While volunteers will no longer go to businesses across the county to retrieve card board boxes, those interested in recycling can still take their recyclables to Iola, organizers said.Dan Davis, president of Iola Recycling, told the Register Monday the board of directors have agreed to keep their col lection site open as they try to find additional help to resume the cardboard collections. He cited the large response to a public meeting Thursday that drew a crowd of about 50. After the meeting, Davis said he communicated the strong turnout to the other Iola Recycling board mem bers, and they agreed to keep the depot Residentsopencan take card A depository for recyclables such as glass, cardboard, plastic, tin, aluminum and various types of paper will remain open, Iola Recycling officials announced, even though they’ve suspended efforts to retrieve cardboard from businesses across the county.
Aaron Cole, USD 257 maintenance director, right, speaks at Monday’s Board of Education meeting alongside Superintendent of Schools Stacey Fager. REGISTER/VICKIE MOSS
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It’s been a busy summer for the Iola school district’s maintenance crew. They moved out of four buildings — three elementa ry schools and fifth grade at the middle school — and into one new building just days before the start of school. They also cleared out use ful items from the former science building and cafete ria before it was demolished. They also set up a new au tomotive center at the Rural Regional Technological Cen ter at AndLaHarpe.ifthatwasn’t enough, they also performed some general maintenance and made various improvements across the district.
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Aaron Cole, maintenance director, gave USD 257 board members an update at Mon day’sThemeeting.summer was mostly spent moving, he said. It started with moving things out of the old science building, which has since been demolished. Anything that could be salvaged was saved.That included kitchen cabi nets, countertops, an old oven and refrigerator. Those things were moved to a family and consumer sciences classroom at Iola Middle School, where they can be used to teach life skills like sewing, cooking and proper dining etiquette, forCrewsexample.also did the same kind of salvage work at the While an extension of the Missouri Pacific Trail to Iola’s new ele mentary school is not yet open, some already have begun using the path to get to Theschool.city isn’t going to chase the kids off the trail, even though ADA cutouts and curbs and crosswalks along the ex tension are not in place, Assistant City Adminis trator Corey Schinstock told City Council mem bersHowever,Monday.it would be hoove motorists to be
Iola City Council members voted to proceed with a resolution that could eventually lead to addi tional housing in the city’s Cedarbrook Addition. REGISTER/RICHARD LUKEN
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Iola City Council members are throwing their support behind an effort to entice housing development in the north part of town. Council members unan imously endorsed the first steps to creating a Rural Housing Incentive District covering what was a portion of the old Cedarbrook Golf Course.ARural Housing Incentive District (RHID) is a program geared to aid developers in towns with a proven need of affordable housing, explained Jonathon Goering of Thrive Allen County. An RHID captures incre mental increases in property taxes by a housing develop ment for up to 25 years. The taxes may then be returned to the developer as reimburse ment for infrastructure costs, or the money could be used to pay off debt service if the city issues bonds to pay for such infrastructureReimbursementsimprovements.canbe
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But the Supreme Court has never determined whether a former pres ident can assert exec utive privilege over documents, writing in January that the issue is unprecedented and raises “serious and sub stantial concerns.”
The lawsuit paints Trump as “fully coop erative” and compli ant with investigators, saying members of his personal and house hold staff were made available for voluntary interviews and quoting him as telling FBI and Justice Department offi cials during a June visit to Mar-a-Lago, “Whatev er you need, just let us know.”
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Under and by virtue of an Or der 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 South Door entrance of the Allen County, Courthouse, Kansas, on Septem ber 14, 2022 at the time of 10:00 AM, the following real estate: ALL OF LOTS NUMBERED NINE (9), TEN (10), ELEVEN (11), AND TWELVE (12), BLOCK SEVEN (7), FOX’S SECOND ADDITION TO THE CITY OF LAHARPE, ALLEN COUN TY, KANSAS, TOGETHER WITH THE EAST HALF (E/2) OF VACAT ED NORTH FIRST STREET ON THE SOUTH SIDE OF SAID LOT 9., Par cel ID No. 087-35-0-20-27-004.000-01. Commonly known as 610 S McKinley Ave, La Harpe, KS 66751 (“the Property”) MS200712 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.
All members of the Valley of Southeast Kansas Lodge of Per fection are asked to attend a dinner and meeting on Thursday, Sept. 1, at the Arm strong Masonic Lodge, 3105 N. Joplin St., Pitts burg.Social hour begins at 5:30 p.m., with din ner at 6:30 followed by the meeting at 7.
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HUTCHINSON — An Allen County Sheriff’s deputy was among 19 new law enforcement officers to graduate from the Kansas Law Enforcement Training Center (KLETC) on Aug. 19 at a ceremony held in the KLETC In tegrityJohnAuditorium.Walker,with the Allen County Sher iff’s Office, was listed among the graduates. It was the 297th Ba sic Training Class and training began in April.Established by the Kansas Legislature in 1968, KLETC trains the majority of municipal, county, and state law enforcement officers in Kansas and over sees the training of the remaining officers at seven authorized and certified academy programs operated by local law enforcement agencies and the Kan sas Highway Patrol.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Lawyers for former President Donald Trump asked a federal judge Monday to halt the FBI’s review of documents re covered from his Florida estate earlier this month until a neutral special master can be appointed to inspect the records. The request was in cluded in a federal law suit, the first filing by Trump’s legal team in the two weeks since the search, that takes broad aim at the FBI investi gation into the discov ery of classified records at Mar-a-Lago and that foreshadows arguments his lawyers are expected to make as the probe pro ceeds.Itcomes as The New York Times reported that the government has recovered more than 300 documents marked clas sified from Mar-a-Lago since Trump left office, including more than 150 retrieved by the National Archives in January — a number that helped trig ger the criminal investi gation.The lawsuit casts the Aug. 8 search, in which the FBI said it recov ered 11 sets of classified documents from Mar-aLago, as a “shockingly aggressive move.” It also attacks the warrant as overly broad, contends that Trump is entitled to a more detailed de scription of the records seized from the home and argues that the FBI and Justice Department has long treated him “unfairly.”“Lawenforcement is a shield that protects America. It cannot be used as a weapon for political purposes,” the lawyers wrote Monday. “Therefore, we seek judi cial assistance in the af termath of an unprece dented and unnecessary raid” at Mar-a-Lago. In a separate state ment, Trump said “ALL documents have been previously declassi fied” — though he has not produced evidence to support that claim — and described the records as having been “illegally seized from my home.” The Justice Department countered in a terse three-sentence statement pointing out that the search had been authorized by a federal judge after the FBI pre sented probable cause that a crime had been committed.Thefiling requests the appointment of a special master not con nected the case who would be tasked with inspecting the records recovered from Mar-aLago and setting aside those that are covered by executive privilege — a principle that per mits presidents to with hold certain commu nications from public disclosure.Insome other high-profile cases — in cluding investigations involving Rudy Giuliani and Michael Cohen, two of Trump’s personal at torneys — that role has been filled by a former judge.“This matter has cap tured the attention of the American public. Merely ‘adequate’ safe guards are not accept able when the matter at hand involves not only the constitutional rights of President Trump, but also the presumption of executive privilege,” the attorneys wrote. The lawsuit argues that the records, created during Trump’s White House tenure, are “pre sumptively privileged.”
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The high court turned down Trump’s plea to block records held by the National Archives from being turned over to the Jan. 6 committee, saying then that his re quest would have been denied even if he had been the incumbent president, so there was no need to tackle the thorny issue of a former president’s claims.
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THE STATE OF KANSAS TO ALL PERSONS CONCERNED: By virtue of an Order of Sale issued out of the District Court of Allen County, Kansas, in the above entitled action, I will, on the 14th day of September, 2022, at 10:00 A.M., at the South entrance, main floor of the Allen County Court house, 1 North Washington, in the City of Iola, Allen County, Kansas, offer for sale at public auction and sell to the highest bidder for cash in hand all of the right, title and interest of the Defendant above named in and to the following described real property located in Allen County, Kansas: Lot Eight (8), Block Twenty (20), Rhoades Addition to the City of Iola, Allen County, Kansas, com monly known as 407 S. Elm, Iola, KansasSaid66749real property is levied on as the property of the Defen dant above named and will be sold without appraisement to satisfy said Order of Sale. Defen dant-owner is granted a three (3) month redemption period from the date of sale.NOTICE This is an attempt to collect a debt and any information ob tained will be used for that pur Bryanpose. J. Murphy, Sheriff Allen County, Kansas Karl R. Swartz, #12532 MORRIS. LAING, EVANS, BROCK & KENNEDY, CHARTERED 300 North Mead, Suite 200 Wichita, KS 67202 (316) Attorneys262-2671forPlaintiff(8) 24, 31 (9) 7 Contact Us 302 S. Washington, Iola 620-365-2111 news@iolaregister.comwww.iolaregister.com
Local law enforcement officers are seen in front of the home of former President Donald Trump at Mara-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida, on Aug. 9. (GIORGIO VIERA/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES/TNS)
Move: Summer projects lead to opportunities for USD 257 Continued from A1 City: Trail work, crosswalks discussed Continued from A1 Iolan
COLE also updated school board members on other transportation and maintenance issues. The district has enough bus drivers this year — barely. He said he would like to hire two or three more drivers. At least two have indicated this will be their last year. The district had a shortage of drivers last year, with Cole and tractor.foretoprocessquestionsbuildingthetobeinstructorhometradestoCenter,theitshousehouseolitionhirelayedtheandline.theColeed.vanshasgerlongersit10-passengermissionpassengerspecialDriversnecessarytrainingevents.tohelpsometimesadministratorspitchingintoduringabsencesordrivetoactivitiesandThedistrictprovidesandpaysforcertification.needaCDLandschoolbusandendorsement.Healsoaskedper-topurchaseaFordTran-van.Actually,Fordnomakes10-passen-vans,butthestateafewspecialcargothatcanbeconvert-There’sawaitinglist,said,soheaskedifdistrictcouldgetinThecostis$45,767another$4,000formodifications.Finally,theboardde-Cole’srequesttosomeonetododem-workinsideanexttoIMS.ThewasmovedfromoriginallocationnearBowlusFineArtsandisexpectedteachconstructionstudentsaboutremodel.Butthesaiditwouldbettertohiresomeonedodemolition,andletstudentsworkontheafterthat.BoardmembershadaboutthebidandwantedColedomoreresearchbe-theyapprovedacon-
SPEAKING OF crosswalks, Councilman Josia D’Albini asked Schinstock once again about adding a crosswalk to accommodate Allen Community College students crossing North Cottonwood street to the ACC campus from White thereAddingBoulevard.acrosswalkwouldrequirecutting into the curbs and sidewalks for an ADA ramp, Schinstock noted, “which is really the landowner’s responsibility.”Still, the city would be willing to work with the college if it wants to pursue a crosswalk there, Schinstock said. And Max Grundy, who lives near the intersection of Kentucky Street and North Dakota Road, asked about the potential for adding stop signs along Kentucky Street along that Motoristsblock.along that stretch of road “drive pretty fast,” Grundy said, and recently he saw a dog hit there. With increased foot traffic in that part of town, a stop sign would be prudent, Grundy said.Schinstock said the city would look into Grundy’s request. Max Grundy LUKEN
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The district postponed plans to revamp IHS, flipping the library and office areas to create a secured entry. That was delayed as the district focused on building a new science building and razing the old one to create a parking lot. Perhaps once that work is done, they can take another look at that and other security features, he said.
“The teachers are making it happen and the kids are having fun,” heHesaid.also talked about traffic control, which was a bit chaotic on the first day. That was expected, and it has settled into a more predictable pattern. That also was expected. Mornings tend to flow more easily than afternoons, he said, but he believes it will continue to improve.
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) — A jury on Tuesday convicted two men of conspiring to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer in 2020, a swift victory for prosecutors in a plot that was broken up by the FBI and described as a rallying cry for a U.S. civil war by anti-government extremists. Adam Fox and Barry Croft Jr. were also found guilty of conspiring to obtain a weapon of mass destruction, namely a bomb to blow up a bridge and stymie police if the kidnapping could be pulled off at Whitmer’s vacation home.Croft, 46, a trucker from Bear, Delaware, was also convicted of another explosives charge. The jury deliberated for roughly eight hours over two days.It was the second trial for the pair after a jury in April couldn’t reach a unanimous verdict after five days. Two other men were acquitted and two more pleaded guilty and testified for prosecutors.Theresult was a big win for the U.S. Justice Department following the shocking mixed outcome last spring. “Today’s verdicts prove that violence and threats have no place in our politics and those who seek to divide us will be held accountable. They will not succeed,” said Whitmer, a Democrat.
AUGUST SPECIALS board, various types of plastics, glass, tin, aluminum, newspaper, magazines and office paper to the site, behind Pump N Pete’s on the east edge of town.Iola Recycling also will continue its “First Saturday” collection days, in which volunteers will be at the depot to help residents unload their recyclables.Formore than 20 years, Iola Rotary Club spearheaded paper drives until the program expanded in 2015 to include cardboard, and eventually glass, plastic and metal.However, the popularity of the effort grew to the point that it became too much for Rotarians to handle. Rotary discontinued its efforts at the end of 2021. Iola Recycling was formed almost countythewaste,overhavethanthereafter.immediatelyAndwhilemore160businessessigneduptohandtheircardboardcollectingfrombinsacrossthehasquicklybecome too cumbersome for the 10 or so volunteers who do the work, leading to ed.vicecardboardannouncementThursday’sthepickupser-isbeingsuspend-Daviswelcomesad-ditionalvolunteers,“orifanybodyisin-terestedinlearninghowtoworkthebal-er,”hesaid.IolanDonnaHous-erencouragedIolaCityCouncilmem-bersMondayeveningtostartuparecyclingprogramwithinthecity.
Depot: Still open Continued from A1 three elementary schools (Lincoln, Jefferson and McKinley) by taking out smart boards that were moved to Iola High School. The same happened with water bottle filling stations, which were moved to water fountains at IHS that didn’t have them. Lockers were moved from McKinley to replace half-sized lockers at IMS. They’ll need to be repainted, Cole said. Speakers and wireless access points in elementary school classrooms were installed at the new building. Also at the middle school, they moved fifth grade classrooms to the elementary school and reconfigured the space. A wall was removed, creating a large classroom out of two smaller ones for music classes taught by Elizabeth Cunningham.Evenwithmoving out the fifth grade classes, most of those rooms have already been put to good use, IMS Principal Brad Crusinbery told the board. Only one room is vacant, and it is being used for storage. Others are being used by elementary school teachers who travel to IMS in the mornings to teach electives, such as an IES art teacher who offers a photography class for middle school students. COLE and others also recapped the big move to the new elementary school.Crews had just a couple of weeks to move, and it was an “all-handson-deck” situation. Board members, faculty, teachers and even family members were called in to Superintendenthelp. Stacey Fager gave Cole a lot of credit for organizing the move. Though it had been planned months in advance, the shorter time frame required everyone to quickly come together.IESPrincipal Andy Gottlob said the moving process allowed the faculty and staff to bond. “We became a team,” he said. “The beautiful thing is you’re bringing three different buildings together to accomplish a task that looks impossible, and they’re building their own culture as they’re doing it.” He also gave an update on the first few days at the new building. There are still some minor construction issues that need to be addressed, but the important thing is that students are in classes and learning.
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BOARD members also got an update on its goals as part of an accreditation process. The district recently received accreditation status from the Kansas Education Systems Accreditation (KESA). The district’s accreditation status will go until During2027. the first year, the district set numerous goals in all areas, from improving communication with the public to upgrading technology systems and facilities. The district’s preschool program, for example, has grown by leaps and bounds in the past five years and now reaches just about every preschool-aged child in the district through a partnership with two private tworess.beenmanythemeetdistrictandviewedJennaCurriculumpreschools.directorHigginbothamre-thelistofgoalsdiscussedstepsthehadtakentothem.Becauseit’sfifthandfinalyear,ofthegoalshavemetorareinprog-“Itseemslikethelastyears,allwetalked about were buildings and COVID. Seeing this list, you realize how many other things we did,” Board President Dan Willis noted. Fager noted several improvements have sort of flown under the radar as attention was focused on those things. He pointed to tuckpointing on the high school building and mow strips around the high school and middle school, as well as many improvements to the football stadium at Riverside Park. Perhaps next the district will look at installing new LED lights at the Somestadium.work, though, has not yet happened.
alert when traveling through the area, now that school has started. When complete, the MoPac trail will connect the school through the middle part of town to the Prairie Spirit Trail on the west edge of Iola, following the former Missouri Pacific rail corridor.
The start of school brought heavy traffic to the new school on the first day of classes last Wednesday, but seems to have settled down significantly since then, although congestion at the end of each school day is still an Schinstockissue. said the city assisted the school district by painting some traffic lanes in the elementary school parking lot to help direct traffic, and officers will continue monitoring traffic flow.“I was expecting total bedlam” when school began, Councilman Nich Lohman admitted. Rather, the new school year brought what Lohman described as “Iola rush hour,” or “having to wait more than 10 seconds before turning at a stop sign.”
A smokes as activists demonstrating for the legalization of marijuana march in the annual Hemp Parade (Hanfparade) on Aug. 13 in Berlin.
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SINCE 1975, the Monitoring the Future study has annually surveyed substance use behaviors and attitudes among a nationally representative sample of teens. It also conducts follow-up surveys on a subset of these participants to track their drug use through adulthood. Participants self-report their drug use behaviors across three primary time periods: lifetime, past year and past month.Data for last year’s survey were collected online from April to OctoberMarijuanaKey2021.findingsuse: Key findings for the young adult group included that 29% of young adults reported marijuana usage in the past month during 2021, compared to 21% in 2016 and 17% in Daily2011.marijuana use also significantly increased, reported by 11% of young adults in 2021, a significant increase from 8% in 2016 and 6% in Hallucinogen2011. use: Researchers say hallucinogen use had been relatively stable over the past few decades until 2020, when reports of use started to increase dramatically.In2021,8% of young adults reported pastyear hallucinogen use, representing an all-time high since the category was first surveyed in 1988. In comparison, in 2016, 5% of young adults reported past-year hallucinogen use, and in 2011, only 3% reported use.Types of hallucinogens reported by participants included LSD, MDMA, mescaline, peyote, “shrooms” or psilocybin, and PCP. The only hallucinogen measured that significantly decreased in use was MDMA (also called ecstasy or molly), showing statistically significant decreases within one year as well as the past five years — from 5% in both 2016 and 2020 to 3% in Nicotine2021. vaping: Those who reported nicotine vaping in the past month increased significantly among young adults in 2021, despite leveling off in 2020 during the earlier part of the pandemic. Researchers said it reflects a general long-term upward trend: In 2021, nicotine vaping prevalence nearly tripled to 16%, compared to 6% in 2017 when the behavior was firstMarijuanarecorded.
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Continued from A1 Marijuana and hallucinogen use in the past year reported by young adults increased significantly in 2021 compared to five and 10 years ago, reaching historic highs, according to the Monitoring the Future panel study.The study was conducted by scientists at the University of Michigan’s Institute for Social Research and funded by National Institute on Drug Abuse, part of the National Institutes of Health.The report, which was released Monday, found a spike of usage in hallucinogens for those aged 19 to 30 years old, a record set for this age group since 1988. Rates of past-month nicotine vaping, which have been gradually increasing in young adults for the past four years, also continued their general upward trend in 2021, despite leveling off in 2020. Past-month marijuana vaping, which had significantly decreased in 2020, rebounded to pre-pandemic levels in 2021, researchers noted. Alcohol remains the most-used substance among adults in the study, though past-year, past-month and daily drinking have been decreasing over the past decade. Binge drinking (five or more drinks in a row in the past two weeks) rebounded in 2021 from a historic low in 2020, during the early stages of COVID-19 pandemic.However, high-intensity drinking (having 10 or more drinks in a row in the past two weeks) has been steadily increasing over the past decade and in 2021, reached its highest level ever recorded since first measured in 2005. “One of the best ways we can learn more about drug use and its impact on people is to observe which drugs are appearing, in which populations, for how long and under which contexts,” said Megan Patrick, Industry Standards Research professor and principal investigator of the MTF panel study. She said similar surveys on a consistent sample population allows researchers to assess the effects of “natural experiments” like the pandemic to examine how and why drugs are used and highlight critical areas to guide where research should go next.
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vaping: The study showed that marijuana vaping significantly dipped in 2020 but returned to near pre-pandemic levels in 2021. Since 2017, when marijuana vaping was included in the study, past-month prevalence has doubled — from 6% in 2017 to 12% in 2021. Binge drinking: Reports of binge drinking by young adults returned to pre-pandemic levels in 2021 after significantly decreasing in 2020 (32% reported in 2021 verses 28% in 2020 and 32% in 2019). However, past-month and past-year alcohol use and daily drinking have been on a downward trend in young adults for the past 10 years. For example, in 2021, 66% of young adults reported alcohol use in the past 30 days, a significant decline from 70% recorded in 2016 and 69% in Cigarettes:2011.The survey also showed significant decreases in past-month cigarette smoking by young adults and nonmedical use of opioid medications in the past year (surveyed as “narcotics other than heroin”) compared to 10 years ago. Both substances have been declining steadily in use for the past Additionaldecade.data from the 2021 MTF panel study include drug use reported by adults 35 to 50 years old, college/noncollege young adults, and among various demographic subgroups.Results for the upcoming study will be released in December.
The biggest reason for such an increase, Rehder explained in July, was that the Council agreed in 2019 and 2020 to reshape the city’s salary schedule, but did not incorporate subsequent increases in revenue to pay for the Additionally,hikes. the city’s gas reserves have dropped, which means the city likely will have to hold back a portion of its planned gas fund transfer to the general fund. Council members previously adjusted the natural gas rate structure to address that shortfall.Slaugh — who was not at Monday’s meeting, but still participated in the proceedings via telephone — said he was concerned about such a hefty property tax increase, while still requiring a substantial utility reserve transfer from the city’s electric capital improvement fund to the general fund. He cast the lone dissenting vote against the budget.Approval came after Iolan Don Heath spoke about his property tax bill, which is certain to rise an astronomical amount, even without the mill levy increase, because his home value skyrocketed over the pastHeathyear. told Council members his home was valued at $88,000 last year, but is now valued at “That$140,000.isa shocking increase,” Rehder agreed, “but that’s not us.” Rehder explained to Heath he needed to address his home’s property values with the Allen County appraiser’s office, not the city. “House valuation is a county function,” Rehder said.
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The Twin Motors bid was about 4% or $3,000 higher than a second bid from Steve Faulkner Ford of Chanute, which qualified it for the city’s local procurement policy, which favors Iola-based vendors.
COUNCIL members approved the city’s $25 million budget for 2023, supported in part by one of the largest tax increases in recent memory.Iola’s ad valorem tax levy will bump up to 54.48 mills, or a hike of about 6½ mills over what taxpayers spent forFor2022. perspective’s sake, the owner of a $75,000 home would pay about $470 annually to support Iola’s budget, an increase of about $56 from this year. (Of note, this does not include property tax obligations to support the county, USD 257 or Allen Community College.)
Housing: Developer eyes area for homes in north Iola
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Theinfrastructure.impetuswas a series of discussions between city officials and a developer who has expressed an interest in building homes for moderate-income residents in the Cedarbrook Addition.Arecent housing study already indicates the need for such housing, Goering noted, plus Iola’s population of less than 40,000 clears another barrier for RHID nationceivessaid.coulderate-incometointheagreed.ourvelopersadded.MayorinterestedworthySlaugh.fromresponsehouses,”ingdeveloper.theolutionapprovingMattqualification.CityAdministratorRehdernotedthattheRHIDres-doesnotbindcitytoaparticular“You’renotdetermin-who’sgonnabuildRehdersaidintoaquestionCouncilmanCarlThatsaid,it’snote-thatIolahasandeveloper,SteveFrench“Wehavenothadde-beatingdowndoors,”GoeringWithoutincentives,costtobuildhomesIolaisalmostcertainexceedwhatmod-familiesafford,FrenchIf,orwhen,Iolare-theRHIDdesig-—thecityshould know by January — the next step would be to apply for Moderate Income Housing (MIH) funds made available each year. In response to a question from Councilwoman Kim Peterson, Goering noted the housing would not be targeted for low-income residents, but rather working class families. For example, a single resident could qualify with an income of $90,000 or less, Goering noted. “That’s very much in line with our industries in town,” he said.
COUNCIL members approved purchase of a pair of half-ton 2023 F150 Ford pickups from Twin Motors Ford for $72,467.56 for the gas distribution and wastewater departments. Both departments had set aside $30,000 toward the purchase.Mitch Phillips, superintendent of both departments, noted he pulled money out of reserves set aside for other equipment purchases to accommodate the additional $12,467.56.
By XIAO WANG The Chicago Tribune
Many states do not, in their state laws and constitutions, even provide for a popular initiative or referendum.
The results of the vote over a constitutional amendment that could have removed the right to abortion in Kansas gave rise to two common reactions: surprise (that a red state would vote in favor of abortion rights) and hope (that the process could be replicableNeitherelsewhere).response, though, tells the full story. The real lesson in Kansas is that direct democracy — where voters weigh in on issues without the muddying effects of special interest groups that can dominate state legislatures — can be a bulwark against extreme positions. But it’s being eroded in many states. The outcome in Kansas shouldn’t be all that surprising. According to available polling and survey data ahead of the vote, more than 55% of Kansans supported access to abortion. Consistent with that polling, 59% of voters cast ballots against removing a right to abortion. And Kansas isn’t an outlier, even among red states. A majority of voters in Texas, South Carolina and Georgia also support abortion access. Does that mean that what happened in Kansas — rejecting abortion restrictions by popular vote — can be repeated in these and other places? Not necessarily, because direct democracy isn’t enshrined in every state. Consider the case of Medicaid expansion. Medicaid, a public pandnifisoughtableThegovernments.mentfederalfundedtheministeredgram,insurancehealthpro-isad-bystatesbutbythegovern-andstateAfford-CareActtosig-cantlyex-Medicaid coverage and make it accessible to Americans in more states; the act even offered generous federal funding to any state willing to doAndso. yet, several years after the Affordable Care Act’s passage, 20 states still refused to expand Medicaid coverage. Virtually all were led by a Republican governor, a Republican-controlled state legislature or both. To demand Medicaid access, residents from several of these states organized ballot initiatives to expand Medicaid coverage, attempting to override their governors and legislatures. Much like the abortion-access proposal in Kansas, many analysts predicted that these initiatives would fail. But in state after state, they succeeded. In the past five years, Maine, Missouri, Oklahoma, Idaho, Utah and Nebraska have all enacted Medicaid expansion through ballot initiatives. Voters there proved to be far more progressive than their elected representatives, favoring greater access for the public health insurance program. Such results shine a light on a potentially promising way to protect abortion rights outside the traditional legislative process. But the Medicaid expansion campaign might also serve as a cautionary tale. Twelve states have still not expanded Medicaid coverage. Eight of these 12 states do not, in their state laws and constitutions, even provide for a popular initiative or referendum. Another — Mississippi — technically offers voters a process to directly amend its constitution, but the Mississippi Supreme Court has held that the procedure’s requirements are “mathematically impossible to satisfy.” Subsequent efforts to amend the process in Mississippi have failed.More worryingly, several states have recently tried to make their initiative and referendum processes harder. Last year in Florida, for instance, the state government enacted measures to limit financial contributions to citizen-organized ballot initiatives. Idaho likewise passed a law that imposes more onerous signature requirements on groups seeking to use the initiative or referendum process.Finally, in November, South Dakotans are scheduled to vote on their own Medicaid expansion ballot initiative. But in advance of this initiative, the South Dakota legislature sought to change the rules surrounding voter-initiated referendums, by requiring that they pass by 60% rather than a simple majority, to become law. In a quirk of South Dakota law, however, the legislature could only change this procedure by putting the question directly to voters. Those voters rejected the measure this past June, by almost a 2-1 margin, preserving their own right to effect change through referendums.Here’swhy these Medicaid details — specifically, where popular initiative has a realistic chance of succeeding, and where it does not — matter. First, Medicaid access extricablychoicereproductiveandarein-intertwined. As I have written elsewhere, overturning Roe will disproportionately burden low-income people and people of color. Declining to expand Medicaid will do the same.Furthermore, viewed on a map, the states that do not have an initiative or referendum process, or the states that are making their processes harder, are disproportionately in the Southeast and Great Plains. These are the same states that have declined to expand Medicaid, and they are the same states that carry some of the most onerous restrictions on abortion. The fight in these places, then, is not just one about expanded health care coverage or abortion access. It is also one about the nature and character of democracy itself. As satisfying as the result in Kansas might have been for progressives, it will not — and cannot — be repeated in the places that need it most until there is a promise to safeguard the processes that allow for democratic participation. That sort of push happens not through a single election or voting cycle, but through a sustained commitment by officials, judges and other stakeholders to recognize and protect the vitality of direct democracy.
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About the writer: Xiao Wang is an assistant professor at Northwestern Pritzker School of Law and director of the Appellate Advocacy Center.
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After 38 years leading the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Fauci will retire by year’s end, he announced Monday. Fauci’s retirement is well earned. For nearly four decades, he worked to keep Americans safe from contagious diseases such as Ebola, Zika and other life-threatening conditions. He took the job in 1984 in part, he recalled later, because he was frustrated by the federal government’s inadequate response to the HIV/AIDS epidemic, and over time earned deep respect from activists within the gay community who had initially doubted hisDespitesincerity. that already stormy history, most of us knew little about Fauci’s work before 2020. His tenure as the face of the government’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic — the most serious public health emergency in a century — was marked by controversy, a few missteps, and frequent battles with former President Donald Trump. But he deserves profound praise for the way he presided over America’s response to the pandemic, whose grip around the nation’s neck appears to at last be loosening.
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65 Years Ago August 1957 Lyle Harvey is the new manager of the weekly stock car races at Gas City. He said provisions will be made for regular and modified stock cars to race. He said $250 in purses will be guaranteed for the first program tomorrow under the Allen County Racing Association.*****
State Architect John Brink, formerly of Iola, has started preliminary work on plans for the proposed Eisenhower Library at Abilene. Gov. George Docking’s office said Brink has secured descriptive material on the Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman libraries and requirements for the Eisenhower structure.***** The cinder track which has been a dream of the Iola High School athletic department for several years is becoming a reality this week. A quarter-mile oval in front of the football stadium in Riverside Park is now being laid out. Its concrete curbs are in place and the crushed rock base will be completed during the next two weeks.
FAUCI SPARRED with Trump, who routinely downplayed the seriousness of the pandemic, calling criticism of his response a hoax perpetrated by Democrats and other opponents. But the pandemic was no laughing matter. More than 1 million Americans died and countless others were hospitalized. Despite enormous, bipartisan economic aid packages, many others will never fully recover from painful but necessary lockdowns that isolated individuals, separated families and pushed businesses to the brink of ruin. Fauci did not set out to be a lightning rod. He was turned into one by Trump, who desperately wanted the pandemic to be over before the November 2020 election. As Trump turned more and more against reality, Fauci became the voice of science and reason. We’re thankful that he did. In the early stages of the pandemic, we were told to stay home. Local shutdown orders were expected to last about two weeks. Soon, it became apparent more time was needed to limit the damage inflicted by the highly contagious airborne virus. Months went by before society reopened. During the unprecedented lockdown, nursing home residents were cut off from loved ones. The economy tanked. Small businesses closed. Schoolchildren were left behind. And, over the course of the last two years, the number of folks with mental health issuesRepublicans,increased. especially after Democrat Joe Biden defeated Trump in 2020, blamed Fauci for most of those ills. That wasn’t fair, or Meanwhile,honest. new words and ideas crept into our lives, and we have Fauci to thank for that. Wearing masks in public and social distancing became the norm. Virtual learning and remote meetings were essential to school children and their parents. These safety measures and other precautions, pushed by Fauci and experts at the the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, undoubtedly saved lives. In March 2020, Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly, a Democrat, became the first governor in the country to close all schools for the remainder of the year. Meanwhile, in neighboring Missouri, Gov. Mike Parson, mimicking his counterparts in red states like Texas and Florida, was slow to act. Under Parson, a Republican from Bolivar, Missouri was one of the last states to declare an emergency to address the coronavirus threat. In December 2021, at the height of the super-infectious omicron surge, Parson prematurely ended the emergency declaration.Parson,like most Republican leaders who refused to order commonsense restrictions, took his cue from Trump, who made a mockery of the virus and put Asian Americans in danger of physical attacks by calling it the “Chinese virus.” All along, Fauci did his level best to counter these foolish refusals to heed the facts. He stepped in to become the face of a responsible public servant and a welcome antidote to the poor examples set by Trump and many Republican governors.Fauci,... like the CDC itself, is not without faults. He probably regretted his intemperate words. And the messaging about masks was sloppy and inconsistent at the start — giving ammunition to those looking for any reason to push back against pandemic protections and protocols.ButFauci’s mistakes were small compared to his successes. With the disease in retreat — but far from gone — he’s announcing he’s stepping down. He’ll head into retirement with our gratitude.
After almost 40 years of directing the ght against infectious diseases, from Ebola to HIV/ AIDS to COVID-19, Dr. Anthony Fauci has announced he will retire in December. Fauci is 81 years old. (PHOTO BY GREG NASH / POOL / AFP) Fauci fought to keep us safe Anthony Fauci is calling it a career. And the 81-yearold infectious disease expert — one of the most visible health officials in the federal government’s response to the coronavirus outbreak — deserves America’s heartfelt thanks. Without Fauci’s steady leadership, the COVID-19 pandemic would have created more havoc on our country than we could possibly imagine.
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While Ukraine denied involvement, the bloodshed stirred fears of RussianHundredsretaliation.ofpeople paid tribute at a memorial service Tuesday to the bombing victim, Darya Dugina, 29, the daughter of Alexander Dugin, a writer dubbed “Putin’s brain” and “Putin’s Rasputin” because of his purported influence on Russian President Vladimir Putin. Dugina, a pro-Kremlin TV commentator, died when the SUV she was driving blew up Saturday night as she was returning home from a patriotic festival. Her father, a strong supporter of the invasion of Ukraine, was widely believed to be the intended target.Over the weekend, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy warned that Russia “may try to do something particularly nasty, something particularly cruel” this week.On Tuesday, however, Zelenskyy stressed defiance rather than worry when he raised the national flag at a memorial one day ahead of Independence Day. “The blue and yellow flag of Ukraine will again fly where it rightfully should be — in all temporarily occupied cities and villages of Ukraine,” he said, including the Crimea Peninsula, which Russia annexed in He2014.added: “It is necessary to liberate Crimea from occupation. It will end where it had started.”At a separate event, Zelenskyy appeared to downplay the threats this week, indicating that at most, he expected increased intensity rather than new targets, and he added, “No one wants to die, but no one is afraid of Russia, and this is the most importantNATO,signal.” meanwhile, said Zelenskyy can continue to count on the 30-nation alliance for help in defending itself in what Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg called “a grinding war of attrition.” The war broke out on Feb. 24. “This is a battle of wills and a battle of logistics. Therefore, we must sustain our support for Ukraine for the long term so that Ukraine prevails as a sovereign, independent nation,” Stoltenberg said at an conferenceinternationalonCrimea.OneparticularsourceofforebodingisEu-rope’slargestnuclearpowerplant,insouth-easternUkraine,whereshellinghasraisedfearsofacatastrophe.ShellingclosetotheZaporizhzhiaplantcon-tinuedearlyTuesday.RegionalGov.ValentynReznichenkosaidRus-sianforcesfiredonMar-hanetsandNikopol,twotownslessthanadoz-enkilometers(7miles)fromthepowerstation.TheU.N.SecurityCoun-cilwasscheduledtomeetTuesdaytodiscussthedanger.AnothersourceofconcernisthefateofUkrainianprisonersofwar.MichelleBachelet,U.N.highcommission-erforhumanrights,citedreportsthatRus-siaanditsseparat-istalliesineasternUkraineareplanningtoputUkrainianPOWsontrial,possiblyinthecomingdays.TheKremlinhasdenouncedUkrainianprisonersasNazis,warcriminalsandterrorists,andsev-eralprisonershavebeensentencedtodeath.IntheeasternUkrainiancityofDo-netsk,Russianauthori-tiesreportedfourpeoplewerekilledandnearlyadozenwoundedinUkrainianshellingofaseparatistheadquartersandotherbuildings.AsmallbrightspotemergedinUkraine:AnewsoccerseasonstartedTuesdayinKyiv.ShakhtarDonetskandMetalist1925fromKharkiv—teamsfromeasterncitiesfightingfortheirexistence—playedtoa0-0drawina65,000-capacitydown-townstadiumwithnofansallowed.“Thisiswork...toshowtheworldthatlifeinUkrainedoesnotstopbutcontinues,”ShakhtarcoachIgorJo-vicevicsaid.
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A boy poses for a photograph on top of a burnt-out Russian tank displayed in the downtown area on Monday, in Kyiv, Ukraine. On Wednesday, Ukraine celebrates its 1991 declaration of independence from the USSR. Wednesday also marks six months since Russia launched its large-scale invasion of Ukraine. IMAGES/ALEXEY FURMAN/TNS BEIRUT (AP) — Another significant section of the devastated Beirut Port silos collapsed on Tuesday morning in a cloud of dust. No injuries were reported — the area had been long evacuated — but the collapse was another painful reminder of the horrific August 2020 explosion.Thecollapse left the silos’ southern part standing next to a pile of charred ruins. The northern block had already been slowly tipping over since the initial explosion two years ago but rapidly deteriorated after it caught fire over a month ago due to fermenting grains. The 50 year old,157 feet tall silos had withstood the force of the explosion on Aug. 4, 2020, effectively shielding the western part of Beirut from the blast that killed over 200 people, injured more than 6,000 and badly damaged entireEmmanuelneighborhoods.Durand, a French civil engineer who volunteered for the athatthetainthatvivors.blast’sfromsionbutedneseductsaidporturgedremainssurenowthetoldister,takergo.”you“WhenDurandwhichsharptheday,atedthePresstoldsionedgovernment-commis-teamofexperts,TheAssociatedthatthespeedoftiltrapidlyacceler-overnightonMon-justhoursbeforecollapse.“Therewasaveryacceleration,wasexpected,”explained.thishappens,knowit’sgoingtoThecountry’scare-environmentmin-NasserYassin,LebaneseTVthatgovernmentwilllookintohowtoen-thesouthernblockstanding.Heresidentsnearthetowearmasks,andexpertswouldcon-airqualitytests.InApril,theLeba-governmentdecid-todemolishthesilos,suspendedthedeci-followingprotestsfamiliesofthevictimsandsur-Theycontendthesilosmaycon-evidenceusefulforjudicialprobe,anditshouldstandasmemorialforthe2020 tragedy.InJuly, a fire broke out in the northern block of the silos due to the fermenting grains. Firefighters and Lebanese Army soldiers were unable to put it out and it smoldered for over a month. Officials had warned that the silo could collapse, but feared risking the lives of firefighters and soldiers who struggled to get too close to put out the blaze or drop containers of water from helicopters.Survivors of the blast and residents near the port have told the AP that watching the fire from their homes and offices was like reliving the trauma from the port blast, which started with a fire in a warehouse near the silos that contained hundreds of tons of explosive ammonium nitrate, improperly stored there for years. The environment and health ministries in late July issued instructions to residents living near the port to stay indoors in well-ventilated spaces.
DALLAS (AP) — Heavy rains across the drought-stricken Dallas-Fort Worth area on Monday caused streets to flood, submerging vehicles as officials warned motorists to stay off the roads and water seeped into some homes and businesses.
“The Dallas-Fort Worth area was pretty much ground zero for the heaviest rain overnight,” said Daniel Huckaby, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service. The official National Weather Service record station at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport reported 9.02 inches of rain in the 24 hours ending at noon Monday. That ranked second for the top 10 most rain over 24 hours in Dallas on record. The most was 9.57 inches that fell Sept. 4-5, 1932. Emergency responders across the area reported responding to dozens of high-water calls.“We’ve been in drought conditions, so the ground soaked up a lot of it but when you get that much rain over that short a period of time, it’s certainly going to cause flooding, and that’s what we saw, definitely in the urban areas here,” Huckaby said.In Balch Springs, a Dallas suburb where last month a grass fire that started in a tinder-dry open field damaged over two dozen homes, officials on Monday were rescuing people from flooded homes. “The water has nowhere to go and the creeks are starting to kind of flood over some. We’re just having them hunker in place until we can get to them by boat,” said fire Chief Eric Neal, who did not yet have a count of the number of rescues they’ve done. At White Rock Lake in Dallas, where the water level has been low through the baking summer months, people with umbrellas and water-proof jackets braved the rain Monday morning to watch the deluge transform the lake’s previously dry concrete spillway into what looked like a roaring river.
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Ukraine fears step up in attacks around national holiday
The sense of dread deepened Tuesday in Ukraine because of warnings that Russia may try to spoil the country’s Independence Day holiday and mark the war’s six-month point with intensified attacks.The U.S. reinforced the worry with a security alert citing “information that Russia is stepping up efforts to launch strikes against Ukraine’s civilian infrastructure and government facilities in the coming days.” As it has done previously, it urged American citizens to “depart Ukraine now.”Kyiv authorities banned mass gatherings in the capital through Thursday for fear of missile attacks around Independence Day, which, like the six-month mark in the war, falls on Wednesday. The holiday celebrates Ukraine’s independence from the Soviet Union in “Our1991. country is having a very hard time, and we need to be careful,” 26-year-old Vlad Mudrak said in support of the Anxietyban. also mounted after the weekend car bombing outside Moscow that killed the daughter of a leading right-wing Russian political theorist. Russia accused Ukraine of carrying out the attack.
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“I think the level of play is going to be way up. I’m going to have to work my butt off to earn a spot, even playing on JV, it’s just competitive baseball,” said Page. “We’ve got our first practice today and I’m sure there’s a lot of new things I’m going to learn and see from the other guys.” Similar to Barnett, Page also has aspirations of playing baseball after Allen. “I want to play past Allen and play at a four-year university. My dream is to make it on a DI baseball team. I think it’s possible but it’s still a far way out there so for now I just want to play baseball at Allen,” said Page.
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The Iola High School football blue/gold scrimmage was Friday night at Riverside Park ahead of the season. The team will hold a Jamboree with opposing teams this Friday night at 7 p.m. Clockwise from top left: Drayden Reiter (44) carrying the ball, Brandon McKarnin (42) kicking a eld goal, Jordy Kaufman (21) throwing the ball and Drayden Reiter (44) running the ball.
“I always thought I was going to end up at Neosho. I’ve practiced with their coaches probably since fourth grade up until around eighth grade. It just seemed like every coach I was working with there ended up taking a different job so came back to Humboldt, talked to coach Miller and he said ‘Have you ever thought about Allen?’ I reached out to coach Drew Noble and we hit it off,” saidToBarnett.takeaskill like baseball to the next level takes time and dedication to the sport. That is what Barnett put in over the years as he played for a number of different teams prior to high school and American Legion ball most recently. “It was T-ball in Burlington before I moved to Chanute. I think I was four years old. I’ve played every year since. In eight and under is when I started doing travel baseball with the Chanute Titans,” said Barnett. “That team ended up quitting and I went to Burlington, the Strikers, played with them for three seasons. I think we picked up a state title.”
Humboldt Cub senior Kaiden Barnett makes a catch in the eld in May of 2022.
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Page has been able to get up close and personal with some of the teams at Allen when he was much younger through the annual baseball camps the teams hold every season. This allowed him to gain access to many of ACC coaches’ and players’ thought processes and how they see the“That’sgame. where I first heard about Allen and their baseball program,” said Page. “I got contacted by the coach two weeks before school started. I was a late pick up guy.” The middle infielder in Page expects the jump from high school to college baseball to be a big step up and he’s ready to take on any challenges that come along with that. Beginning college can also be anxious for any young person and none so more than Page.
As another summer wraps up, some area athletes will be making the transition from high school to college sports. A big jump to say the least. Included are former Humboldt baseball players Kaiden Barnett and Gavin Page. Both student-athletes competed at the state level for the American Legion Iola Indians team this summer and will be playing at Allen Community College in the spring. Allen provides these student-athletes a full slate of practices and games beginning now so they can continue to play year round. Barnett and Page have been by each other’s side mainly playing the infield through their high school baseball days. Barnett played a lot of third base and Page primarily started at shortstop this past“Thisseason.past season I definitely played more third,” Barnett said, in addition to shortstop.“Freshman year I pitched a lot actually. We didn’t have a lot of Bothpitchers.”ballplayers hope that Allen can be used as a stepping stone to reach their ultimate goal of playing baseball at a bigger four-year university.“Ever since I was little I always said I wanted to play college baseball, so it was a pretty big weight off my shoulders when I finally got that offer. I actually used to be terrible at hitting when I was younger. Freshman year is when it really hit me that I needed to do something,” BarnettBarnettsaid.never thought he would end up at Allen Community College after he mainly worked with other college coaches throughout his playing days. The process worked out great, however, as the Red Devil coaches welcomed Barnett with open arms after hearing about the opportunity from his coach at Humboldt, coach Mike Miller.
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ATLANTA (AP) — Greg Norman braced for another fight with the PGA Tour and was equipped with what he often referred to as the tour’s “playbook” from the first time he tried to start a rival league. This version might have a similar ending. Norman’s first attempt to assemble an exclusive field to play for big money around the world never got off the ground. The PGA Tour wielded its political influence, Arnold Palmer stood behind the heritage of the tour and that was that. And then the PGA Tour stole his idea. What emerged were the World Golf Championships, the richest events (back when a $5 million purse meant something) with no cut and a limited field. Former PGA Tour Commissioner Tim Finchem publicly thanked Norman for his “determination and suggestions of 1994” when the first WGC was played. In that respect, this is starting to feel like a repeat.Reports over the weekend — the most thorough from No Laying Up, which has engaged top players on its podcast for years — pointed to a plan to create up to 15 tournaments offering some of the richest purses for a limited field of elite players.Those were the most pertinent details that emerged from a players-only meeting last week. Norman must feel as though he has seen all this before. But this was less about trying to quash Saudi-funded LIV Golf and more about taking the PGA Tour in a modern direction that emphasizes its biggest names. And what makes this different from 1994 is how the movement unfolded.NoLaying Up reported 23 players in attendance at the invitation-only meeting. That included — it starts with, really — Tiger Woods, who flew to Delaware from Florida for the“Wemeeting.need to get the top guys together more often than we do,” Rory McIlroy said the next morning, the closest any player came to a public revelation. “I’m talking about all in the same tournaments, all in the same weeks.” For now, the plan is somewhere between a vision and reality. The players have been in touch with Commissioner Jay Monahan, and he could provide a better sense of where it all stands when he speaks Wednesday ahead of the Tour Championship.Butthevalue of that meeting went far deeper than details. By all accounts, the players left inspired, unified and unusually quiet. Xander Schauffele smiled when he referred to the silence as a “code,” which is not to suggest he was joking. Said one player, speaking on condition of anonymity to honor such a code, “When was the last time all the top players got together in the same room? That has never happened before.”Itspoke to the ownership the players have taken of their tour, and their determination to stave off the greatest threat professional golf hasWorthfaced.noting is 16 of the top 20 players in the world ranking were in the room. Among those missing, one didn’t become a PGA Tour member until three weeks ago (Tom Kim). Another is reported to be leaving for LIV Golf after this week (Cameron Smith). Hideki Matsuyama and Sungjae Im might have required translation, though they should have been included. Matsuyama was said to be curious why he wasn’t invited. Two people who know of his plans say the Japanese star is not going anywhere. They spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because Matsuyama has not said anything publicly about hisSomeplans.of those players still might leave for LIV one day. After Brooks Koepka did an aboutface in the span of one week in June, no one should be surprised by any defection. If so, what they leave behind might be similar to what they are joining.If this is the path forward for the PGA Tour, is it the answer? Short fields, no cuts, big money. Where you have heard that one before? More than a WGC concept, it sounds like it was torn from the gospel of what Norman was preaching, minus the concept of team golf with silly names. But it will have far more relevance under the umbrella of a tour, the identity of professional golf for more than 50 years. And it won’t have the scrutiny over the source of funding — the Public Investment Fund — that LIV Golf seems to constantly face. One other difference in the playbook is Norman’s first challenge in 1994 never made it to court.For the three LIV golfers who sought a temporary restraining order to compete in the FedEx Cup playoffs, the ruling against them was a big setback. At this point, players who sign with LIV Golf should not expect to play anywhere on the PGA Tour until at least 2024, and the majority of them might miss out on all the majors unless they go through openAllqualifiers.thewhile, the PGA Tour could be headed toward a new model of small fields, big purses, guaranteed money because of no cuts and the option to play other PGA Tour stops that have special meaning to them and still have a good purse.Perhaps the tour should have thought of thisInsooner.thelong run, maybe it’s better this way. One of the messages that came out of the antitrust lawsuit filed by defectors is that every PGA Tour player had a right to feel like a defendant. “This is your tour,” they were told.Now they’re acting like it really is.
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PHOENIX (AP) — There are two lockers in the visitors’ clubhouse at Arizona’s Chase Field — bigger than all the others — that are usually reserved for veteran stars who have earned a little extra room to spread out. The St. Louis Cardinals are one of the few teams with too many options.Thejumbo digs were eventually assigned to Albert Pujols and Yadier Molina, and who could really argue? They’re two veteran superstars in their 40s nearing the end of Hall of Fame-caliberButcareers.theguys stuck in the smaller lockers next to the rookies and journeymen are almost as impressive: There’s 40-year-old Adam Wainwright, a right-handed pitcher with 193 career wins and three All-Star appearances. Across the room was 34-yearold Paul Goldschmidt, one of the game’s best first basemen who is a seven-time All-Star and in the midst of an MVP-caliber campaign. Right next to him was Nolan Arenado, the 31-year-old third baseman with seven All-Star appearances and nine GoldIt’sGloves.awealth of veteran expertise that’s not lost on first-year manager Oliver Marmol, who at 36 is younger than many of the veterans.
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The St. Louis Cardinals’ Albert Pujols is batting .450 in August with eight homers and 18 RBIs over the past month. He is seven home runs shy of 700 for his career.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Kevin Durant and the Brooklyn Nets are stayingAtogether.traderequest that jolted the franchise and dominated NBA headlines has been removed. The Nets will return next season with their All-Star forward in uniform — and with their championship hopes intact.The Nets said Tuesday that the team’s leadership met a day earlier with Durant and business partner Rich Kleiman in Los Angeles and “agreed to move forward with our partnership,” general manager Sean Marks said in a statement.Marksattended the meeting along with coach Steve Nash and owners Joe and Clara Wu“WeTsai.are focusing on basketball, with one collective goal in mind: build a lasting franchise to bring a championship to Brooklyn,” Marks added.That is certainly more likely by keeping Durant, who remains one of the best scorers in the NBA. He is set to begin a four-year extension he signed last summer, and the possibility of him being traded had been the biggest story in the NBA this summer. It’s unknown exactly why he sought a trade, which came at the end of a turbulent year in Brooklyn. A championship favorite before last season began, the Nets barely made the playoffs and then were bounced by Boston in four games in the first round. The Nets then refused to give a contract extension to Kyrie Irving, Durant’s close friend, forcing him to pick up his option for next season, the final year of his deal.The uncertainty around Durant’s future in Brooklyn likely contributed to the Nets being left off the five-game Christmas lineup and being scheduled to appear only eight times on ABC and ESPN. But with Durant, the Nets can still be one of the best teams in the Eastern Conference. He averaged a franchise-record 29.9 points last season, and the Nets were bidding for the top spot in the East before he suffered a knee injury that sidelined him for 21 games.With Durant, Irving and Ben Simmons, who is expected to return after not playing for the Nets last season following his trade from Philadelphia, the Nets will have a top trio. Joe Harris also will be back after the two-time NBA leader in 3-point percentage was limited to just 14 games because of left ankle surgery. It would have been hard for Durant to find many better situations, and the Nets likely had little interest in trying to land him one. Few teams could have offered the type of trade package the Nets would have sought and still been able to remain a championship contender.The Nets believed they had built one in the 2020-21 season after acquiring James Harden to play with Durant and Irving. But they dealt with injuries throughout that season and were eliminated by eventual champion Milwaukee in seven games in the Eastern Conference semifinals, despite Durant scoring 48 points in the final game, the most ever in a Game 7. Durant was brilliant again last season but couldn’t save a season that was marred by Irving missing most of Brooklyn’s home games because he refused to get vaccinated against the coronavirus. Harden then asked to be traded and was swapped in the deal for Simmons in February.
“One thing this organization has done really well is pass on the history of what winning really looks like,” Marmol said. “This is what the work looks like in order to win. Those guys — there’s not a stronger group.” And here’s the most important part: The quintet of veteran stars isn’t just in the clubhouse for show. They’re producing at a high level, which has pushed the Cardinals to the top of the NL Central. They had a fivegame lead over the Brewers going into Monday’s games. Pujols is enjoying a renaissance at 42 years old. He’s batting over .450 in August and has eight homers and 18 RBIs over the past month. The threetime MVP is making a run at 700 career homers, sitting at 693 with 41 games left in the regular season, which he says will be his last. He’s treated as baseball royalty even at opposing parks. The crowd at Chase Field gave Pujols a standing ovation before his first at-bat in all three games of the most recent weekend series. And he was cheered at Wrigley Field when he took Drew Smyly deep in the seventh inning Monday night, giving the Cardinals a 1-0 victory over theTheCubs.slugger isn’t consumed with the attention. He crushed two homers as part of a 4-for-4 day on Saturday, but didn’t raise any fuss when Marmol elected to take him out of the game and use rookie Nolan Gorman — who is two decades younger — as a pinch hitter. Nobody looked happier than Pujols when Gorman singled. “This isn’t about one guy, it’s about 26 guys on the roster,” Pujols said. “I think when you have a great group of guys, it’s easy to come in and enjoy what you do. ... We’re playing great schmidtFriday.thethree-hithasaccustomedducingold3.11withmiddlebeenlaterWainwrightbaseball.”turns41thismonthandhasrocksolidintheoftherotationa9-8recordandERA.The40-year-Molinaisn’tpro-attheratehe’sto,butstillhismoments,likeagameagainstDiamondbacksonThenthere’sGold-andArenado, who are in the prime of their careers. Goldschmidt is putting together perhaps his finest season — the soft-spoken first baseman leads the majors with a .337 batting average, while adding 34 doubles, 31 homers and 100 RBIs. Arenado has been nearly as good, batting .299 with 25 homers and 81 TheirRBIs. consistency has allowed St. Louis to climb the NL Central standings. Monday’s win over the Cubs moved them to 16-3 in August. Goldschmidt said it isn’t easy, even if this group of Cardinals sometimes makes it look like it. “The hardest part is sometimes you just show up, and you’re off, so you’re trying to figure what gives you the best chance of success,” Goldschmidt said. “That’s probably my number one goal — trying to be consistent. We play this game every day, it’s hard, there’s ups andAsdowns.”good as Goldschmidt is, even he turns into a fan watching“WhatPujols.he’s doing is superhuman,” Goldschmidt said. “That guy is amazing.”Thefeeling is mutual. Pujols was raving about a defensive play from Saturday’s game, when Arenado fielded a high chopper with his bare hand and fired a low throw to first that Goldschmidt was able to dig out of the dirt. Game respects game. And the Cardinals have a lot of “Thoseit. guys are unbelievable. That’s why they’re both Gold Glovers,” Pujols said. “All those plays that you see, those are things that I see (Arenado) practicing. It’s crazy. Who practices plays like that? But he does, because it might happen in the game. ... Pretty amazing, from both of them.”
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coach Pat Fitzgerald called the trip a “once in a lifetime opportunity,” noting that most of his players have never left the U.S. “We’re an international school and any time we get an opportunity to do something unique, I’m all for it,” he said Monday in suburbanNebraskaChicago. fans will comprise most of the U.S.Dougcontingent.Ewald, executive associate athletic director and chief financial officer for the Cornhuskers, said Nebraska gets the charter flights plus $250,000 to spend as they like, and he estimated the cost of a typical conference away game is $150,000 anyway.“Atbest this is probably a break-even proposition for us,” Ewald told The AP. Nebraska also isn’t sending over any merchandise to sell, mainly due to licensing and tax Australiaissues.hosted the most recent international regular-season game. Stanford routed Rice 62-7 in 2017 a year after Cal’s victory over Hawaii. The New South Wales state government had paid millions to fly the teams over in tourism braska’stimebeArmyBostonalartochasestagegameNFLtoenticelegeAussiesDownopenedizonagelesBaseballhosting33,000.inandmoreTheandthroughingthanksgamestinationtheSandrapromotions.Chipchase,formerCEOofDes-NSW,saidbothweresuccessestovisitorspend-and“freepublicity”mediastoriesimagesofSydney.firstgamedrewthan61,000fansthesecond—playedasmallerstadium—AftersuccessfullyMajorLeague—theLosAn-DodgersandAr-Diamondbacksthe2014seasonUnder—theturnedtocol-footballinabidtotheNFL.“Wewantedtouseittrytoconvincethetobringanopeningoragameatsomedownhere,”Chip-said.“Wewantedshowthemhowpopu-itwas.”Irelandfirsthostedgamein1988whenCollegebeat38-24.ThiswillNorthwestern’sfirstabroadandNe-second.
The White Sox rallied from a four-run deficit after their starter, Michael Kopech, exited the game having faced just four“Hehitters.feltsomething in his hamstring,” White Sox manager Tony La Russa said. “You could tell it affected his velocity. It was down, so we got him out of there.” Kopech hit a batter, allowed an RBI single to Salvador Perez, and walked the bases full before leaving with left knee“Whatsoreness.sucks most about today is I put the team in a tough situation,” Kopech said. Elvis Andrus drove in three runs in his third game with the White Sox. Chicago signed the veteran shortstop on Friday after the Oakland Athletics designated him for assignment.
TRAINER’S ROOM After batting in the second, Royals 1B Vinnie Pasquantino left the game with right shoulder discomfort. TRANSACTIONS The Royals optioned OF Nate Eaton to Omaha to make room for Waters. UP NEXT White Sox RHP Dylan Cease (12-5, 2.09 ERA) takes the mound in Baltimore opposite RHP Austin Voth (3-1, 4.86). The Royals begin a two-game set against Arizona, with RHP Zach Davies (2-4, 3.99) facing off with RHP Jonathan Heasley (6-4, 3.27).
Ireland Minister for Sport Jack Chambers sees it a long-term investment by government“Thepartners.COVID backdrop obviously had an impact, but this is about getting it back and growing it over the next number of years,” Chambers told The Associated Press. “It’s something we’re committed to. We’re confident around the economic evaluation of this and the benefit it brings the country but also the opportunity it brings for everyone that’s coming, whether it’s tourism, enterprise, personal or business.”
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Drew Waters drew a bases-loaded walk to break an eighth-inning tie in his major league debut, boosting the Kansas City Royals to a 6-4 win over the Chicago White Sox on Monday in a game rescheduled because of the lockout in April.Joe Kelly (1-3), the seventh of eight White Sox pitchers, hit a pair of batters to start the inning. Ryan O’Hearn singled, and Waters drew a five-pitch walk with one out to break a 4-all tie. “It’s a big deal just getting here and the being able to contribute like that,” Royals manager Mike Matheny said. “He did a great job. He showed a lot of poise on some pretty close pitches.”Waters, who was recalled from Triple-A Omaha before the game, was hoping to do more. “Just looking for a pitch to drive,” he said. “Late in game, with the bases loaded, I was just looking for a pitch that I could at least get out to the outfield. I got ahead in the count and was looking to do damage. I was able to draw a walk out of it.”
The Chiefs also began to pare down their roster to the 80-man limit, waiving cornerbacks Nasir Greer and Brandon Dandridge along with offensive lineman David Steinmetz.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Pro Bowl defensive tackle Chris Jones and wide receiver Mecole Hardman returned to practice with the Kansas City Chiefs on Monday, when they moved their training camp base from Missouri Western back to their own facility. Jones had been dealing with a back injury and Hardman had been out with a sore groin. There were still six players that did not practice during the first of two workouts before the Chiefs play their preseason finale Thursday night against Green Bay. Tight end Blake Bell is nursing a hip injury, defensive Carlos Dunlap a sore Achilles tendon, running back Derrick Gore a thumb injury, wide receiver JuJu Smith-Schuster a sore knee and cornerback Rashad Fenton a groin injury. Offensive tackle Lucas Niang remains on the PUP list after knee surgery.
Anthony would not disclose specifics of how much the teams get financially but for Northwestern it will “replace the revenue that they could get from a home game ... they’re not doing it for less than that.” Northwestern, a private institution, did not respond to a request for“(A)comment.school does not make this decision because they want to make a bunch of money. They want it for the experience for their student-athletes and their university and following and their constituency,” Anthony said. “When you get 5, 10, 25,000 fans from your school in a totally foreign land just because you’re putting on a game there, you’ve wonNorthwesternalready.”
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Jose Abreu had three hits and two walks for the White Sox, who have dropped four of five since winning five straight.Chicago stranded 11 runners, including eight from the fourth through sixth innings. “We had chances and couldn’t break open the inning,” La Russa said. “Left a lot of guys on base. Just a very frustratingAmirloss.”Garrett (3-1) pitched a scoreless eighth and Scott Barlow finished for his 20th save.“The bullpen did a great job today,” Matheny said. “Those guys are on point just about every night. Amir, in a real tough spot, we needed him to comePerezthrough.”snapped a three-game hitless streak (0-for-10) as the Royals batted around in the first inning, scoring four. Michael Massey and O’Hearn also had RBIThehits.six runs were the most scored by the Royals since Aug. 10. Kansas City batted .167 while losing six of seven on the road last week, totaling 10 runs. Chicago batted around in the fourth, capped by Andrus’ tworun single, cutting Kansas City’s lead to 4-3. Andrus then tied the game with an RBI double in the seventh.
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Organizers were expecting 18,000 Americans and 5,000 Europeans with an economic impact of 63 million euros ($63 million) on the Irish economy. Besides the U.S. travelers, only another 3,000 are coming from outside Ireland. The economic impact has been downgraded to “at least” 40 million euros ($40 million), Anthony Internationalsaid.ticket sales were hurt by COVID-19 concerns, and local fans have not seen an American football game live since 2016 when Georgia Tech beat Boston College, 17-14. It probably didn’t help, too, that both Nebraska and Northwestern are coming off 3-9 seasons. Still, it’s providing the largest inbound tourism event of the year for Ireland. And as a Northwestern home game, it figures to draw more than the average attendance of 30,679 at Ryan Field last season.
College football continues International games with Big Ten
Two Chiefs return College football has been around the world since Ireland first hosted a game more than 30 years ago, with locales as disparate as Tokyo and Toronto staging games.Australians loved the touchdowns and halftime theatrics, not to mention the hot dogs and beer, the latter of which ran out during California’s 51-31 win over Hawaii in 2016. Fordham and Holy Cross have taken their rivalry abroad twice, the second time before not quite 2,500 fans in Bermuda in 1995. Now, college football takes the leap again when Nebraska faces Northwestern in Dublin on Saturday in the first regular-season international game in five years.“We intend to kick off the season every year in Ireland,” said John Anthony, founder of Anthony Travel and Irish American Events, the game’s organizer. Ireland has a fivegame deal in place for the series dubbed the Aer Lingus College Football Classic. Notre Dame was set to headline the first one, against Navy, in 2020 but it was called off because of the pandemic. Last year’s Nebraska-Illinois game was moved to Champaign for the sameNotrereason.Dame and Navy will now play at Aviva Stadium in next year’s opener. Based on the 2020 figures — 40,000 tickets sold in the U.S. — it should sell out with capacity near 49,000. The Big Ten showdown Saturday will have attendance in the “mid-30s,” Anthony said, including 13,000 fans coming from the United States.
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