with her challenges last year, Louisiana lawmakers debated whether doctors in the state were right to deny her an abortion under a law that has exceptions for “medically futile” pregnancies and when there’s a substantial risk of death or impairment for the woman. But the Legislature made no changes to clarify the law.

Davis is among a number of women who ended up traveling out of state to have a legal surgical abortion. She got help from a fund that raises money for women to travel for such purposes.

With her fiancé by her side, Davis flew to New York in September, when she was about four months pregnant. The whole experience was heartbreaking, she said.

“A mother’s love starts as soon as she knows she’s pregnant. That attachment starts instantly,” she said. “It was days I couldn’t sleep. It was days I couldn’t eat.”

ABORTION ACCESS HAS BEEN PROTECTED IN 20 STATES

As some states restricted abortion, others locked in access. Clinics moved across state lines, added staff and lengthened hours to accommodate women leaving their home states to end their pregnancies.

In 25 states, abortion remains generally legal up to at least 24 weeks of pregnancy. In 20 of those states, protections have been solidified through constitutional amendments or laws. Officials in many of those states, including California, Colorado, Minnesota, New Mexico and New York, have explicitly invited women from places where the procedure is banned.

Women have flocked to states with legal access.

CHOICES Center for Reproductive Health had for decades treated patients in Memphis, Tennessee, some seeking abortions. After Tennessee’s abortion ban kicked in last year, the clinic opened a second outpost that’s about a three-hour drive away, in Carbondale, Illinois, a state that has positioned itself as an oasis for abortion access.

“I would say 80% or more of our patients continue to come from the communities that CHOICES has always taken care of,” said CEO Jennifer Pepper, who said the Illinois clinic sees on average 350 patients a month. “They’re coming from Tennessee, Mississippi, Arkansas and even Texas, but now they’re having to travel much farther.”

Kansas is one of the closest places to obtain abortions for people in parts of Missouri, Arkansas, Oklahoma and Texas. A new clinic opened in Kansas

City, Kansas, four days before Dobbs. Within weeks, the clinic was overwhelmed. Even after lengthening hours, hiring staff and flying in physicians, it’s been able to take only about 10% to 15% of people who have sought an abortion there.

Dr. Iman Alsaden, the Planned Parenthood medical director based in Kansas, said most patients in the Kansas clinics are now coming from elsewhere.

“You’re in a really, really dire public health situation when you are looking at someone who had to jump through endless amounts of hoops just to make this work and saying they’re so lucky they’re able to do this,” Alsaden said.

In anticipation of out-of-state patients, states such as Hawaii have passed laws to allow more health care workers, such as nurse practitioners, to provide abortions. In New Jersey, officials late last year announced a grant to train more medical professionals to perform the procedures.

THE NUMBER OF ABORTIONS IS NOT CLEAR

Because of reporting lags and gaps in data, the impact on the number of abortions provided across the U.S. is not completely clear.

But the authors of #WeCount, a survey conducted for the Society of Family Planning, a nonprofit organization that promotes research and supports abortion access, say the monthly average went down after Dobbs.

The group’s data finds that the number of abortions provided through clinics, hospitals and other providers in states where bans were put in place plummeted to nearly zero. The tracking effort collects monthly

The #WeCount survey of abortion providers has found that the overall average number of abortions at clinics and hospitals was lower in the months after the Dobbs ruling, from July 2022 through March but that the number of abortions has risen dramatically in states that border those with no access, such as Illinois, Kansas, New Mexico and North Carolina. In Illinois, for instance, the survey tallied about 5,600 abortions in April 2022 and more than 7,900 in March 2023.

PILLS ARE AN EVEN MORE DOMINANT ABORTION METHOD

data, providing a snapshot of abortion trends after Roe v. Wade was overturned. It does not reflect self-managed abortions, relies on estimates in places where providers do not supply data and does not fully account for seasonal differences in pregnancies or abortions.

Still, it’s the fullest national picture available for now. The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data covering 2022 is not likely to be released until late 2024. Even then, the picture won’t be completely clear: Not every state collects abortion data, and what is collected does not include self-managed abortions provided outside clinics, hospitals and doctor’s offices.

In Louisiana, where abortion was legal until 22 weeks’ gestational age before Dobbs, the state reported more than 7,400 abortions in 2020, the last year for which full data was available. #WeCount found there were an average of 785 a month in April and May 2022 — and fewer than 10 every month since the ban there has been in place. There are similar trends elsewhere. In Idaho, 1,700 abortions were reported in 2020, and #WeCount found fewer than 10 a month recently. In Texas, state data shows only a handful of abortions monthly from August through January. Before restrictions there took effect in 2021, there were often more than 5,000 per month.

Even before the court ruled, most abortions in the U.S. were done through a two-pill regimen, not a surgical procedure. Now groups are using medication to provide access — however illegal -- in states where abortion is banned.

For example, Aid Access works with doctors overseas and in states with shield laws, which are intended to bar abortion-related investigations by other states. Those doctors prescribe the medications and Aid Access ships them. It saw requests in a sample of 30 states more than double from before a draft of the Dobbs ruling was leaked last year until it became official and bans started taking effect.

The group’s Netherlands-based founder and director, Rebecca Gomperts, believes most U.S. women who want abortions are still managing to get them.

“The fact that the abortion pill is available,” she said, “that makes the tragic of it much less profound.”

Still, she said, those who struggle the most for access are poor and Black women.

The move from surgical to medication abortion has frustrated abortion opponents, who have taken their case to court. Some abortion opponents are calling for the abortion drug mifepristone to lose its 23-year-old approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. The Supreme Court has preserved ac-

cess for now.

SOME STATES ARE INCREASING SUPPORT FOR MOMS AND CHILDREN

One ripple from overturning Roe in conservative states has been a new willingness to adopt measures such as improving foster care and benefits for postpartum women.

Mississippi, where the Dobbs case originated, is a key example. Republican Gov. Tate Reeves signed off on several proposals that he deemed as the “next phase” of the “pro-life agenda.” This included expanding a tax credit from $3.5 million a year to $10 million a year for people or businesses who donate to anti-abortion centers, which provide diapers, clothing and other assistance for pregnant women and have been accused of providing misleading information to steer women away from abortion. He also approved creating an income tax credit of up to $10,000 for adopting a child who lives in Mississippi and $5,000 for a adopting a child from outside the state.

He also agreed to extend Medicaid health insurance coverage for lower-income women until a year after they give birth, rather than just two months.

The state’s two Catholic bishops sent a letter to lawmakers and Reeves in February calling for the Medicaid expansion.

“This they felt was consistent with the intent of Dobbs,” Jackson Bishop Joseph Kopacz said in an interview, “saying that it can’t stop at birth.”

For Shannon Bagley, the executive director of the Center for Pregnancy Choices, an anti-abortion center just outside Jackson that will benefit from the expanded tax credit, said it’s offering more parenting classes and focusing on helping eligible women sign up for Medicaid, job search assistance and offering donated car seats, cribs and other baby items.

“This is a new era and we’re going to have to be more and we’re going to have to do more,” she said.

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Supreme Court rules against Navajo Nation in water rights case

WASHINGTON (AP)

— The Supreme Court ruled against the Navajo Nation on Thursday in a dispute involving water from the drought-stricken Colorado River.

States that draw water from the river — Arizona, Nevada and Colorado — and water districts in California that are also involved in the case had urged the court to decide for them, which the justices did in a 5-4 ruling. Colorado had argued that siding with the Navajo Nation would undermine existing agreements and disrupt the management of the river.

The Biden administration had said that if the court were to come down in favor of the Navajo Nation, the federal government could face lawsuits from many other tribes.

Lawyers for the Nava-

jo Nation had characterized the tribe’s request as modest, saying they simply were seeking an assessment of the tribe’s water needs and a plan to meet them.

The facts of the case go back to treaties that the tribe and the federal government signed in 1849 and 1868. The second treaty established the reservation as the

tribe’s “permanent home” — a promise the Navajo Nation says includes a sufficient supply of water. In 2003 the tribe sued the federal government, arguing it had failed to consider or protect the Navajo Nation’s water rights to the lower portion of the Colorado River.

Writing for a majority made up of conservative

justices, Justice Brett Kavanaugh explained that “the Navajos contend that the treaty requires the United States to take affirmative steps to secure water for the Navajos — for example, by assessing the Tribe’s water needs, developing a plan to secure the needed water, and potentially building pipelines, pumps, wells, or

other water infrastructure.”

But, Kavanaugh said, “In light of the treaty’s text and history, we conclude that the treaty does not require the United States to take those affirmative steps.”

Kavanaugh acknowledged that water issues are difficult ones.

“Allocating water in the arid regions of the American West is often a zero-sum situation,” he wrote. It is important, he said, for courts to leave “to Congress and the President the responsibility to enact appropriations laws and to otherwise update federal law as they see fit in light of the competing contemporary needs for water.”

A federal trial court initially dismissed the lawsuit, but an appeals court allowed it to go forward. The Supreme Court’s decision reverses that ruling from the appeals court. In a dissent, Justice

Neil Gorsuch wrote that he would have allowed the case to go forward and he characterized the Navajo’s position as a “simple ask.”

“Where do the Navajo go from here?” he wrote. “To date, their efforts to find out what water rights the United States holds for them have produced an experience familiar to any American who has spent time at the Department of Motor Vehicles. The Navajo have waited patiently for someone, anyone, to help them, only to be told (repeatedly) that they have been standing in the wrong line and must try another.”

Gorsuch said one “silver lining” of the case may be that his colleagues in the majority recognized that the tribe may still be able to “assert the interests they claim in water rights litigation, including by seeking to intervene in cases that affect their claimed interests.”

Budget: Administrator, Council debate how to raise revenue

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ning in recent years has come at a cost, mainly by preventing departments from setting aside funds for equipment reserves.

Tacking on a 5½-mill property tax increase would bring in roughly $160,000, and would allow for such things as the Fire Department to begin saving up for construction of a new storage facility for some of its equipment, and to replace equipment such as new gas masks and airpacks.

The proposal didn’t sit well with Councilman Carl Slaugh.

“My bottom line, I would not like to see a mill levy increase,” Slaugh said. “I think we should deal with whatever increased (funding) comes from our higher assessed valuation for next year.”

If a city’s assessed valuation increases, it means more dollars per mill.

Rehder said he expected Iola’s valuation to go up, but not substantially, and not enough to cover what is needed for each department that relies on the general fund.

“I feel like where we are expense-wise in our general fund, is that these are reasonable

(budget) requests,” Rehder said. “This is not an expense problem. This is a revenue problem.”

Council members debated the urgency of replacing personal protective equipment, such as airpacks.

Iola Fire Chief Corey Isbell noted equipment such as that has a shelf life before it risks being decertified, and thus must be replaced.

And while the city has used grant funds for such gear in the past, that revenue isn’t guaranteed, because grants have become highly competitive, Isbell noted.

In fact, the last such grant Iola received for bunker gear was more than 10 years ago, Isbell added.

That debate touched a nerve with Councilwoman Joelle Shallah.

“I don’t know why we’re arguing pennies on equipment,” she said. “We don’t argue pennies on equipment for a mower. Our top priority should be the safety of our fire and EMS and police department. … They’re coming to us with recommendations so we can make these decisions.

But we’re not out there risking our lives every day.”

for such gear, she said, “is appalling to me.”

“I’m not questioning bunker gear or ballistic vests,” Slaugh said.

But he did have an issue with spending money on a new facility to house such equipment as the Fire Department’s tanker truck, which is too large to fit at IFD headquarters.

The tanker, and other equipment, is stored at a county facility on North State Street. (As an aside, the newly adopted city-county EMS agreement means the city can continue to store its equipment there. Had the deal expired, Iola would have had to find a new location.)

Shallah and Councilwoman Kim Peterson were both more amenable to Slaugh’s suggestion that the city continue to store its tanker at the county facility, and worry about building

anew later.

Speaking of the fire/ EMS, Isbell pointed out IFD’s budget request for 2024 included paying for a staff of 31 employees.

However, it will likely be some time for the city to get that many on staff, he added, as the city continues to struggle to find personnel for both ambulance and fire protection.

SLAUGH said a hefty mill levy increase could be avoided by hiking other fees, such as increasing trash collection fees from $12 a month to $15, which would bring in about $80,000 — the equivalent of more than 2 mills.

“Our trash service fee is significantly less than average,” Slaugh noted. “To me, it’s more palatable to have an increase in that fee than an increase in mill levy. I just don’t want to see the

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Curry following his retirement from the Army in 1971.

mill levy go up.”

Rehder noted trash fee hikes would cover roughly half of the proposed mill levy hike.

But he noted the city’s reluctance to increase the mill levy in the past — last year’s 6-mill hike notwithstanding — has come at a cost.

“We are still borrowing from other funds to pay for it,” Rehder said. “We’ve been under-funding the General Fund for a very long time. A perfect example is the Fire Department. When I got here, there was not a dime in the reserve fund for the Fire Department. In the past, when we needed to purchase equipment for the Fire Department,

the other equipment reserves were wiped clean to buy it.

“Our opinion — mine, Corey (Schinstock, assistant city administrator) and the department heads — is our expenses are where they need to be,” Rehder continued. “These are reasonable requests. What we don’t have is the money to pay for it.”

If a trash fee hike is approved, Rehder said he could do some “budget gymnastics” to make up the other $80,000 or so needed to put the budget into balance.

“But we’re robbing Peter to pay Paul,” he warned. “And eventually, Peter’s gonna have to get paid again.”

To question the need

The bank has remained with the Curry family since then, with several family members still employed with PSB.

CURRY said other details about the proposed merger, if approved, will be settled later, such as bank routing numbers, etc.

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“For example,” it read. “A group of beneficiaries that were identified as moving out of Kansas were not properly processed, resulting in an estimated overpayment of $1,370,376.68 in capitation payment to MCOs.”

The news release also said the audit reported “some control weaknesses, policy issues, and gaps in guidance or protocols for coordinating the assessment

and collection of any overpayments related to out-of-state residency that Kansas needs to improve.”

KDHE secretary Janet Stanek said in the news release that she and Gov. Laura Kelly appreciate the partnership with the attorney general’s office to increase the efficiency of Medicaid.

“We agree that with the limited state and federal information sources available to the Medicaid program, challenges remain in the timely determination of whether or not a Medicaid beneficiary has moved out of state is very difficult with the information sources available to us,” Stanek said.

Heather will remain with Bank of Commerce and manage the Gas and Yates Center branches.

With the closure of the Piqua branch, one employee, Mary Lou Stotler, is retiring. The other full-time employee there, Sue Martin, will work out of both the Yates Center and Gas branches. department’s system has improved since 2019, “internal and external deficiencies that hinder KDHE’s ability to identify, verify and terminate Medicaid eligibility on a timely basis” still exist.

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Caregiver role of mother-in-law came as a shock

In July 2020, my motherin-law’s senior living facility was breached by COVID-19. We had been talking on the phone with her daily since the facility went into lockdown in March of that same year. At 96, she was still mobile and able to live independently. Before COVID, we had purchased a laptop for her to use to Skype with the grandkids. We taught her how to use it and, for a while, she did.

After lockdown was initiated, she had trouble organizing her medications. No one at the facility wanted to take responsibility for helping her. We developed a process in which she would set her medications outside her door in the hallway and one of the people working there would pick them up and bring them out to me as I sat in my car in the parking lot. They would leave them on the ground by my car, and after they left I would open my door, wipe everything off, organize her medicine, re-wipe all the containers, then drop them off outside the front door to be picked up and delivered back to her.

After a few weeks of lockdown and being confined to her room, we could tell that she wasn’t as mentally acute as she had been. She had forgotten how to use Skype, and no matter how hard we tried to refresh her memory, she just couldn’t get the hang of it. So, we talked on the phone. Every day she would say she was doing fine.

there and just didn’t eat. I had taken care of my own mother when I was in my 30s and my father when I was in my 40s, but now that I was in my 60s and finding myself as the caregiver again, things looked different. I wasn’t able to do the lifting I did 20 years earlier. It was clear I needed help.

FINDING QUALITY inhome care is a monumental task. As former chair of the Johnson County Commission on Aging, I pride myself on being informed about aging issues and up-to-date on the variety of resources available to caregivers. What I discovered was: I didn’t have a clue.

As a former chair of the Johnson County Commission on Aging, I pride myself on being informed about aging issues and up-to-date on available resources for caregivers. What I discovered was: I didn’t have a clue.

When it happens to you, when your loved one becomes the one needing care and you become the caregiver (literally overnight), things look a lot different. The sense of urgency is overwhelming. Panic sets in. I was fortunate enough to have contacts in the county and a wonderful family doctor who put me in touch with an in-home care business. However, at $25 an hour daily, the costs added up quickly.

Kennedy’s candidacy is scary

It’s a serious sign of something when as many as 20% of registered Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents tell pollsters they support Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for the Democratic presidential nomination.

Perhaps it’s a sign that their brains have been addled by Wi-Fi radiation coming at them from their cellphones, something Kennedy claims happens all the time.

Or maybe it’s a sign that 5G high-speed transmission towers are warping people’s abilities to think clearly, yet another favorite Kennedy conspiracy theory.

More likely, in my view, it’s a sign that some Democrats are worried about President Joe Biden’s advanced age, and that a (slightly) younger man from a beloved Democratic political dynasty seems at first glance to offer a reasonable alternative.

Do not be fooled.

ing puffcast.

“Now you’ve gone beyond my expertise,” replied Kennedy.

No duh.

Kennedy wants to seal our southern border “permanently.” He believes antidepressants are responsible for mass shootings. (“Prior to the introduction of Prozac, we had almost none of these events,” he told Elon Musk earlier this month during a Twitter Spaces conversation.)

He believes that his father, Robert F. Kennedy, and his uncle, President John F. Kennedy, were assassinated by the CIA, and he told Rogan that he, RFK Jr., could be an intelligence agency target as well. (“I’m aware of that danger,” said Kennedy. “I don’t live in fear of it, at all, but I’m not stupid about it, and I take precautions.”)

distrust COVID-19 vaccines, comparing them to the horrific Tuskegee syphilis study, in which over a period of 40 years, hundreds of Black men were denied medical treatment for syphilis without their knowledge, while public health officials studied the disease.

And yet, in 2021, when he and his third wife, the “Curb Your Enthusiasm” actor Cheryl Hines, threw a holiday party at their Brentwood home, guests were instructed to be tested for or vaccinated against COVID-19.

“I guess I’m not always the boss at my own house,” Kennedy told Politico.

Then, in July 2020, we received a call telling us that, despite their best efforts, the facility had an outbreak of COVID-19. In that moment, I knew we had to get her out of there. I called her and told her to pack her medications and anything else she could get in a suitcase. The next morning, with the help of masked and gloved staff members, we were able to get her into the car. Before leaving, they performed a mandatory COVID test on her. It took six days to get the results. She was negative.

Her first day with us I noticed a significant decline. She wasn’t as mobile as she was when we last saw her.

We immediately called a handyman to come install grab bars on every wall in the bathroom and shower. The next day I realized that she was having trouble showering. She couldn’t get herself clean and needed help with the simplest of tasks. I discovered that although I had been organizing her medications for her, she was forgetting to take them.

She had also lost weight. Although the facility had cancelled all dining room activities, they were still delivering meals to her door. She sometimes forgot they were

We were blessed to have my mother-in-law with us for nine months. I am so thankful she didn’t die alone or in a nursing facility.

People are living longer now. With baby boomers quickly becoming the largest section of our population, we need to be proactive in our efforts to find ways to help our seniors grow old in their own homes. The current cost of a nursing home hovers around $100,000 per year. It seems to me it would be much cheaper and much better for our seniors if we can figure out a way to deliver quality care at home and provide assistance to family caregivers.

Our elected officials should be willing to have difficult conversations and put the welfare of one of our most vulnerable populations front and center. Sticking our heads in the sand and hoping the problem goes away won’t work. The gray tsunami is coming for us all, and we need to be prepared to handle it.

About the author: Pam Shernuk served on the Johnson County Commission on Aging for seven years, two years as vice-chair and twoand-a-half years as chair. She currently serves on the board of directors for Kansas Advocates for Better Care.

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Robert Kennedy Jr. is off his rocker.

It’s not totally obvious at first, which is why there is a bit of cognitive dissonance at play. Kennedy, after all, with his Kennedy-esque full head of hair, piercing blue eyes and blinding white smile, looks like presidential material. He is an environmental attorney who has spent decades crusading for a cleaner environment (although detractors say he has done more harm than good, or taken credit where none has been earned). His liberal bona fides seem in good order. He has spoken of closing the wealth gap, of restoring our “hollowed-out” middle class, of the urgency of confronting global warming, and so on.

With his Kennedy-esque full head of hair, piercing blue eyes and blinding white smile, Robert Kennedy Jr. looks like presidential material. Do not be fooled. He is off his rocker.

He has questioned the scientifically unassailable relationship between HIV and AIDS. He has written a popular book demonizing Dr. Anthony Fauci, accusing the former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases of sabotaging treatments for AIDS, and trashing him as “a powerful technocrat who helped orchestrate and execute 2020’s historic coup d’etat against Western democracy.” (Fauci has called Kennedy “a very disturbed individual.” I am on Team Fauci.)

Most dangerously, of course, Kennedy is a fount of anti-vaccine misinformation. He has embraced the prolifically debunked claim that vaccines cause autism. He is chairman of Children’s Health Defense, a virulently anti-vax group that positions itself, per its website, as “the global uprising against medical tyranny to defend human rights.”

And yet, when he opens his mouth, as he did for more than three hours on Joe Rogan’s podcast the other day, the inanities that come out are positively Trump-esque.

“Wi-Fi radiation opens your blood-brain barrier, and all these toxins that are in your body can now go into your brain,” he told Rogan.

“How does Wi-Fi open up your blood-brain barrier?”

Rogan asked, in perhaps his most incisive follow-up question of the entire fawn-

The group is a mega-spreader of vaccine disinformation on social media sites like Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. In one Facebook post, Kennedy claimed — without evidence — that COVID-19 vaccine is not safe for pregnant women. Studies have shown there is no specific vaccine risk to pregnant women.

Kennedy has also encouraged Black Americans, who have suffered disproportionately from COVID-19, to

ONCE YOU GET on the anti-vax bandwagon, I guess it makes sense to blame almost all physical problems on immunization. Kennedy has even suggested that vaccines may have caused the disorder that affects his larynx, spasmodic dysphonia, making his voice sound tremulous or strained. In 2007, though, he did not contradict Oprah Winfrey when, during an interview, she asked him about his “genetic neurological condition” and he replied that it came on when he was in his early 40s. By 2021, however, he told a podcaster he thought a flu shot may have caused it.

It is true that vaccination carries a vanishingly small amount of risk, and there are some cases of children experiencing injury from vaccines, but the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that childhood vaccines save at least 4 million lives worldwide a year, and adult vaccination also saves multitudes each year.

On the campaign trail, Kennedy has mostly downplayed his aversion to vaccines. Democrats, after all, are way more likely than Republicans to embrace vaccination. In a recent NBC News profile of Kennedy, reporter Brandy Zadrozny mentioned a Facebook group of Kennedy supporters who have decided to label their candidate a “Vaccine Safety Advocate” as a way of making his anti-vax sentiments more palatable to Democratic voters.

Well, you can call him anything you want. His views are dangerous and he belongs nowhere near the White House, or any position of real political power. He’s already done enough damage. Kennedy dynasty, schmynasty.

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Coast Guard: Submersible implodes near Titanic wreckage; kills 5 aboard

The U.S. Coast Guard says a missing submersible imploded near the wreckage of the Titanic, killing all five people on board.

Coast Guard officials said during a news conference Thursday that they’ve notified the families of the crew of the Titan, which has been missing for several days. Debris found during the search for the vessel “is consistent with a catastrophic implosion of the vessel,” said Rear Adm. John Mauger of the First Coast Guard District.

“The outpouring of support in this highly complex search operation has been great appreciated. Our most heartfelt condolences go out to the friends and loved ones of the crew,” Mauger said.

OceanGate Expeditions said in a statement that all five people on board, including company CEO Stockton Rush, are believed to be dead.

Rush, Shahzada Dawood and his son Suleman Dawood, Hamish Harding, and Paul-Henri Nargeolet “have sadly been lost,” OceanGate said in a statement.

OceanGate did not provide details when the company announced the “loss of life” in a statement or how officials knew the crew members perished. The Titan’s 96hour oxygen supply likely ended early Thursday.

OceanGate has been chronicling the Titanic’s decay and the underwater ecosystem around it via yearly voyages since 2021.

The Titan was estimated to have about a fourday supply of breathable air when it launched Sunday morning in the North Atlantic — but experts have emphasized that was an imprecise approximation to begin with and could be extended if passengers have taken measures to conserve breathable air. And it’s not known if they survived since the sub’s disappearance.

Rescuers have rushed ships, planes and other equipment to the site of the disappearance. On Thursday, the U.S. Coast Guard said an undersea robot sent by a Canadian ship had reached the sea floor, while a French research institute said a deep-diving robot with cameras, lights and arms also joined the operation.

Authorities have been hoping underwater sounds might help narrow their search, whose coverage area has been

House censures Rep. Adam Schiff

WASHINGTON (AP)

— The House voted Wednesday to censure California Rep. Adam Schiff for comments he made several years ago about investigations into Donald Trump’s ties to Russia, rebuking the Democrat and frequent critic of the former president along party lines.

Undated handout photo shows Titan, the submersible that vanished on an expedition to the Titanic wreckage. A massive search and rescue operation was conducted in the mid-Atlantic after a tourist submarine went missing during a dive to Titanic’s wreck on Sunday. (OCEANGATE/ZUMA PRESS WIRE/ TNS)

expanded to thousands of miles — twice the size of Connecticut and in waters 2 1/2 miles deep.

Coast Guard officials said underwater noises were detected in the search area Tuesday and Wednesday.

Jamie Pringle, an expert in Forensic Geosciences at Keele University, in England, said even if the noises came from the submersible, “The lack of oxygen is key now; even if they find it, they still need to get to the surface and unbolt it.”

The Titan was reported overdue Sunday afternoon about 435 miles south of St. John’s, Newfoundland, as it was on its way to where the iconic ocean liner sank more than a century ago.

OceanGate Expeditions, which is leading the trip, has been chronicling the Titanic’s decay and the underwater ecosystem around it via yearly voyages since 2021.

By Thursday morning, hope was running out that anyone on board the vessel would be found alive.

Dr. Rob Larter, a marine geophysicist with the British Antarctic Survey, emphasized the difficulty of finding something the size of the submersible, which is about 22 feet long and 9 feet high.

“You’re talking about totally dark environments,” in which an object several dozen feet away can be missed, he said. “It’s just a needle in a haystack situation unless you’ve got a pretty precise location.”

Newly uncovered allegations suggest there had been significant warnings made about vessel safety during the submersible’s development.

Broadcasters around the world started newscasts at the critical hour Thursday with news of the submersible. The Saudi-owned satel-

lite channel Al Arabiya showed a clock on air counting down to their estimate of when the air could potentially run out.

Captain Jamie Frederick of the First Coast Guard District said a day earlier that authorities were still holding out hope of saving the five passengers onboard.

“This is a search-andrescue mission, 100%,” he said Wednesday.

Retired Navy Capt. Carl Hartsfield, now the director of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Systems Laboratory, said the sounds detected have been described as “banging noises,” but he warned that search crews “have to put the whole picture together in context and they have to eliminate potential manmade sources other than the Titan.” Frederick acknowledged Wednesday that authorities didn’t what the sounds were.

The report of sounds was encouraging to some experts because submarine crews unable to communicate with the surface are taught to bang on their submersible’s hull to be detected by sonar.

The U.S. Navy said in a statement Wednesday that it was sending a specialized salvage system that’s capable of hoisting “large, bulky and heavy undersea objects such as aircraft or small vessels.”

The Titan weighs 20,000 pounds. The U.S. Navy’s Flyaway Deep Ocean Salvage System is designed to lift up to 60,000 pounds, the Navy said on its website. Lost aboard the vessel is pilot Stockton Rush, the CEO of OceanGate. His passengers are: British adventurer Hamish Harding; Pakistani businessman Shahzada Dawood and his son Suleman; and French explorer and Titanic expert Paul-Henry Nargeolet.

Schiff becomes the 25th House lawmaker to be censured. He was defiant ahead of the vote, saying he will wear the formal disapproval as a “badge of honor” and charging his GOP colleagues of doing the former president’s bidding.

“I will not yield,” Schiff, who is running for the Senate in his home state, said during debate over the measure. “Not one inch.”

When it was time for Schiff to come to the

front of the chamber to be formally censured, immediately after the vote, the normally solemn ceremony turned into more of a celebratory atmosphere. Dozens of Democrats crowded to the front, clapping and cheering for Schiff and patting him on the back. They chanted “No!,” “Shame!” and “Adam! Adam!”

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., read the resolution out loud, as is tradition after a censure. But he only read part of the document before leaving the chamber as Democrats heckled and interrupted him.

“Censure all of us,” one Democrat yelled.

Schiff, the former Democratic chairman of the House Intelligence Committee and the lead prosecutor in Trump’s first impeach-

ment trial, has long been a top Republican political target. Soon after taking back the majority this year, Republicans blocked him from sitting on the intelligence panel.

More than 20 Republicans voted with Democrats last week to block the censure resolution, but they changed their votes this week after the measure’s sponsor, Republican Rep. Anna Paulina Luna of Florida, removed a provision that could have fined Schiff $16 million if the House Ethics Committee determined he lied. Several of the Republicans who voted to block the resolution last week said they opposed fining a member of Congress in that manner.

The final vote on Wednesday was 213-209 along party lines, with a handful of members voting present.

Tornadoes tear through Texas, kill 4

A line of severe storms produced what a meteorologist calls a rare combination of multiple tornadoes, hurricane-force winds and softball-sized hail in west Texas, killing at least four people, injuring nine and causing significant damage around the town of Matador, a meteorologist said Thursday.

A supercell developed about 8 p.m. Wednesday near Amarillo before striking the small town, said senior forecaster Matt Ziebell with the National Weather Service in Lubbock.

The storm later produced 109 mph winds at Jayton in addition to hail more than 4-inches wide, he said.

“That is certainly rare to see all at the same time, killer tornadoes, hurricane-force winds and softball-sized hail,” Zeibell said.

Wednesday “was definitely a rare combination of highend wind shear and storms of extreme instability,” according to Ziebell.

Ziebell said the weather service would send crews to survey the damage on Thursday and determine the strength of the tornadoes. Search and rescue efforts also continued, although no one is known to be missing, according to Texas Department of Public Safety Sgt. Johnny Bures.

“We want to make sure no one was passing through town, that was our concern,” Bures said. “That’s what we’re really double-checking for.”

The worst damage appeared to be in Matador — a town of about 570 people about 70 miles northeast of Lubbock in Motley County. Homes were damaged, buildings were flattened and power lines were snapped in half. A restaurant’s walls were all knocked down, but the booths remained standing in what was

called a “jaw-dropping” scene by Derek Delgado, a spokesman for Lubbock Fire Rescue, which is assisting the town.

“You would look on one side where we had a general merchandise store completely flattened to the ground but across the street, there’s a house that’s still standing and the vehicles haven’t even moved from the driveway,” Delgado said by telephone.

Power outages were widespread across the sparsely populated region.

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Sigg Motors 11, Community National Bank 1.

SCC, Humboldt aim for bullseye

A string of athletes from Humboldt and Southern Coffey County High Schools joined over 1,600 of their peers at the Kansas State High School Clay Target League state tournament last weekend in Sedgwick.

More than 100 high school teams competed. Humboldt finished in first place in the novice division with a team score of 361. Southern Coffey County placed second as a team in the junior varsity ranks.

Humboldt’s Helaina Chryssikos finished in first place in the high gun junior varsity girls class with a 90. Southern Coffey’s Josie Weers came

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in first place in the high gun novice girls division with an 85.

Humboldt On the high gun novice boards, Tyler Kepley led the Cubs tying for eighth place with a score of 76.

Other high gun novice finishers included: Owen Sicka, 73, tied for 12th; Anna Heisler, 73, 17th; Hunter Doolittle, 70, 24th; Rowan Grisier, 67, 31st; Tucker Wrestler, 63, 42nd; Kooper Welch and Avery Stricker (tied), 54, 70th; Seth Koch, 48, 91st; and Jace Warner, 28, 110th.

In the high gun junior varsity class, Helaina Chryssikos tied for eighth place with a 90. Other high gun junior varsity finishes included:

Thatcher Mueller, 84, tied for 27th; Kolton Hanson, 81, tied for 44th; Weston Johnson, 75, tied for 88th, Elizabeth White and Trewit Luedke, 71, tied for 124th; Sophia Barlow, 63, tied for 174th.

In the trap high gun varsity section, Jaryt Hess tied for eighth place shooting a 97. Other trap high gun varsity finishes were: Chris Holloway, 90, tied for 97th; Ty Shaughnessy, 88, tied for 132nd; Remington Strickler, 86, tied for 169th place; Javyn Hess, 86, tied for 169th; Cody Wille, 85, tied for 187th; Cody White, 83, tied for 222nd.

Shelby Shaughnessy, 82, tied for 241st; Carson Peters, 80, tied for 261st; Leah Mueller, 80, tied for 261st; Weston Cleaver, 78, tied for 285th;

Xander Sellman, 74, in 314th place; Nelson Stipp, 73, tied for 315th.

Southern Coffey County

The varsity Titans were out to defend their 2022 state title but were bested by 10 points to Wabaunsee. Southern Coffey placed seventh as a team with 447 of 500 broken targets.

Weers took her first place finish in the high gun novice girls standings with an 85. She finished in seventh overall when placed with her male counterparts. Also in the high gun novice section: Bristol Brooks, 69, came in eighth for the girls; Brantlee Jones, 58, tied for 104th; Landon Beddo, 49, tied for 143rd.

In the trap high gun junior varsity portion: Seth Gleue, 92, tied for third place; Cyrus Nickel, 90, tied for seventh; Olivia and Emily Ludolph, 82, tied for sixth place; Dergan True, 81, tied for ninth place.

Dakota Cookus, 80, tied for 86th; Lane Brooks, 79, tied for 96th; Treyton Houston, 79, tied for 96th; Karley Ohl, 62, tied for 218th; Tyler Rolf, 57, placed 233rd overall.

For the trap high gun varsity shooters: Jagger Jacobs, 95, tied for 24th; Charles Nickel, 93, tied for 52nd place; Hank Newton, 91, tied for 77th; Gage Nickel, 91, tied for 77th place.

Jalea True, 88, tied for ninth place among female varsity

Hits by Sigg Motors: Lyam Young, 2S, 2D; Sam Underhill, 2S, D; Owen Hesse, S, D; Brady Thomas, 3S; Lincoln Neely, 2S; Jaxon Berry, S; Michael Evans, 2S; Brigham Smith, 3S. Hits for CNB: Kanyon Blaufuss, S; Archie Specht, 2S; Gavin Granere, 2S. Nelson Quarries 11, Sonic Drive-In 1.

Hits by Nelson Quarries: Cav Nelson, S; Fisher Frazell, 3S; Abram Droessler 2S; Asaiah Lee, 4S, D; Konner Womelsdort, 4S; Dirks Carpenter, S, D; Henry Gabbert, 4S. Hits for Sonic: Owen McKinney, 2S; Cohen Sigg, 2S; Kaden Splechter, 2S; Grayson Lisher, S; Parker McKarnin, 2S; Craig Ballard, S.

Junior Pixie Sigg Motors 11, A&W

10. Hits for Sigg Motors: Harper Gabbert, 2S, D; Jocelyn Sandidge, S, 2D; Nellie Sigg, 2S; Ava Hesse, 3S; Ellie Sigg, 2S; Taelyn Johnson 2T. Hits for A&W: Kodi Barnett, 3S; Viviana Vargas-Garcia, 3S; Quincy Howard, S; Zerrell Young, T; Palmer Knight, D, T; Kai Griffeth, S; Emma Haines, S, D, T; Haley Benham, D; Briar Griffeth, 2S.

State Farm 3, Sigg Tire & Repair 9 Hits for State Farm: Braylee Bartholomew, S; Nova Bishop, S; Kate Murry, S; Zaylee Blazek, D, T; Carolyn Whitcomb, S, D; Annalyse Bedenbender, S. Hits for Sigg Tire: Madisyn McKinney, S, D; Alice Welch, S; Willa See REC | Page B6

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Court upholds man’s firearm conviction

WASHINGTON (AP)

— The Supreme Court has ruled that a man whose conviction on gun charges was called into question by a recent high court decision is out of luck.

The court’s conservatives were in the 6-3 majority Thursday against Marcus DeAngelo Jones, who was given a 27-year prison sentence for violating a federal law meant to keep guns out of the hands of people with previous criminal

convictions. Jones had argued for another chance to get his conviction thrown out following a 2019 court decision holding that prosecutors must prove that people charged with violating federal gun laws knew they were not allowed to have a weapon.

The three liberal justices wrote in dissent that the decision produces “bizarre outcomes” and “disturbing results.”

SAN FRANCISCO (AP)

— Microsoft on Thursday will try to gain clearance to complete a $69 billion takeover of video game maker Activision Blizzard in a legal showdown with U.S. regulators that will reshape a pastime that’s bigger than the movie and music industries combined.

The battle will pit Microsoft’s ambition to expand its video game imprint beyond its Xbox console against the U.S. Federal Trade

Bridge linking Ukraine, Crimea damaged

KYIV, Ukraine (AP)

— An explosion damaged a bridge that is one of the few links between Crimea and Ukraine’s mainland, Russia-backed officials said Thursday, while Ukraine’s prime minister appealed for patience as Kyiv’s armed forces move ahead with their closely watched counteroffensive.

Russian forces in Crimea, which Russia annexed in 2014, use the Chongar bridge to reach southern Ukraine’s Kherson province. Russia and Ukraine control different sides of the province, which is a focus of fighting and attacks as Ukrainian troops try to reclaim Russian-occupied territory.

Ukrainian authorities have said that for the country’s nearly 16-month war to end, Moscow must withdraw its forces from Crimea as well as from areas they seized during last year’s full-scale invasion.

The damage to the bridge was not severe and likely will be repaired within several days, according to Vladimir Konstantinov, chairman of Crimea’s parliament.

Vladimir Saldo, who heads the Russian-occupied parts of Kherson province, said the explosion appeared to have been caused by

a type of long-range cruise missile that both France and the U.K. have given to Ukraine’s military.

The claim could not be independently verified. Numerous military analysts have said recent Ukrainian actions in the country’s south and east indicated that Kyiv’s troops were in the beginning of a long-anticipated counteroffensive.

Asked about the reported damage to the Chongar Bridge, Andrii Yusov, a spokesperson for Ukraine’s Ministry of Defense Main Intelligence Directorate, did not confirm Ukraine’s involvement but said on TV that a blow to the span would be part of an “ongoing process.”

“If the stars are lit, it means it was done for a reason, right? We can only say that there will be a continuation,” Yusov said, paraphrasing the opening of a well-known work by Russian poet Vladimir Mayakovskyi.

Russian state news agency RIA-Novosti cited an unnamed representative of Russia’s Investigative Committee as saying Thursday that preliminary information indicates there were four missiles fired and the remains of one of them showed markings of being Frenchmade.

Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu alleged this week that Ukraine planned to use U.S.-made HIMARS and U.K.-provided Storm Shadow missiles to attack Russian territory, including Crimea. He warned that use of those missiles against targets outside the main war zone would “trigger immediate strikes on the decisionmaking centers on the territory of Ukraine.”

However, Shoigu on Thursday downplayed the importance of West-supplied advanced weapons like the Storm Shadow missiles.

“We understand that the quantity that will be delivered in 2023 and has already been delivered will not significantly affect the course of hostilities,” he said at a Russian Security Council meeting chaired by Russian President Vladimir Putin.

In the opening days of Russia’s February 2022 invasion, Russian troops in Crimea pushed north and quickly captured Kherson province’s capital, the city of Kherson, and surrounding areas. Ukraine took the territory back in November after forcing the Russians to retreat across the Dnieper River, which bisects the province.

Commission’s bid to block a deal that it contends will stifle competition and innovation to the detriment of consumers.

It’s the latest twist in a deal that was announced 17 months ago. Both Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick are expected to testify at some point during five days of hearings in San Francisco before U.S. District Judge Jacqueline Scott Corley that will conclude June 29.

FTC lawyers will call upon experts and a top executive for Sony, the maker of the industryleading PlayStation video game console, to show why Microsoft will gain an unfair advantage if it is allowed to blend its Xbox franchise with an Activision acquisition that will give it ownership of popular video game titles such as Call of Duty, World of Warcraft and Candy Crush. After all the evidence and arguments are presented, Corley will decide whether or not to grant the FTC’s request for a court order that would keep the deal in a holding pattern until a more exhaustive administrative trial that’s scheduled to begin in Washington D.C. on August 2. The judge isn’t expected to rule until after the Fourth of July holiday.

If Corley declines to issue an injunction, Microsoft could move to close the deal ahead of a July 18 deadline and avert a $3 billion breakup fee. The wrangling over the deal has cast a spotlight on the growing importance of video gaming, a pursuit that has already garnered an estimated of audience of about 3 billion people worldwide who play at least some of the time on a console, personal computer or, increasingly, smartphone. The market is expected to swell to 4.5 billion people by 2030.

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Q: What attracted you to “How I Met Your Father”?

A: I’m extremely lucky to have gotten the oppor tunity to play Sophie. I am so attracted to par ts that are extremely relatable, and this one happens to touch on just tr ying to find love in this world that we live in with all the options that there are, and how hard it is to meet someone face-to-face. And the fact that she has this lovely friend circle that, kind of, comes together in a strange way, it was all just really attractive to me.

Q: What do you feel that you have in common with Sophie?

A: Even though I’m in a totally different place in my life, I just felt like I was drawn to Sophie. She doesn’t give up. She’s kind of struggling. The odds are kind of against her in her career, but she’s leaning on this little pack of weirdos that she finds one night. And they run of f into the sunset together and have all of these experiences that young people have, just tr ying to find their footing. It was just a great script.

Q: What do you think about the show being careful to stay separate from the earlier “How I Met Your Mother” while also paying homage to it?

A: I think it’s impor tant to know that we are our own show. The original show was so amazing, and (the cast members) were so tied into one another and just did such an amazing job, but this is its own show

We clicked pretty fast. We were like, “Huh, we have a show We did it. We look like we are best friends. We like each other.” It kind of all fell into place, and we just hope that that magic comes across when other people watch it, because we are like, “We think we did a good job.”

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Adapted from an online discussion.

Dear Carolyn: I’ve had no motivation to exercise for two years. It’s a major mental block with consequences. Any suggestions for accessing some will to change? I’ve been in therapy. Live alone. Thank you.

— Unmotivated

Unmotivated: How do you define exercise?

If it’s “fitness regimen,” then that works for some, but for others, it’s repetitive, painful and boring.

Before we declared “working out” was a good idea, people were active as a byproduct of whatever else they were doing: walking, biking or riding places, working, lifting heavy things, dancing, playing games. Is there anything you could add to your life that’s fun and, by the way, active? Can you go dancing, walk or bike to errands, join a sports league, pick up a volunteer gig that involves manual labor or do something else? Something with a point, of which exercise is merely a consequence.

If that’s not possible, then Plan B is to rearrange your spaces at home or your fridge and pantry to break your habits. Identify ruts, such as the couch and TV and snacking, then break up the enabling furniture arrangements and shop differently to force different decisions. Think of it as a little mental chess vs. your opponent, your sedentary impulses.

There’s the reverse angle, too, that “motivation” is irrelevant to life-sustaining measures, such as going to

work. You just go. Right? This is the same thing.

Readers’ thoughts:

∙ First, go to what you liked doing as a kid. Was it biking, dance, team sports? Second, reframe the benefits of it. For me, it is 75 percent for my mental health. Finally, set a goal of five minutes a day to start.

∙ I finally realized the best exercise is the exercise you’ll actually do. I always told myself I could work out at home to free YouTube videos. I never did. I decided to rearrange my budget to go to a fancy gym and boom. I am there pretty much daily, taking all sorts of fun classes.

∙ Start small. Can you stretch while watching TV? Walk up and down some stairs? Walk around the block? Do a five-minute Yoga With Adriene video? A sevenminute workout?

∙ I absolutely won’t let people down who are

counting on me. I took up rowing as an adult, and not showing up can mean the boat can’t go out, which affects everyone else.

∙ Maybe you crave distraction? I walk and listen to podcasts, or I meet a friend and talk.

∙ I used to think of exercise as a chore. A friend casually mentioned that running was her “me” time away from kids, responsibility, etc. Suddenly I started to see exercise

∙ Please be kind to yourself. It is hard to get going in this world where we are made to feel as if we are never doing enough. My mantra: Something is better than nothing.

∙ Everyone has different circadian rhythms and schedules. Exercise whenever it’s most amenable to yours.

∙ I dance around the kitchen when I’m waiting for the microwave, coffee, etc. No, it won’t give me a fit and toned body, but it’s better than just sitting all day long.

· I bought a Wii Fit. It’s hilarious. I burn most of my calories laughing.

∙ I play “beer league” hockey. The fun motivates me to get up at 6 a.m., when I would hardly do that for anything else. Look for adult leagues in a sport you like. They have all levels.

∙ I got a part-time job that involved a lot of physical movement. My muscles are less sore each week, and I get paid to do it, unlike going to the gym.

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LSU tops No. 1 Wake Forest in spot for CWS Finals

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — LSU staved off elimination from the College World Series for a second time. And now the Tigers are right where they expected to be all along.

Cade Beloso hit a goahead three-run homer, freshman Griffin Herring pitched 4 2/3 innings of shutout relief in his longest outing and LSU forced a second bracket final with a 5-2 victory over No. 1 national seed Wake Forest on Wednesday night.

The winner of Thursday night’s will advance to play Florida in the best-of-three championship series that starts Saturday. The Gators clinched a spot with a 3-2 win over TCU.

“We expect to be playing important baseball in June,” Tigers coach Jay Johnson said. “We play every game like we’re playing important baseball in June. Like, the Tuesday on March 22nd against McNeese is a playoff game to us. The thought process behind that is if you do that all year long, then you can just stay in character when you get to the postseason.”

Wake Forest (54-11) will look to bounce back from its first loss in its eight NCAA Tournament games. The Demon Deacons, who have not lost consecutive games this season, are trying to reach the championship round in their first CWS ap-

pearance since the 1955 team won the national title.

“We’ll come out ready to play tomorrow like we’ve done all year,” Wake Forest coach Tom Walter said. “We’ve responded to adversity all year. Tomorrow will be no different.”

LSU hopes to set up a rematch of the 2017 finals, which Florida won.

“It’s the same game we’ve been playing since February,” Beloso said. “We’re going to go out there, have fun, we’re going to compete to the best of our abilities and let the rest take care of itself. Everybody knows the scenario. But you don’t have to put any more pressure on

Tourney: Clay target

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shooters. Newton was recognized as an All-American shooter after hold-

ing a 22.80 shooting average for the season. Gleue, Houston, Newton and Jacobs all received patches for per-

fect scores, 25-of-25 targets. Jacobs was also honored for a 50-broken target streak last week.

Rec: Scores from Tuesday

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S; Wren Schultz, 2S, D; Miley Middleton, 3S; Stella Sigg, S; Mia Middleton, S, T; Evalin Sigg, S, D; Finley Mueller, S, T.

Pigtail Nelson Quarries 17, Sonic Drive-In 2. Hits for Nelson Quarries: Wren Clift, 5S; LeAnna Flory, 2S; Finley Nelson, 2S, T; Kori Winslow, S, 3T; Tavra Sailor, S, 3D; Riley McGinnis, S; Cam Vaughn, S; Abbigayle Vest, 2S;

Temperance Bedenbender, 3S. Hits for

Sonic: Raina Borjas, D; Rylee Weast, S; Charley Kerr, S, D; Khloe Pulley,

S. Sigg Motors 5, Sonic Drive In 7. Hits for Sigg Mo-

tors: Cora Boren, 2S, D; Shakyia Trester, S; Chloey Boan, 2D; Emery Sigg, 2S, D; Isabella Cooper, S, T; Henlee Hesse, S, D; Scarlett Murry, S. Hits for Sonic: Raina Borjas, S; Rylee Weast, T; Charley Kerr, 3S, D, T; Khloe Pulley, S, D; Olivia Appling 2S; Avery Weast, S.

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yourself.”

The coaches didn’t announce starting pitchers, but aces Paul Skenes of LSU and Rhett Lowder of Wake Forest were not ruled out.

The Deacons scored 75 runs and hit 19 homers in their first five NCAA Tournament games, all played at home. They have just eight runs — their fewest over three games since April 2021 — and one homer at Charles Schwab Field, where the wind has blown in for three days. They’re batting .198 here, and leading hitter Nick Kurtz is 0 for 9 and Justin Johnson is 0 for 12.

“We play in a pretty small ballpark and the balls that usually go out

there aren’t going out here,” Pierce Bennett said. “We just need to adjust on keeping hard and low line drives. It’s hard to do. Hitting’s hard. You can’t really intentionally do that all the time. But just focusing in, zeroing in on just hitting line drives, finding the holes.”

The Tigers erased a 2-0 deficit in the third inning when Dylan Crews scored on a wild pitch to tie it and Beloso launched Seth Keener’s 2-0 offering into the right-field bullpen.

As Beloso approached the plate, he pulled his helmet off, chestbumped Gavin Dugas and slapped Tre’ Morgan’s arm — and then all three did cross-arm

flexes in front of their celebrating dugout.

It was only the fourth homer surrendered by Keener in 69 innings this season.

Herring, who hadn’t pitched since June 5 and had never gone more than three innings, steadied the Tigers after starter Javen Coleman and Blake Money combined to get just five outs.

The left-hander entered with LSU down two runs and held one of the country’s top offenses scoreless.

“Pure adrenaline,” Herring said. “This place is awesome. I think I kind of was able to feed off the adrenaline instead of letting it get to me.”

Double play

The Iola and Humboldt High summer softball teams were in action in Chanute Wednesday. At left, Iola freshman Zoie Hesse pitches to Chanute; above, Iola’s Alana Mader swings at a pitch, and below, Humboldt’s Shelby Shaughnessy pitches in game two.

Iola beat Chanute, 5-2, and Cherryvale, 11-4. Humboldt beat Coffeyville, 121, and Labette County, 6-3. REGISTER/QUINN BURKITT

Iola 7, Waverly 6.

Hits for Iola: Cayleigh, D; Bri, S; Claire, S; Zoie, 2S, T; Addie, D, T; Breighlynn, T; Bella, D. Hits for Waverly: Lydia, S; Bella, S; Zoey, S, T; Phoebe, S; Aubrey, S, D; Evalyn, S; Kassie, D; Heidi, S, T.

Iola 5, Waverly, 11.

Hits for Iola: Cayleigh, 2S; Bri, 2S; Claire, T; Zoie, D, HR. Hits for Waverly: Bella, S; Zoey, 2S; Phoebe, 2S; Aubrey, 2S; Macy, S; Evelyn, D; Evalyn, S; Kassie, S; Emma, S; Heidi, S.

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