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Hospital ready to restart services

By VICKIE MOSS The Associated Press

If Gov. Laura Kelly allows stay-at-home orders to expire Sunday, Allen County Regional Hospital is ready to restart elective surgeries on Monday.

Other services that have been postponed or reduced — like group therapy for senior citizens, sleep studies and physical therapy — also will

St. Luke’s takeover pushed back to July 1 PAGE A5 ramp back up.

Visitor restrictions, though, will continue. Visitors are allowed at the hospi-

tal only under certain conditions, such as one person to accompany a patient who is undergoing surgery. All visitors and patients must undergo a screening process to determine their likelihood of having COVID-19, have their temperature taken and wear a mask.

The hospital’s auxiliary volunteer service will not be called back yet, as most of those volunteers are among

the age group most at risk for complications from COVID-19.

The hospital postponed 6070 elective surgeries because of the virus, Larry Peterson, chief financial officer and interim CEO, said. Since the global health crisis began, the hospital has offered only urgent or emergency surgeries.

The hospital typically conSee ACRH | Page A3

Guidelines set to get back to business

By RICHARD LUKEN The Iola Register

With the state poised to slowly emerge from a COVID-19 shutdown, the Southeast Kansas Multi-County Health Department has released a series of guidelines for various businesses to follow as they reopen their doors to the public.

The guidelines were derived from the federal “Opening Up America Again” plan, Allen County Public Health Officer Rebecca Johnson said Tuesday. She presented copies to county commissioners at their regular weekly meeting, and has since posted them on the SEKMHD website.

The recommendations provide specific measures for each business category to facilitate a safe reopening, Johnson said.

The plan includes specific entries for: — Retail and jewelry stores.

— Restaurants and convenience stores.

By RICHARD LUKEN The Iola Register

— Close contact services, such as barber shops and hair, nail or tanning salons.

— Childcare services.

— Medical and health services, such as doctors, dentists, physical therapy providers and optometrists.

— Entertainment venues (gaming, exercise, museums and planetariums.)

— Youth athletic activities.

— Pharmacies.

— Real estate and commer-

Senate hopeful urges GOP chairman to resign

By TIM CARPENTER and SHERMAN SMITH Topeka Capital-journal

Kansas Republican Dave Lindstrom responded to maneuvering designed to convince him to quit the U.S. Senate race by proposing Tuesday that the chairman of the state’s Republican Party resign for trying to manipulate outcome of the open primary.

Lindstrom, a former Johnson County commissioner and player for the Kansas City Chiefs, said Kansas Republicans deserved better leadership than offered by state party chairman Mike Kuckelman. The chairman asked Lindstrom and Senate President Susan Wagle to drop out of the Senate campaign last week to help thwart the candidacy of former Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach.

Kuckelman’s strategy was to clear space for U.S. Rep. Roger Marshall, the 1st Dis-

County debates plans to reopen

Dave Lindstrom

Mike Kuckelman

trict Republican. Without Lindstrom and Wagle on the stage, a path for Marshall to overtake Kobach might be plausible.

“I don’t mind dust-ups,” Lindstrom said. “I mind unethical behavior. I mind poor leadership.”

Lindstrom said he asked during a telephone call Tuesday that Kuckleman step down from the Kansas GOP position. He said Kuckleman declined to quit.

The opportunity to capture the U.S. Senate seat to be vacated by retirement of Pat Roberts has drawn interest from Republicans and DemoSee GOP | Page A5

cial businesses.

— Manufacturing and industry.

— Agriculture.

To access the guidelines, go to sekmhd.com/frequently-asked-questions.

Links send readers to each of the above business categories.

Businesses and organizations not covered in the guidelines, such as senior living facilities, home health,

hospice, public health, hospital, fire departments, EMS, law enforcement and correctional centers must follow protocols already established by the Kansas Department of Health and Environment, Centers For Disease Control or Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Johnson said.

Gov. Laura Kelly’s stay-atSee BUSINESS | Page A5

The Allen County Courthouse will be open for business as soon as the state gives the go-ahead.

County commissioners discussed the protocols that will be followed, assuming Gov. Laura Kelly does not extend her stay-at-home order.

The order ends Sunday.

Several safeguards will remain in place, as prescribed by state and federal health officials.

All visitors likely will continue to be directed to enter the courthouse through its north entrance, and the number of customers likely will be limited to only two or three in each office, commissioners agreed.

County Treasurer Crickett Maley expects her office to be flooded by residents who have been unable to renew their vehicle registrations for March or April. Plus See COUNTY | Page A3

Blind justice: No visual cues for court phone cases

By JESSICAL GRESKO and MARK SHERMAN The Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) — On the evening before he was to argue a case before the Supreme Court years ago, Jeffrey Fisher broke his glasses.

That left the very nearsighted lawyer with an unappealing choice. He could wear contacts and clearly see the justices but not his notes, or skip the contacts and see only his notes.

It wasn’t hard to decide. “I couldn’t imagine doing argument without seeing their faces,” Fisher said.

He won’t have a choice next month.

Because of the coronavirus pandemic the high court is, for the first time in its 230year history, holding arguments by telephone. Beyond not being able to see the justices’ nods, frowns and hand gestures, the teleconference arguments in 10 cases over six days present a range of challenges, attorneys said, but also opportunities.

Roman Martinez, who will argue in a free speech case, said the lack of visual cues may change what sense is most important. “Maybe it will concentrate the mind on listening,” he said.

The unprecedented decision to hold arguments by phone was an effort to help slow the spread of the virus. Most of the justices are

at risk because of their age; six are over 65. And hearing arguments by phone allows them to decide significant cases by the court’s traditional summer break.

The attorneys arguing before the court include government lawyers as well as those in private practice.

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We are dying until we choose to put our faith

in God, then we possess life from that point on through eternity. (Ref: Genesis 1 and 2:7,8,10,15; John 3:3-21 and 7:37-38 and 10:10; 1 Peter 1:3-4) Church services will remain “drive-in� style for a few more weeks.

Stay tuned to the Colony Christian Church Facebook page for further information.

Iola engineer celebrates 40 years working at KDOT Iolan Glen Cunningham, an engineer with the Chanute materials lab of the Kansas Department of Transportation (KDOT), is celebrating 40 years with the department.

Cunningham began working for KDOT in April 1980 with the regional materials office in Garnett. Through the years he also worked at the Iola construction of-

fice, where he performed testing procedures on U.S. 169 bridge decks.

In a KDOT press release, Cunningham said his favorite aspects of the job are the regular hours, flexible time schedule, good co-workers and good benefits.

Glen and wife Betty have been married 41 years. They have 12 children and 13 grandchildren.

Virus has now killed more Americans than Vietnam War

By KURTIS LEE Los Angeles Times

U.S. coronavirus-related deaths reached a somber milestone Tuesday, surpassing the number of Americans killed in the Vietnam War. More than 58,300 Americans have died from COVID-19, according to a tally kept by Johns Hopkins University. That compares with the National Archives’ figure of 58,220 deaths from the Vietnam War, which lasted more than a decade.

Confirmed cases of COVID-19 topped 1 million in the U.S. on Tuesday, according to Johns Hopkins.

The novel coronavirus has laid siege to health care systems and battered economies around the world since health officials first identified it in December in Wuhan, China.

As President Donald Trump on Tuesday applauded states that had reopened during the pandemic, several governors warned that cau-

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New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said officials would be measuring certain critical data points as the state reopens businesses in the weeks ahead. Among those points, Cuomo said, is whether hospital emergency rooms begin to exceed 70% capacity. “Don’t overwhelm the hospital system,� Cuomo, a Democrat, said during a news conference Tuesday. “If you ever hit 70%, you can expect the number to go up for the next two weeks as people who just got infected actually get ill and some of them come into the hospital.�

New York has remained a hotbed of the coronavirus outbreak in the U.S., with 292,000 cases and nearly 17,300 deaths. Its stay-at-home requirement is set to expire May 15, but the order could be extended.

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States can’t go bankrupt, only default

By JIM SAKSA CQ-Roll Call

WASHINGTON — Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s suggestion last week that he’d rather let states go bankrupt than see Congress rescue their coronavirus-decimated budgets raises the question: What would a state bankruptcy look like?

It would first require Congress to amend the federal bankruptcy code, which has never allowed state governments to declare bankruptcy. Municipalities — broadly defined as a town, city, county or other subdivision of a state, like a school district or independent authority — have been allowed to declare bankruptcy since 1937, but for states the only option would be defaulting on their debts.

It’s unlikely McConnell will be able to persuade the rest of Congress to go along with amending the bankruptcy code. His comments were met with swift and harsh backlash. “You want to send an international message that the economy is in turmoil? Do that,� said New York Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo at a news conference Friday. “Allow states to declare bankruptcy legally because you passed the bill. It’ll be the first time in our nation’s history that that happened.

I dare you to do that.�

On Thursday, fellow Republican Rep. Peter T. King of New York likened McConnell to Ma-

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY).

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rie Antoinette.

In casual conversation, “bankrupt� and “broke� may be interchangeable terms. But bankruptcy is a legal process in which a person, company or municipality reorganizes its debts. It happens when an entity is insolvent — when there isn’t enough money to pay everyone what they’re owed. Companies also have the added option of shutting down and selling assets to pay off as much of the debt as possible.

One reason for bankruptcy to be unavailable to states is that they have the ability to raise taxes, and thus get the money to pay their debts. State bankruptcy thus risks being used for political purposes. McConnell hinted at such a purpose when his office said the federal COVID-19 aid shouldn’t be used to “bail out state pensions.� Bankruptcy, if it were available, could be a way to avoid meeting a financial obligation to those pensions.

Even with COVID-19 wreaking havoc on state budgets, it’s unlikely

that any would be insolvent under the meaning of the bankruptcy code, Breckinridge Capital Advisors’ co-head of research, Adam Stern, wrote recently. “No state is insolvent right now, probably not even Illinois. Illinois can certainly choose to default on its debt obligations, but it likely cannot establish that it is ‘insolvent’ for the purposes of bankruptcy law,�

Stern wrote.

Pension costs are one of the biggest drags on states’ fiscal health, and Illinois has one of the worst-funded public pensions in the nation — just 38.4% funded as of 2017, according to a Pew Charitable Trusts report in 2019. McConnell’s home state of Kentucky, at 33.9 percent, had the lowest public pension funding ratio in the nation.

While bankruptcy is unavailable, forcing states to tighten their belts could still have a large impact on economic recovery. State and local government spending is also a large part of the national economy, making up a

little over 10% of GDP last year — about on par with the manufacturing sector.

Stern notes that states can already legally abrogate bond or pension obligations when it’s “reasonable (an emergency exists, for example) and necessary (no other choice exists but to renege on the contract).� This would take the form of a state negotiating with specific creditors to reduce the debts while still paying them in the interim.

Reorganization under bankruptcy law takes many different shapes — federal bankruptcy judges have wide latitude to structure them. Loans due can get pushed back, making each payment smaller.

Some debtors get forced to accept less — take a haircut — than they were originally owed.

In a theoretical state bankruptcy, leaders would essentially cede their power to negotiate independently with some of their creditors to the binding arbitration of an unelected federal judge, who might opt for politically untenable solutions, such as cutting pensions.

Bankruptcy is messy and chaotic, but defaulting could be worse.

There aren’t many examples of state default.

The last state to stop paying its bondholders was Arkansas in 1933.

Puerto Rico, a territory, recently defaulted on some of its debts, deepening an ongoing financial catastrophe on the island.

US economy shrank at 4.8% rate last quarter

By MARTIN CRUTSINGER The Associated Press

In just a few weeks, businesses across the country have shut down and laid off tens of millions of workers. Factories and stores are shuttered. Home sales are falling. Households are slashing spending.

Consumer confidence is sinking.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. economy shrank at a 4.8% annual rate last quarter as the coronavirus pandemic shut down much of the country and began triggering a recession that will end the longest expansion on record.

The Commerce Department estimated Wednesday that the gross domestic product, the total output of goods and services, posted a quarterly drop for the first time in six years.

And it was the sharpest fall since the economy shrank at an 8.4% annual rate in the fourth quarter of 2008 in the depths of the Great Recession.

The drop in the January-March quarter will be only a precursor of a far grimmer GDP report to come on the current April-June period, with business shutdowns and

layoffs striking with devastating force. With much of the economy paralyzed, the Congressional Budget Office has estimated that GDP will plunge this quarter at a 40% annual rate.

That would be, by a breathtaking margin, the bleakest quarter since such records were first compiled in 1947. It would be four times the size of the worst quarterly contraction on record set in 1958.

In just a few weeks, businesses across the country have shut down and laid off tens of millions of workers. Factories and stores are shuttered. Home sales

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Consumer confidence is sinking.

The GDP report showed that the weakness was led by plummeting consumer spending, which accounts for 70% of economic activity. Consumer spending tumbled at an annual rate of 7.6% in the first quarter — its steepest decline since 1980.

Business investment was also weak: It sank 2.6%, with investment in equipment down a sharp 15.2%.

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Government spending was up 0.7% in the first quarter, a figure that will likely accelerate with all of the support Congress has approved for rescue

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And housing showed a 21% increase in the first quarter, boosted by lower mortgage rates. But home sales, like much of the economy, have taken a nosedive since the virus-related shutdowns began in mid-March.

As the economy slides into what looks like a severe recession, some economists are holding out hope that a recovery will arrive quickly and robustly once the health crisis has been solved — what some call a V-shaped recovery. Increasingly, though, analysts say they think the economy will struggle to regain its momentum even after the viral outbreak has subsided.

Many Americans, they suggest, could remain too fearful to travel, shop at stores or visit restaurants or movie theaters anywhere near as much as they used to. In addition, local and state officials may continue to limit, for health reasons, how many people may congregate in such places at any one time, thereby making it difficult for many businesses to survive.

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Saint Luke’s takeover pushed back

By VICKIE MOSS The Iola Register

The coronavirus pandemic has pushed back a hospital lease to the last possible minute.

Allen County Regional Hospital’s lease to the Saint Luke’s Health System will take effect July 1, after being pushed back for a few

months first for various logistical reasons and now because of delays caused by the global health crisis.

The hospital’s current management contract with HCA Healthcare ends June 30.

Progress on the transition has ramped up, as employees prepare to transition from Allen County employ-

ees to Saint Luke’s.

Numerous policy discussions have taken place as officials decide which of Allen County’s policies and programs to keep, and which they’ll adapt from Saint Luke’s.

A new administrator, Elmore Patterson of Alabama, is training with the Kansas City-based system and likely won’t

Trump orders meat plants to stay open

take the reins at ACRH until shortly before the transition.

“A lot of activities are winding down,” Larry Peterson, ACRH chief financial officer and interim CEO, said. “We’re working with Saint Luke’s and HCA to make sure everything happens nice and smooth on July 1.”

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump took executive action Tuesday to order meat processing plants to stay open amid concerns over growing coronavirus cases and the impact on the nation’s food supply.

The order uses the Defense Production Act to classify meat processing as critical infrastructure to try to prevent a shortage of chicken, pork and other meat on supermarket shelves. Unions fired back, saying the White House was jeopardizing lives and prioritizing cold cuts over workers’ health.

More than 20 meatpacking plants have closed temporarily under pressure from local authorities and their own workers because of the virus, including two of the nation’s largest, one in Iowa and one in South Dakota. Others have slowed production as workers have fallen ill or stayed home to avoid getting sick.

“Such closures threaten the continued functioning of the national meat and poultry supply chain, undermining critical infrastructure during the national emergency,” the order states.

The United Food and Commercial Workers International Union, which represents 1.3 million food and retail workers, said Tuesday that 20 food-processing and meatpacking union workers in the U.S. have died of the virus. An es-

ACRH: Prepares to resume surgeries Continued from A1

ducts about 70 surgeries a month. That number dropped to 55 in March, when the crisis began, and to just 10 in April.

If surgeries resume, anyone who requires anesthesia will need to take a test for COVID-19 a few days prior to surgery. Those with positive results will not receive surgery.

THE VIRUS hit the hospital’s bottom line by hundreds of thousands of dollars, but ACRH already has recouped most of the loss through state and federal grants with more expected to come.

ACRH’s net revenue was down $369,000 in March, and the financial hits didn’t begin until the second half of the month. April will be much worse, Peterson predicted.

Preliminary estimates indicate the hospital lost about 35% of its typical patient revenue in April.

“I expect we’ll have a pretty bad month” when the numbers are finalized, Peterson pre-

dicted.

But the hospital is flush with cash after taking out a $3.7 million loan in the early days of the pandemic, a precautionary step to ensure financial stability at an unsure time.

Most of that money is untouched and $2.5 million is sitting in a bank, to be used to pay back the loan.

Peterson said he took out the loan to make sure the hospital had sufficient cash flow. At the time, he wasn’t sure what the impact of the health crisis would be or what sort of financial assistance would be available.

“Before we got that, we were having some serious cash flow issues,” Peterson said.

A couple of weeks after the hospital received the loan proceeds, it took in $518,000 from the federal CARES Act. Another $100,000 arrived from the State of Kansas Monday. He expects a second round of financial assistance from the CARES Act, but isn’t sure how much money will come.

The hospital also

plans to apply for the Small Business Administration’s Payroll Protection Program, although it’s not clear if funds will still be available.

He also plans to ask FEMA to reimburse the hospital for its staffing expenses to screen visitors and patients who enter the hospital. Staff must cover the entrances 24/7. The FEMA reimbursement program has strict requirements and will only cover 75% of the costs.

PATTY McGuffin, chief nursing operator, gave hospital trustees an update Monday evening on the response to the coronavirus pandemic.

Allen County has not yet reported a positive case of COVID-19, and there is currently no one under investigation for the illness at the hospital’s laboratory.

Allen County has tested 115 residents, a rate of 9.30 per 1,000 residents, according to the Kansas Department of Health and Environment. Not all of those tests may have been

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conducted at ACRH, though.

The hospital has enough testing supplies to conduct more than 100 additional tests, McGuffin said. The hospital also has enough personal protection equipment on hand, with options to access more through the HCA Healthcare system or private vendors, or from access through the local emergency preparedness department.

If the hospital sees patients with COVID-19 symptoms that are serious enough to require a ventilator, that patient would be sent to a larger facility in Kansas City. HCA, which currently manages ACRH, is sending COVID-19 patients to Research Medical Center. That facility has 80 intensive care beds available, and is currently caring for about 18 virus patients, she said.

ACRH will go ahead with a Red Cross blood drive on May 13 and 14, but the location will be moved to the North Community Building.

timated 6,500 are sick or have been exposed while working near someone who tested positive, the union says.

As a result, industry leaders have warned that consumers could see meat shortages in a matter of days. Tyson Foods Inc., one of the world’s largest food companies, ran a fullpage advertisement in The New York Times and other newspapers Sunday warning, “The food supply chain is breaking.”

“As pork, beef and chicken plants are being forced to close, even for short periods of time, millions of pounds of meat will disappear from the supply chain,” it read.

Tyson suspended operations at its pork plant in Waterloo, Iowa after a slew of infections, and Smithfield Foods halted production at its plant in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, after an outbreak infected 853 workers there.

The 15 largest pork-packing plants account for 60% of all pork processed in the U.S., and the country has already seen a 25% reduction in pork slaughter capacity, according to UFCW. A senior White House official said the administration was trying to prevent a situation in which a “vast majority” of the nation’s meat processing plants might have temporarily closed operations, reducing the availability of meat in supermarkets by as much as 80%.

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property taxes are due May 10.

Maley said a line of chairs will be positioned in the courthouse hallway, positioned at least six feet apart. If business is so heavy all those chairs are occupied, others will be asked to wait outside.

Commissioners encouraged her to stay open all day, giving customers more time to conduct business, thus relieving crowd sizes.

“This is not new to any of us,” Commissioner Jerry Daniels said, noting businesses

have established protective measures since the COVID-19 pandemic restrictions were put in place weeks ago. “People need to understand they may need to wait outside for a few minutes.”

“I see us starting out, and we may have to change a couple of times,” Commissioner Bill King said. “You may have to adapt and adjust.”

Many of the safeguards boil down to common sense, King added.

Keeping workers and the public safe will remain the highest priori-

ty, Commissioner Bruce Symes added.

Plexiglass splash guards have been ordered for several courthouse offices, due to arrive any day.

Courthouse employees will be required to have their temperature taken when they arrive for work each day. Those with a fever, or other symptoms of COVID-19 will be sent home.

Maley asked if that was necessary, noting the employees who have been working through the shutdown have been doing so with an abundance of precaution already.

Symes encouraged Maley to err on the side of caution.

“We want to instill with the public the idea that we’re doing what we can to make them feel safe,” Symes said.

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While the Secretary of State’s office already has ruled out all-mail voting for the August primary election, Riebel said she’s already received inquiries from registered voters to have their ballots mailed to

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She asked commissioners about a proposal to mail out applications for mail-in ballots to all of Allen County’s registered voters, which would cost in excess of $9,500. (There have been murmurs the costs would be reimbursed by the state, Riebel noted.)

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Despite let-up, Kansas must use interval to prevent resurge in cases Compared with other states, Kansas has thus far been fortunate in the COVID-19 pandemic.

Thanks to early, decisive leadership Gov. Laura Kelly, the state essentially shut down in mid-March. As of April 27, we’ve seen about 500 hospitalizations and 120 deaths due to the respiratory illness — both unfortunate, to be sure, but far from the worst.

Thus, while most of the rest of the country bitterly debates the process of opening back up, in Kansas, the process seems relatively straightforward. Yes, we need increased testing. Yes, we want to make sure that workers in the meatpacking sector are not put at risk on the job. But a gradual process beginning next month seems to make sense.

That being said, no one should see this shift as a triumph. Indeed, it’s only the end of a prelude to this story.

Whether we continue to see positive outcomes in the future depends on large part how we use these next few months.

Because, make no mistake, there will likely be a fall flare-up. A combination of flu season and escalating coronavirus cases will challenge the health care system once again, and will likely induce another round of public concern.

Will we be ready?

During May, June, July, August and September, we need to see this country move wholesale into preparedness.

Masks and other personal protective equipment must be

manufactured in huge quantities. Governments at all levels must invest in public health infrastructure to allow tracking and tracing of those with the virus.

Testing capacity, through the private and public sector, must be at least doubled and then increased even further.

ON A BROADER scale, our institutions must also prepare. How will schools provide education for the next school year? How will city and state government provide essential services? How will these things be paid for?

What kind of support will the federal government need to provide?

We will have an island of time to do these things. We could all lose focus over this time, as the summer temperatures rise and our desire to see normalcy return increases.

But that would risk the warning we’ve experienced over the past two months. We must rededicate ourselves to battling the risk of this disease, so we aren’t caught unprepared again. We can then avoid such draconian measures as shutting down the better part of the state economy and the accompanying social disruptions.

We can continue to keep the wheels of our society and economy moving.

But only if we act quickly and decisively now, and only if we don’t waste a single moment.

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There will be other photo ops Like an addict jonesing for his next fix, President Donald Trump seems to chafe at how social distancing restrictions are preventing him from performing before his campaign rallies.

The president appears to have settled on an acceptable substitute — a June 13 graduation ceremony for the U.S. Military Academy. Having spoken to graduating classes at the Coast Guard, Navy and Air Force academies over the last three years, Trump wants to check off West Point this year.

Like any addict, Trump is unconcerned about the damage he could cause to those around him. Yes, it’s six weeks out, but there’s no reason to believe that New York state, nor the academy itself, is prepared to host a graduation ceremony amidst a pandemic.

Fortunately, West Point may be subtly trying to signal to the commander in chief that bringing back 1,000 men and women in relatively close proximity during a pandemic, in contravention of current administration public

health guidelines, is not the greatest idea.

A press release on April 22 included the line, “The Class of 2020 will return to campus in time for the June 13 graduation ceremony.” That language is scrubbed from an edited release now posted in its place.

With damn good reason.

The reinitiation of large gatherings is in phase two of the White House’s own state reopening guidelines. New York won’t be initiating phase one until mid-May at the earliest; West Point follows state direction.

So, with the Navy already confronting serious outbreaks on two vessels — the USS Theodore Roosevelt aircraft carrier and the missile destroyer USS Kidd — here’s the pressing question for the military and its commander in chief: Which is more important, facilitating a terrific photo op for the commander in chief or preventing the possibility of a COVID-19 boomlet right up the Hudson from the first U.S. hotspot?

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Mike Traw, IHS senior, has won an appointment to the Air Force Academy. ***** Picture: Emerson Lynn, Rotary Club immediate past president, and Keith King, president, are shown discussing the final details for the welcome sign east of Iola on U.S. 54 which the service club

paid for and had constructed.

Plans for similar signs are in the works for the south and west entrances to town. ***** Shawna Robb, an IHS junior, is among 12 southeast Kansas basketball players traveling to the Soviet Union this summer to play in a basketball tournament. Former Iolan Leslie Crane will be the assistant coach for the team.

Candidates take umbrage at request

By MICHAEL RYAN The Kansas City Star

When they said to self-isolate, the Kansas GOP must have heard “self-immolate.”

Those of you who merely want a secure and prosperous nation — with a limited and accountable government, and judges and justices who adhere to the Constitution rather than the prevailing political winds — take note: Kansas Republicans seem Former Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach — who lost in hellbent on losing retiring 2018 to Democrat Laura Kelly in the governor’s race — is poised Pat Roberts’ U.S. Senate seat, to win the Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate race. The which they’ve held for nearpresumptive Democrat nominee is Rep. Barbara Bollier of Misly a century. And that could sion Hills. (Shelly Yang/Kansas City Star/TNS) very well tip control of the chamber, and much if not all Clearly the idea, and it’s a if that means Republicans of Washington, D.C., to Dem- good one, is to isolate and beat end up losing the Senate seat ocrats.

Kobach, the in November, he says, then You can get pumped up widely reviled Lindstrom and Wagle “will about voting for Donald and mostly have responsibility for that.”

Trump again, but if he los- i n e f f e c t u a l More to the point: With es the Senate along with populist fireWagle and Lindstrom each the House, there’s not much breather who polling at about 5%, without point. Most of his agenda, no- would bring them in the race, there would tably to include conservative the match to be enough votes to swing the jurists who respect your right the party’s nomination between Marto be largely left alone, will self-immola- Susan Wagle shall and Kobach. hit a brick wall. That’s how tion — as he Not only did Kuckelman’s important the Senate is. did in losing gambit only embolden WaMoreover, if Kansas Re- the race for gle and Lindstrom, it tagpublicans lose this seat, the governor. teamed Marshall and Kobach political and social earthProblem into the party’s verbal cage quake will be felt from coast is, Kuckelmatch. Kobach wrote a letter to coast. Democrats, especial- man’s letter to Marshall challenging him ly if it means they win the and phone to repudiate Kuckelman and, Senate, will hold the Kansas calls appear in essence, refuse the party’s Dave Lindstrom Senate race up as a national to have had help in narrowing the field. referendum on their agenda. the opposite Not to be outdone, MarIt would, in reality, be a effect, instead convincing shall, a doctor, responded statement on Kansas Repub- state Senate President Wagle with a handwritten note aclicans’ solidarity, or the lack and former Johnson County companied by a photo of him thereof.

Commissioner Lindstrom to in scrubs. Saying he was too While Kansas Democrats dig in their heels and stay in busy treating COVID-19 parally behind one candidate the race. tients to type a letter, Marto replace Roberts, state Sen. In fact, Wagle claims Kuck- shall pointedly reminded KoBarbara Bollier, and cov- elman is targeting her specifi- bach of “the consequences of er her up to the eyeballs in cally, and only using the com- a Democrat administration at campaign cash, here’s the panion letter to Lindstrom the state level when we nomblueprint Reas cover. While inated a person who can’t publicans are Ku c k e l m a n ’ s win.” Marshall also remindfollowing: I want them both to letters to both ed Kobach it was under KoEverybody and bach’s chairmanship that the leave the race. At some Lindstrom runs for the Wagle asked state GOP was fined for camrare and po- point, this crowded them to leave paign finance law violations. tent open seat, race has to stop. the race, Wagle This round to Marshall. regardless of says only she But in fact, the party as a — Mike Kuckelman, one’s chancwas asked to whole has bloodied itself, to Kansas GOP chairman es, giving the do so by phone. the delight of Democrats. best-known Lindstrom camGiven the polling numbers and least-electpaign support- and fundraising figures, it able candidate er Dave Owen would take a miracle for Wa— failed 2018 gubernatorial confirms that. gle or Lindstrom to catch up contender Kris Kobach — the “He adamantly asked me to to Marshall and Kobach, and inside track to the GOP nom- walk away and get out of the the coronavirus has outlawed ination. race,” Wagle said of Kuckel- miracles.

Then have a big old public man’s call.

Kuckelman’s advice to take fight when it’s suggested that In contrast, Owen says, one for the team couldn’t be the horde be culled for the Kuckelman’s written request more apt. This should be the sake of the herd. to get out “blindsided” Lind- Republicans’ race to lose, Pruning the apparent strom. and with a muddled field that eight-person Republican So, one candidate feels tar- hands the nomination to Kofield of its medium-sized geted, the other blindsided. bach, the party may, indeed, branches is what state GOP Kuckelman dismisses Wa- lose it.

Chairman Mike Kuckelman gle’s claim of targeting out If this all seems like inhad in mind when he wrote of hand, saying that, without side politics, it is. But there’s second-tier candidates Susan a clear path to victory for ei- rarely been a more important Wagle and Dave Lindstrom ther one, “I want them both to time for rank-and-file voters Thursday, asking them to exit leave the race.” With the June to stick their heads inside the race. That would leave the 1 filing deadline looming, and see what’s going on. two top-tier candidates, 1st Kuckelman says, “at some It’s not pretty.

About the writer: Michael District Congressman Roger point, this (crowded race) has Ryan is an editorial writer Marshall and former Kansas to stop.”

Secretary of State Kobach, to It’s not likely to. Kuckel- and columnist for the Kansas battle it out. man fully realizes that. But City Star.

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crats. The GOP is keen to retain Roberts’ seat because it has implications for holding the Republican majority in the U.S. Senate. Democrats see an opportunity to claim a Kansas seat in the U.S. Senate for the first time since Franklin Roosevelt was president.

The Kansas Republican Party didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment about Lindstrom’s proposal.

Last week, Kansas GOP executive director Shannon Golden said the key in 2020 was to avoid nominating Kobach because he could replicate his 2018 defeat to Laura Kelly, a Democrat who won the race for governor.

The theory is Kobach would again be politically demonized in the November general election by Democrats such as state Sen. Barbara Bollier, who has outperformed Re-

publicans in terms of raising campaign donations, or Manhattan City Commissioner Usha Reddi.

Golden said the state couldn’t “afford to make the same mistakes we did in 2018, and that is why we asked candidates with no viable path to victory to clear the field.”

Kuckelman made that argument in letters sent to Wagle and Lunstrom. Both candidates rejected Kuckelman’s proposal.

Kobach said grassroots Republican voters should be outraged

by Kuckelman’s attack on the three GOP candidates. The next senator from Kansas should be chosen by the people rather than a party boss, Kobach said.

Women active in Republican politics in Kansas say Kuckelman’s actions over the past year have grown from alarming to insulting.

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home order expires Sunday night. Johnson said she expects the governor to spell out a phased roll-out for Kansans to follow.

JOHNSON encouraged residents with questions about the guidelines to call her offices at 365-2191 in

Iola, (785) 448-6559 in Garnett, (620) 223-4464 in Fort Scott and (620) 625-2484 in Yates Center.

The press release also lists places in the area at which residents can obtain protective gear such as cloth or other protective masks, gloves and sanitation products.

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White House ‘studying’ another stimulus round

By JENNIFER SHUTT CQ-Roll Call (TNS)

WASHINGTON — Momentum appears to be building for another round of direct payments to households, as lawmakers and the Trump administration start discussions on a new COVID-19 aid package.

“That’s something that we’re studying very carefully, and I know that people in the House are as well,” White House economic adviser Kevin Hassett said Tuesday.

Speaker Nancy Pelosi, House Ways and Means Chairman Richard E. Neal, D-Mass., and other top Democrats have for weeks had more direct financial assistance on their list of priorities for the next aid bill.

Legislation that House Democrats introduced last month proposed checks and direct deposits of up to $1,500 per person, which was higher than the amount ultimately signed into law.

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Three of the 25 are women. Most have made multiple Supreme Court arguments and are familiar to the justices, although seven are giving their first arguments before the court. The Trump administration’s top Supreme Court lawyer, Solicitor General Noel Francisco, will argue twice.

The cases the justices are hearing include fights over subpoenas for President Donald Trump’s financial records and cases about whether presidential electors are required to cast their Electoral College ballots for the candidate who won their state.

Justices have long said that the written briefs lawyers submit are vastly more important to the cases’ outcomes than what’s said in court. But the arguments also help them resolve nagging issues and occasionally can change a justice’s vote.

Beyond their importance to the justices, arguments in the soaring, columned courtroom can crackle with drama that would seem to be hard to replicate over the telephone. The court is taking steps to maintain the solemnity, however. The telephone sessions will begin with the traditional cry from the court’s marshal of “Oyez! Oyez! Oyez!”

Noah Purcell, who is arguing on behalf of Washington state in one of the presidential elector cases, has one experience that makes him feel somewhat fortunate: A previous high-profile phone argument. In 2017

he argued by phone, and won, a challenge to Trump’s travel ban before three appellate judges, although the Supreme Court later sided with the president.

This phone argument, with nine justices, presents different hurdles.

Most of the justices have distinctive voices, but several lawyers said they feared mixing up Brett Kavanaugh and Neil Gorsuch, the two newest justices. The court removed that pitfall Tuesday when it announced the justices would ask questions in order of seniority instead of their usual free-for-all-style argument. Purcell had said he would “probably just say ‘your honor’” to be safe. And arguing from his home isn’t really an option because there are “too many risks of interruption:” his children, ages 2, 5 and 7.

Purcell plans to go to his office, but because he’s on the West Coast, his case will be heard at 7 a.m. PDT, making for an unusually early start to his day. It’s tough to sleep on the night before a Supreme Court argument anyway, said Purcell, who is making his third argument before the high court.

Like other advocates, he’s doing practice arguments by phone. Lawyers who already have done telephone arguments as the virus outbreak has forced courts around the country to move to phone or video hearings also have advice.

William Jay, who has argued Supreme Court cases both as a government lawyer and in pri-

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vate practice, said he took a friend’s suggestion and spread a towel over his desk to reduce the noise of shuffling papers when he had a recent appellate argument by phone.

He stood for the entire argument, as he would in court, but he didn’t put on a suit and tie. “I’m not going to tell you just how disheveled I might have been,” Jay said.

Being invisible to the justices has other advantages, too.

Ian Gershengorn, who will be at his home in Bethesda, Maryland, to argue in an Indian lands case, said he will probably hear from colleagues by text before he wraps up his arguments. If he were arguing in court, they might instead pass him a yellow sticky.

And Gershengorn, who is making his 16th argument, said he won’t memorize his opening as he usually does, because the justices won’t be able to tell if he’s looking at notes. Reading from a prepared script is frowned upon in the court’s arguments guide for lawyers.

Some things won’t change, including Gershengorn’s muffin and Diet Coke on the morning of arguments. He’ll try to relax. But instead of looking around at the courtroom’s marble columns and friezes and thinking “this is pretty awesome that I get to do this for a living,” he expects he’ll be at the desk in his guest bedroom.

What will he think?

“This is a really weird way to do this,” he said.

“Hopefully that will relax me too.”

Democrats on a conference call earlier this month that more cash payments are a priority for a new aid package, which she said could top $1 trillion, though that was before the latest $483 billion measure became law Friday.

President Donald Trump said this month that he favors another round of direct payments, though he didn’t specify a figure. “We could very well do a second round of direct.

I would do a direct,” he said during a White House briefing on April 6.

The roughly $2 trillion aid package enacted last month included what the Treasury Department calls “economic impact payments” of $1,200 for individuals making less than $75,000 in adjusted gross income. Couples received $2,400 if they made less than $150,000, with $500 extra per child. Total payments start to phase out above those income thresholds.

The IRS said Tuesday that as of April 17, 89.5 million payments had

been issued, totaling $160.4 billion. The agency expects to send out more than 150 million payments overall, which the Joint Committee on Taxation estimates will ultimately cost $293.4 billion.

During the initial bargaining over what became the massive $2 trillion aid bill, the Trump administration pitched the idea of two rounds of staggered payments, six weeks apart. But Senate Republicans and House Democrats ultimately settled on an initial payment, with the possibility of another round later if economic conditions continued to worsen.

Last week, the Congressional Budget office estimated that U.S. real gross domestic product would shrink at an annual rate of nearly 40% in the second quarter, an unprecedented contraction. The unemployment rate is set to hit 15% later this year, highest since the Great Depression.

It could take some time for another round of checks to go out, how-

ever. Lawmakers and the White House have yet to begin serious discussions on the next aid package, with likely protracted negotiations over more money for state and local governments, among other issues.

It’s also not clear what legislators’ timetable for returning to full sessions is. The Senate is expected back on May 4, but it’s unclear for how long. The House was due to return the same day, but Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer, D-Md., said Tuesday that was no longer the case.

Hassett, however, predicted there would ultimately be a deal on a new round of coronavirus relief.

“I expect that it’s very likely there will be a ... deal. And we’re going to be speaking with the president throughout the week about what he thinks should be in there,” he told reporters from the White House driveway. “So I think the odds of there not being another round, at least one more round, of legislation are pretty low.”

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Biden wins delayed primary in Ohio COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Joe Biden won Ohio’s presidential primary, clinching a contest that was less about the Democratic nomination and more about how states can conduct elections in the era of the coronavirus.

Tuesday’s primary was the first major test of statewide elections via mail amid an outbreak.

There were reports of confusion but no widespread disruption. It wasn’t like Wisconsin earlier this month, when voters were forced to overlook social distancing guidelines to stand in line wearing masks to cast ballots.

“Within the context of the threat of the virus, it’s a decision that we will have made the best of,” Republican Ken Blackwell, a former Ohio elections chief who chairs the bipartisan International Foundation for Electoral Systems, said of mail-in balloting.

Overall turnout was surprisingly strong, said Secretary of State Frank LaRose. While his office said about 1.5 million votes had been cast as of midday Saturday, down sharply from the 3.2 million cast in Ohio’s 2016 presidential primary, he said some larger counties received tens of thousands of additional ballots Tuesday.

“It was better than OK. It was great,” he said.

The primary, originally scheduled for March 17, was delayed just hours before polls were supposed to open.

Citing a “health emergency,” Republican Gov. Mike DeWine recommended that in-person balloting not be held until June 2. But amid legal challenges, officials moved balloting to this week while converting to a mail-in process since the state remains under a stayat-home order.

Most Ohioans casting absentee ballots had to run at least three pieces of mail — an application, a blank ballot and a completed one — through the U.S. Postal Service. Only homeless and disabled people were initially encouraged to cast in-person ballots at county election board offices, though anyone not receiving ballots by mail in time to participate could also turn up in person.

Lynne Marshall, of Sylvania, opened her mailbox Tuesday and was disappointed to see that her ballot had not arrived. She then agonized over whether to cast a vote in person at the election board and put her health at risk or stay home and skip an election for the first time she can remember.

“What should I do?” she asked. “I’m just really disgusted with it all. Of course, I’ll feel guilty if I don’t vote.”

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New federal laws may not help uninsured

By CELIA LLOPIS-JEPSEN Kansas News Service

The small crew of health care workers at Guadalupe Clinic in Wichita — aided by dozens more who volunteer there — sees nearly 2,000 people a year.

Every one of them is uninsured, and all visits are free.

Guadalupe can’t yet check patients for COVID-19. But emergency federal legislation might help the nonprofit roll out that service to the low-income neighborhoods it serves.

“Our patients live in small apartments, small houses,” where COVID-19 can spread quickly, executive director J.V. Johnston said.

“So testing would be important for us.”

Stimulus funds promise to cover coronavirus testing and treatment for the uninsured.

Still, benefits for the 250,000 people without health insurance in Kansas remain unclear.

Experts see potential loopholes in the new federal laws and policies that could risk leaving people on the hook for hundreds, even tens of thousands, of dollars for hospital stays.

And while the Trump administration says the offer to help will stop when funding runs out, it has yet to say how much money it’ll spend.

The confusion could keep many sick people from seeking care. At the same time, the uninsured often work essential jobs that don’t give them the luxury of hiding from the virus at home.

“This crisis is exposing big gaping holes in our health care system,” said Sabrina Corlette, a professor at the Georgetown University Center on Health Insurance Reforms. “When we have a public health crisis like

this … the last thing you want is someone to hesitate to get tested and treated.”

Help on the way

The Kaiser Family Foundation estimates coronavirus could put between 670,000 and 2 million uninsured people in the hospital nationwide.

The uninsured may face a higher risk of contracting the novel coronavirus because so many work face-to-face jobs, such as cashiering and housekeeping.

Two stimulus bills passed by Congress in March should benefit people without health coverage.

The Families First Coronavirus Response Act gives states the option of covering COVID-19 testing for the uninsured through Medicaid. That would include both the lab work and the office visit for the patient.

But it wouldn’t help with coronavirus treatment, which can total daunting sums. Kaiser and the Peterson Center on Healthcare estimate inpatient bills for a serious case of COVID-19 could top $20,000 even when people do have job-based health plans that negotiate down the prices.

The Trump administration came under fire to act. It has declined to reopen access to the Obamacare exchange but vowed instead to use money in another stimulus bill, the CARES Act, to reimburse hospitals at Medicare rates for treating the uninsured.

Kaiser initially estimated that could use up between $13.9 billion and $41.8 billion of a $100 billion portion of the CARES Act meant to help hospitals cope with the pandemic. Now that the Trump administration has said the money would also go for care beyond hospital admissions, Kaiser says the plan could use up even more funds.

This has sparked some controversy among health care providers worried the dollars won’t stretch, Kaiser senior fellow Karyn Schwartz says.

“That’s less money that’s available to help them buy protective equipment for their staff,” she said.

The White House and Congress have since agreed to add $75 billion for health care providers to weather the storm.

But the administration has yet to say how much CARES money it will set aside for the uninsured — while making clear that help will stop if that unspecified amount of money runs out.

Waiting to hear more

The typical patient at Guadalupe cobbles together paychecks from various part-time jobs that don’t offer health coverage, said Johnston, the clinic’s executive director.

As the pandemic costs people their jobs, he expects more will likely need help.

“If they have no income,” he said, “they’re going to buy food and pay their rent before they pay their health insurance.”

Johnston is eager to learn how reimbursement for testing will work, and whether Guadalupe can participate.

The money will flow through state Medicaid programs, and his donation-funded clinic has never billed Medicaid before because it only sees the uninsured.

“So it’s (up) in the air now,” he said, “but hopefully that’s the case.”

Like other states, Kansas is still working out the kinks of this unprecedented use of its Medicaid program.

As of late April, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services said it had only approved two states to cover coronavirus testing for the uninsured.

Once Kansas clears that same hurdle, CMS said in an email, Medicaid could kick in retroactively, for tests conducted no earlier than March 18 (when the new law took effect).

Risk for surprise bills

Even bigger questions remain about how billing will work for the far costlier treatment of COVID-19.

The CARES Act contains provisions meant to prevent “surprise bills” — when a hospital or a doctor charges patients for more money directly beyond what health plans pay.

But several health insurance experts studying the act expressed concern that it shields uninsured patients from hospital charges without protecting them against independent billers under the same roof, such as anesthetists or emergency department staff.

They have similar concerns about how billing will shake out when someone tests negative after treatment has begun. And what if, they wonder, the patient can’t get a coronavirus test at all and is given one for the flu instead?

“We know due to the lack of testing capacity,” Georgetown’s Corlette said, “that many, if not a majority, of people who present with COVID-19 symptoms are turned away without a test. But they’re still charged for the visit.”

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sa Dodge doesn’t qualify for Medicaid, but the program does cover her children’s health care.

The complexity of it all — and lack of clarity — doesn’t surprise Katherine Hempstead, a health insurance expert at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

“We have a very complicated, highly segmented health care system,” she said, and now a pandemic has sent the country scrambling for fixes to help millions of Americans get testing and treatment. “You can kind of see all these little patches that we’re trying to erect.”

In Kansas, if those patches don’t work well — hampering efforts to control the coronavirus or leaving patients saddled with the kind of massive medical bills that drive mounting public frustration with American health care — it could fuel the political push to extend full Medicaid coverage to more low-income adults.

‘A lifesaver’

That includes Derby resident Melissa Dodge.

She fears what the novel coronavirus would mean for her 9-year-old daughter with heart and lung problems. Or the danger it could pose for her mother, who is over 60.

But she has another worry: As a single mother caring for her four children while working part-time, she has no health insurance.

“My anxiety was always high because I knew the financial risks” of being uninsured, Dodge said. “Add a new global pandemic on top of that, and it’s terrifying.”

Dodge takes every precaution she can.

When the pandemic hit, her employer agreed to move her shift later in the evenings and let her spend more of it stocking shelves — two things that reduce her exposure to other people.

When she gets home past midnight, she peels off a face mask, scrubs her hands and changes clothes before so much as sitting down.

Though she doesn’t qualify for Medicaid, her children do. She has driven to Topeka before to beg lawmakers to give people like her the same benefit.

“It’s a lifesaver for my family,” Dodge said. Her 9-year-old has had multiple heart surgeries. Another of her children is autistic.

But if she needs care for herself, Dodge struggles with what that debt would do to her family.

“The financial aspect of COVID,” she said, “is probably one of the most unspoken scary parts of it.”

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NASCAR driver Brad Keselowski, center, leads Kyle Busch, top, and Kevin Harvick, bottom, down pit road at Charlotte Motor Speedway during the 60th Coca-Cola 600 in 2019.

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offered input on NASCAR’s plan, but he believes the race can go forward on Memorial Day weekend for the 60th consecutive year.

“We believe that unless health conditions go down, we believe we can hold the Coca-Cola 600,” Cooper said. “I think NASCAR will be making that announcement, but that’s what will happen.”

NASCAR on Monday gave teams its latest revised schedule, which shows racing resuming May 17 at Darlington

Raceway in South Carolina, followed by a second race at that track on May 20. The 600 would be held on May 24, followed by a second race at Charlotte on May 27.

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League talks options for reopening NEW YORK (AP) — Major League Baseball is exploring various options that could allow the season to start if the medical situation allows, including a plan in which the 30 teams might be split into three regional divisions.

Among the formats under consideration is one in which teams could be restricted to playing within their region, two people familiar with the discussions said Tuesday.

The people spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because no public statements were authorized.

That plan, if used, would break up the traditional alignments of the American and National Leagues. It also would cut travel during the coronavirus pandemic.

MLB also has looked at configurations for all-Arizona, Arizona-and-Florida and Arizona-plus-Texas-plus-Florida locations, the people said. The latest plan was first reported by USA Today.

Another variation would have teams start in Arizona, Texas and Florida, playing in empty ballparks, and then if the health situation allows, switch later to their regular-season sites. If conditions improve later in the year, they possibly could start playing before fans with only a percentage of seats sold.

Opening day had been scheduled for March 26, but the new coronavirus caused MLB to delay the start to mid-May at the earliest.

Any plan would be subject to medical approval plus consent of federal, state and lo-

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — NASCAR can go forward with the Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway without fans in attendance at the end of May unless health conditions deteriorate in the state, the governor of North Carolina said Tuesday.

Gov. Roy Cooper said he and state public health officials have had discussions with NASCAR and the speedway located in Concord regarding safety protocols for staging the race. Cooper said the state

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The road to recovery

By ERICK MITCHELL The Iola Register

Bailey Griffith’s senior year took a tailspin when she tore her anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) on Feb. 18 during Marmaton Valley’s senior night game against Chetopa.

The injury derailed her hopes to lead the Wildcats onto a playoff push, as well as her dreams for one last sea-

son on the track in the orange and black. But a month later, none of it really mattered.

The COVID-19 pandemic has shuttered Kansas schools for the remainder of the school year, including the spring sports season.

“I am kind of happy about it because I didn’t have to watch people compete in the sport that I loved,” Griffith said. “I’d just be sitting there, and watch my place being

taken.”

In the fall, Griffith showcased her athletic ability during the Wildcats' volleyball season. And while MVHS stood under .500 at 15-21, she was pleased with her teammates’ progress.

“We definitely improved a lot more this year than what we have done in the past,” Griffith said.

Heading into the basketball season, Griffith and her

Wildcat teammates planned to make the same strides as they did in volleyball. And as the season progressed, Griffith witnessed the improvement.

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NFL: Kansas City Chiefs

Chiefs bid farewell to Colquitt; legacy more than punting

By VAHE GREGORIAN The Kansas City Star

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — For years and years now, Dustin Colquitt’s stall was the first you’d see when you entered the locker room at the Chiefs training facility at Arrowhead Stadium.

That always seemed about right when it came to not just their longest-tenured player but also an essential part of the connective tissue of the living, breathing organism within the room — a microcosm of the impact he has had on the broader Kansas City community with his charita-

ble work.

“A great mentor,” quarterback Patrick Mahomes said last fall, adding that Colquitt embodies doing things the right way and “has a tip for everything.”

Not to mention the ability to cast his influence everywhere.

In one moment among teammates, he might have been wielding a boombox to blast the fight song of an interviewee’s alma mater.

In another, he might have been engaged with about anyone in conversations playful or thought-provoking or anywhere in between. Or just

making people laugh or extolling a point of his Christian faith or simply being a great listener.

His loving friendship was profound to long snapper James Winchester after Winchester’s father, James, was murdered in 2016. And it speaks volumes that Colquitt once in particular held a seat on a plane flight for volatile former Chiefs defensive back Marcus Peters, whose onfield antics and protest stance Colquitt differed with.

Not to diminish what a terrific punter the two-time Pro Bowl performer was for the Chiefs, who after 15 seasons

cut him on Tuesday.

The move apparently was made to provide further salary cap relief ($2 million) as the Chiefs evidently continue to try to position themselves to make a whopping longterm deal with Mahomes and, less certainly, defensive tackle Chris Jones.

But missed most will be his rock-solid constancy amid teammates and as a community pillar, not to mention his grace, wit, candor and accessibility with the media.

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By HOWARD BLUME The Los Angeles Times

The academic year could start in late July or early August to address learning losses brought on by coronavirus-forced school closures affecting about 6.1 million California students, Gov. Gavin Newsom said Tuesday.

“We recognize there’s been a learning loss because of this disruption. We’re concerned about that learning loss even into the summer,” Newsom said. “Our kids have lost a lot with this disruption.... And you can either, you know, roll over and just accept that or you can do something about it.”

Newsom’s schools announcement came during his briefing about California’s fourphase plan to gradually reopen. The governor said the state is currently in the first phase. The second phase, which would allow select “lower risk” businesses to reopen and loosen limits on access to public spaces, might include a plan for physically reopening some K-12 campuses to offer summer school programs or consider an earlier start to the new school year.

“If this is going to work, there are some major questions we will have to answer,” state Supt. of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond said in a statement.

Among them — how to keep everyone on campuses safe and healthy?

How will schools pay for teachers and resources to facilitate the smaller class sizes that social dis-

KSU offers testing MANHATTAN (AP)— Kansas State Uuniversity said it can test up to 270 people a day and is providing testing for students, faculty or staff who show coronavirus symptoms or who have been in contact with an infected person.

The university in Manhattan is relying on a laboratory used for veterinary medical testing and the Biosecurity Research Institute set up to deal with foreign animal diseases.

Educators refer to the ‘COVID-19 slide,’ in which students are expected to return to school with only 70% of expected learning gains in reading and 50% in math. tancing requires?

“Clearly, for now, we still have more questions than answers. But now is the time for us to problem-solve and plan for California Governor Gavin Newsom speaks in front of the hospital ship USNS the future,” Thurmond Mercy that arrived into the Port of Los Angeles on Friday. TNS said.

Dr. Sonia Angell, di- other parents and ed- which they return in president of research.

Some local officials rector of the California ucators, even the kids, the fall with 70% of the Department of Public I think we might want learning gains in read- said they were not exHealth, said reopening to consider getting that ing that they would typ- pecting Newsom’s rechild-care centers is also school year moved up a ically see in a school marks and were caught year, and less than 50% off-guard. An early start, important for parents as little bit.”

The magnitude of in math. they said, could be comthey return to work, but learning loss because “We’re kind of assumplicated logistically, fifacilities will probably of coronavi- ing ... in the nancially and operate difrus school s l o w d o w n academically ferently to acclosures is p r o j e c t i o n — especially c o m m o d at e We recognize unclear, re- that You think about with expected new safety issues. cuts C a l i f o r - there’s been a s e a r c h e r s m a t e r i a l s the long game ... budget said.

A brief are being and concerns nia schools learning loss bethis is potentially have been cause of this dis- this month offered but a COVID-19 gen- about equity applied sum- the new among low-inclosed since ruption. ... You mer learning learning is eration that is come students mid-March because of can either roll loss research not continu- going to be play- and those with the corona- over or do some- to the cur- ing at the ing catch-up for disabilities. rent pandem- rate that “ J u l y virus out- thing about it. many years. ic.

In one it should,” would be break. State scenario, the said Megan p ro bl e m at ic officials have — Gavin New— Beth Tarasareport found Kuhfeld, a for all school som, California wa, an education not specified governor researcher that students research scidistricts a date for recould ex- entist at the that already opening or perience a NWEA and have plans to how campus“ C OV I D 1 9 coauthor of implement es will be reconfigured slowdown,” in which the brief. summer school,” said for the health and safety they would not see gains “You think about the Compton Unified School of students and staff.

“We have made no or losses in reading and long game ... this is po- District Supt. Darin decisions definitively math from mid-March tentially a COVID-19 Brawley. Schools use generation that is going their summer classes to in that space, but I just until the fall.

In another, more to be playing catch-up help students with spewant folks to know the troubling landscape, for many years,” said co- cial needs and those who concern around learnstudents would suffer author Beth Tarasawa, need remedial classes. ing loss,” Newsom said.

In L.A. Unified, the “Having talked to many a “COVID-19 slide,” in NWEA’s executive vice

school board approves the academic calendar but an extended school year would require union negotiation.

“Gov. Newsom outlined six very sensible metrics — such as the availability of therapeutics to deal with COVID-19 and drastically increased testing and contact tracing capacity — that would determine when it would be appropriate to lift the pandemic protections. We should meet those metrics before setting unrealistic timelines,” said Alex Caputo-Pearl, president of the L.A. Unified teachers union, United Teachers Los Angeles.

“Can we legally take their temperature before they enter campus” with no-touch thermometers? he asked. The answer was murky — yes for adults in a pandemic, said Diane K. Wagener, a health statistics and policy specialist in attendance. But she was not immediately certain about the legal parameters regarding students.

Many children could be infectious without showing symptoms, she pointed out.

While school board President Suzanne Seymour said having 30 to 35 students in class would be a “tough sell” for parents, Cherniss said reducing class size for safety reasons or to offer more academic support “was almost an impossible task.”

“Principals, please start thinking about ways to reduce class size, ways to alter schedules,” he said. “Start thinking about those kinds of concepts.”

40 KU leaders opt for 10% paycuts LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — The University of Kansas has announced that 40 of its top-paid employees, including its chancellor, will take temporary 10% pay cuts to help cushion the financial impact of the coronavirus outbreak.

KU Chancellor Douglas Girod announced the cuts in a letter this week, Wichita station KAKE reported. The letter said he, the chancellor’s cabinet, vice provosts, deans and department heads will

take the salary reduction for six months.

The cuts will generate $853,000 in savings for the university, Girod said, and the money will be redeployed for urgent needs.

Also taking the 10% pay cut are head men’s basketball coach Bill Self, head football coach Les Miles and Athletic Director Jeff Long.

Girod said in his letter that KU’s losses in the wake of the pandemic are expected to be in the tens of millions of dollars.

CDC recommends social distancing for dogs, cats

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The Centers For Disease Control and Prevention is now recommending that cats, dogs and other animals keep the same social distancing as recommended for humans.

The recommendation was made after a small number of animals — including dogs and cats — were reported to test positive for COVID-19 after they had had close contact with a person who had the disease.

While the first coronavirus infections were thought to be linked to

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a live animal market, the virus is now “primarily spreading from person to person,” the CDC said in a statement on its website. “At this time, there is no evidence that animals play a significant role in spreading the virus that causes COVID-19.”

However, it now appears that the virus can spread from people to animals. Earlier this month, a Malayan tiger in the Bronx Zoo tested positive for the virus.

Last week, at least two cats in New York tested postive. Now the CDC is reporting “a small number of pets, including cats and dogs

... to be infected with the virus that causes COVID-19.”

It advises pet owners to avoid letting their pets interact with people or animals outside your household.

Cats should be kept indoors if possible. Dogs should be walked on a leash and kept at least 6 feet away from other animals or people. It’s best to avoid dog parks and other public places where lots of people and dogs gather.

And if someone in your house becomes sick, they should isolate themselves from everyone in the house, including any pets.

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Spouse doesn’t trust her with the baby Hi, Carolyn: My wife and I have a healthy and happy 11-month-old little guy.

I gave birth to him and she is staying home with him.

My problem is that it feels like she doesn’t trust me with him. She constantly hovers and tells me what to do. It’s frustrating because not only is this my child, too, and I have pretty good instincts about what he needs, but also because I was a nanny for many years and have a degree in developmental psychology.

So, I definitely don’t lack the credentials.

Sometimes I just let her say her thing and leave it at that. But sometimes what she demands I do is very unreasonable — for example, not to bathe him when she’s not there. I get angry then and tell her to please trust me.

Then she gets upset because I don’t do what she wants me to do.

I think we’re emotionally too involved.

Can you give me a good line I can calmly say that is nice and appreciative, but firm? — Not Trusted Not Trusted: I don’t

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think this is a goodline-to-fix-it-all problem. Unless she magically responds to: “I am his parent — not his deputy parent.”

I also don’t think you are both “emotionally too involved.” You are responding to the fact that her fears are interfering with your bond with your baby! That’s utterly valid, and your level of concern about this sounds exactly right. (Though expressing that through anger can’t help, which I’ll get to in a second.)

So please treat this as an emotional problem your wife has that is already serious and has the potential to become more so if you don’t treat it as such.

I suggest a twopronged approach.

First, put yourself in the position to care for the baby solo on a regular basis. Agree on a schedule that includes activities that take your wife out of

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Both elements of this are key: You with baby alone, and on a regular basis. She will probably resist this, but hold firm. You’re no less this child’s parent than she is.

Plus, parents need breaks. It’ll be healthier for her to keep/reestablish the part of herself that isn’t an extension of marriage or family.

Second prong, professional mental health care. If she won’t get evaluated for anxiety and/or depression, then you go to a family therapist or parenting course and ask her to come with you. Your binary ignore-it-or-getangry tactics introduce alienation while leaving the core problem intact. Anger especially means you’re bottling up till you can’t help reacting vs. responding with care and purpose.

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linger coaxed him into critiquing Peters’ form in punting the ball into the stands. He stood up in the hard times, like after the special teams breakdowns at the end of the regular-season game at Tennessee last season.

And he would often take us where we wouldn’t get to otherwise go as we sought to provide that service to our audience. Sam has joked that he deserved a second byline on some of the things we wrote, and that sure rang true. The most recent example I can think of was just in January: When the Chiefs were about to start the playoffs a year after falling just short of the Super Bowl, I asked Colquitt if he felt any sense of parallel with the Royals’

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cal authorities. Any schedule with games at neutral sites or without fans would require an agreement between MLB and the players’ association.

Baseball officials have told the union of their thinking but have not made any formal proposals.

Baseball also is considering expanding the playoffs beyond the current 10-team format.

Officials have discussed extending the playoffs into November or possibly even December, using domed ballparks and warm-weather cities.

Any plan would be contingent on baseball gaining access to test about 3,000 people on a regular basis: about 1,200 players plus staff and broadcast personnel. Players most likely would need three to four weeks of workouts before opening day.

Baseball officials have been encouraged by statements about the prospect of starting the season from President Donald Trump, Govs.

Greg Abbott (Texas), Andrew Cuomo (New York) and Tom Wolf (Pennsylvania) and Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot, one of the people said.

In a sign of baseball’s significance, Cuomo appointed Yankees president Randy Levine and Mets chief operating officer Jeff Wilpon to his New York Forward re-opening advisory board on Tuesday.

2015 run after reaching Game 7 of the World Series in 2014.

Yes, it turned out, he did. And he launched into a tale about former Royals manager Ned Yost pulling Mahomes, Travis Kelce and him aside the summer before that became the basis for calling Yost and a column about the topic.

That way of treating all reflects how he embraced a role to make the most of his gifts.

Three times, Colquitt was the Chiefs’ nominee for the Walter Payton NFL Man of the Year Award for outstanding community service in the region where he’s proud his five children were born.

It’s testimony to his impact that on Tuesday there was an outpouring of affection for him from fans on social media,

where other commendations further affirmed what he meant to the operation within.

By way of example, consider this Twitter post from Mike DeVito, who seemingly would have scant reason to be so attuned to Colquitt as a defensive end who played for the Chiefs from 2013 to 2015.

“Obviously @dustincolquitt2 is a pro-bowl punter whose play on the field was crucial to @chiefs success,” DeVito tweeted. “That said, his presence in the locker room as a leader and an encourager is something even more special.

Grateful that I had him as a teammate and for his friendship!”

Dozens, if not hundreds, could probably say that about Colquitt.

For better and for worse, through the orga-

nization’s sickness and return to health and recent ascent to the mountaintop, he appeared in more games than any other Chief (238) … along the way last season breaking the record of Pro Football Hall of Famer Will Shields (224).

In the process, he went from being, alas, one of their most potent offensive weapons to, alack, the Chiefs’ version of the Maytag Repairman … known in the old advertisement as being rarely needed.

The man who punted 96 times in 2009 punted exactly half as many times last season and 45 in Mahomes’ first year as a starter.

While he remains a distinguished member of the First Family of American punters (relishing Jimmy Buffett’s “Son of a Son of a Sailor”

for its parallel to a history that now includes joining father Craig and brother Britton as Super Bowl winners), he’s also been on the field much more the last two seasons as a holder and kicker whisperer for extra points and field goals than as a punter.’

No wonder he changed his Twitter bio to say “Official Holder for the Kansas City Chiefs.”

“It sort of taints that (record) thing if you don’t ever get to kick,” Shields joked last fall about his friend.

More seriously, Shields added that the record was “awesome” and a meaningful “next mile-marker” that will be tough to top.

The same could be said in general of Colquitt, who will turn 38 next week.

The vacant job at least

for now is left to a competition between recent signees Tyler Newsome and Tommy Townsend.

But no one will ever be able to replace his unique presence and legacy here, which are far more substantial than his team record 462 punts landed inside the 20-yard line and accolades on the field.

“All things must come to an end, sooner, sooner than you hoped, prayed & pleaded for them to,” Colquitt wrote in an Instagram post, later adding, “Holding the post for 15 years has been an honor (that) I never took for granted. Thank you KC.” KC says thanks back and then some to Colquitt, who will be dearly missed on the field but also as the reassuring presence at the entrance to the team’s inner sanctum.

NCAA board supports name, image and likeness compensation

By RALPH D. RUSSO The Assoicated Press

The NCAA is moving forward with a plan to allow college athletes to earn money for endorsements and a host of other activities involving personal appearances and social media.

The NCAA announced Wednesday that its Board of Governors supports a plan that gives athletes the ability to cash in on their names, images and likenesses as never before and without involvement from the association, schools or conferences.

Ohio State President and board chairman Michael Drake called it an

“unprecedented” move by the NCAA. The next step is for membership to draft legislation by Oct. 30. A formal vote will be taken by schools at the next convention in January and new rules will go into effect no later than the 2021-22 academic year.

“NCAA membership schools have embraced very real change,” NCAA President Emmert said in a conference call with reporters Wednesday.

The nation’s largest governing body for college sports said it will still seek a federal law to keep individual states from passing their owns laws on compensation for college athletes.

The board on Monday and Tuesday reviewed detailed recommendations put forth by a working group led by Ohio State athletic director Gene Smith and Big East Commissioner Val Ackerman. The recommendations took an aggressive approach, opening the door for athletes to make money on everything from autograph signings and memorabilia sales to signing endorsement deals with companies large and small.

College athletes will not be allowed to use their schools’ logos or markings in any sponsorship deals, but they will be permitted to use agent representation in

making any deals.

Smith said there will be “guardrails” in place to ensure athletes are being compensated at an appropriate rate for their services and there will be consequences for athletes who do not meet disclosure requirements.

Payments to athletes will not be permitted to be used as recruiting inducements to high school athletes.

The need for change was sped up by pressure from state lawmakers.

California was first to pass a bill into law that would make it illegal for NCAA schools to prohibit college athletes from making money on endorsements, social

media advertising and other activities tied to name, image and likeness.

Dozens of states have followed California’s lead, some more aggressively than others.

California’s law does not go into effect until 2023 while a Florida bill awaiting the governor’s signature would go into effect July 2021.

“It’s clear we need Congress’ help in all of this,” Emmert said.

NCAA leaders have already been engaged with federal lawmakers.

The working group was put together about a year ago, but its work kicked into high gear since the NCAA convention in January.

KU Athletic heads take pay cuts

Chiefs’ Breeland arrested

By JESEE NEWELL The Kansas City Star

YORK, S.C. (AP) — Kansas City Chiefs cornerback Bashaud Breeland was arrested on several charges Tuesday in South Carolina, including possessing marijuana or hash, driving with an open container of alcohol and resisting arrest.

The 28-year-old Breeland, of Charlotte, North Carolina, was being held at the York County Jail, according to the facility's online records.

Breeland started 15 of 16 regular-season games and all three postseason contests for Kansas City this past season. He had seven tackles and an in-

Kansas Athletics has taken a first major step towards offsetting financial issues that are ahead with the coronavirus epidemic.

KU announced Monday that men’s basketball coach Bill Self, football coach Les Miles and athletic director Jeff Long would all be taking 10% pay reductions.

Those will begin May 1, and are scheduled to last for six months.

Self, in particular, said he would be returning the money in hopes “to help bridge the financial gap” the

athletic department will face.

“These times are serious, but temporary,” Self said in a release, “and it’s everyone’s hope that we can return to a safe and prosperous time soon.”

Long said KU Athletics would continue to evaluate future needs to determine whether additional salary cuts would be needed among staff members for the upcoming fiscal year.

“While we do not know when this pandemic will come to an end, we are encouraged by the strength of each of our student-athletes, coaches and staff,”

Long said. “We will continue taking steps to position our athletics department for a successful future.”

The estimated savings with Monday’s move will be around $500,000, KU Athletics said.

Miles, who is entering his second year with KU, said his family giving back the 10% salary was “something we wanted to do to help a place we’ve quickly grown to love.”

“We are all going through this pandemic together,” Miles said, “and I believe that our country will come through this stronger.”

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Breeland was charged by the York County Sheriff's Office with driving without a license, driving with an open container of alcohol, possession of less than 28 grams of marijuana or 10 grams of hash and resisting arrest.

Breeland is a 5-foot11, 195-pound defensive back from Allendale, South Carolina.

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By TIM REYNOLDS The Associated Press

Senior Bailey Griffith prepares to fire away from the free-throw line.

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weren’t expecting us to do very well, but we ended up surprising some people.”

For Griffith, her personal highlight of the season came against Pleasanton during the Blu-Jays’ midseason tournament.

More known for her ability to score on the inside, Griffith showed off her ability to fire from deep.

Griffith connected on four 3-pointers, scoring 16 points to lead Marmaton Valley to a 3429 victory in the first round of the midseason classic in January.

But less than a month later, Griffith’s season was over, and her teammates felt her pain.

“Some of them didn’t react, and then there were some that were really sad, especially because it was on senior night,” Griffith said.

“The next few games, they were like ‘we just want to win for you because you are the only senior on the team, and we just want to show you that we are here for you.’”

Not being able to compete side-by-side with her teammates was the ultimate pain, and the way the Wildcats’ season ended didn’t make matters any better.

In Marmaton Valley’s regional semifinal against Southern Coffey County, the Wildcats fell victim to a buzzer beater, losing 37-35. All Griffth could do was sit and watch.

“It was very hard to watch them play after my whole thing,” Griffith said. “Just sitting there in the stands, on the bench — I’ve never sat on the bench, so it was weird for me.”

While her high school career ended on a sour note, Griffith will get the chance to run it back. She plans on attending Neosho Community College on a basketball scholarship. A goal she once worried might never come true.

“I was very nervous about my injury, and not being able to go on into college and play sports,” Griffith said.

“I was definitely really

scared that I wouldn’t be able to compete ever again, but people that I talk to tell me that they usually are able to go back and compete pretty well. Sometimes, people come back even stronger after ACL surgery.”

Griffith is yet to receive surgery for the injury, saying the coronavirus has pushed back the procedure. At the moment, it has been a whole lot of nothing during the state’s stayat-home order.

“It had been very frustrating,” Griffith said. “I just want to be able to at least jog again. Walking all the time kind of sucks.”

It will be awhile before Griffith steps back on the hardwood. The rehabilitation period for an ACL tear can range from seven to nine months, and includes a grueling physical therapy regimen.

“I’m ready for it though, because I just want to be back and play sports again,” Griffith said. “I just want to be active.”

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Dennis Rodman was one of the rivals Michael Jordan had to conquer on his way to his first run of three straight NBA titles. And Rodman then became one of the teammates who helped Jordan pull off his second three-peat.

B.J. Armstrong saw both sides.

Armstrong was there in the beginning, when Jordan and the Chicago Bulls needed time to figure out how to eventually beat Rodman and the Detroit Pistons for Eastern Conference supremacy and a trip to the NBA Finals in 1991 that started the title run.

And Armstrong was on the other side in 1997-98, playing for a Charlotte team that lost to Jordan, Rodman and the Bulls in the East semifinals that season.

For as good as the likes of Jordan and Scottie Pippen were, Armstrong — the longtime NBA guard and three-time NBA champion with the Bulls who is now a California-based sports agent — cautions against underestimating Rodman’s role on those Chicago title teams in 1996, 1997 and 1998.

“The thing I always admired about Dennis

was he was a very, very intelligent player, and after all of the hair colors and semantics and all those things, underneath that was a really, really good basketball player, very fundamentally sound,” Armstrong told The Associated Press. “And I would argue that it would have been very difficult for the Bulls to win without him, because it’s hard to win when you don’t have bigs who can play with the physicality that’s necessary to win at a championship level.

And Dennis could meet the challenge.”

Rodman’s colorful tenure with the Bulls was one of the primary story lines covered Sunday night when the third and fourth episodes of the ESPN and Netflix documentary “The Last Dance” — a 10-part series built around Jordan’s final season with the Bulls in 1997-98 — aired for the first time.

Among the Rodman stories covered Sunday night: His “vacation” to Las Vegas, one that went longer than the 48 hours that the Bulls were willing to allow him for a break.

“Dennis always brought energy and always brought effort,” Armstrong said. “And the way he did it, it was contagious.”

The Pistons famously had “The Jordan Rules” when they were atop the NBA and holding off the up-and-coming Bulls during Detroit’s title runs in 1989 and 1990.

Armstrong said in 1998, Charlotte had its version of special rules as well — not for Jordan, but for Rodman.

“I mean, the guy just understood how to rebound,” Armstrong said. “We had an assistant coach on our staff at the time, Paul Silas.

And Paul used to always tell us that what Dennis is doing, you can’t prepare for. He was that good. You couldn’t box him out. You had to faceguard him. The reason he was a great rebounder was he understood offensive schemes and he understood the timing of the shots.”

The Rodman rules didn’t work: He averaged 17.6 rebounds, by far the best in the series, and Chicago ousted Charlotte in five games.

“All the other things that went on around him, that was just Dennis,” Armstrong said.

“But make no doubt about it — when he was between the lines, he was an excellent, excellent basketball player.”

Two new episodes of the documentary will air each Sunday night through May 17.

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weekend where it belongs.”

Cooper last week extended North Carolina’s stay-at-home order through May 8. Most teams are based in the Charlotte area and are expected to return to work this week as essential businesses.

NASCAR completed four of its 36 races before the season was suspended because of the coronavirus pandemic.

The sanctioning body has vowed to run all 36 Cup Series races, although the schedule will change dramatically and some tracks likely will be dropped this season if their state does not permit a sporting event.

NASCAR has yet to publicly release its safety plans but is expected to limit team rosters, have one-day events, and scrap qualifying and practice at many places.

A proposal to eliminate pit stops to reduce the number of team employees at the track has stalled.

South Carolina has said it will host a “spring” NASCAR race, while Florida and Texas have said NASCAR is welcome to compete without spectators. NASCAR for now is trying to schedule events only at tracks within driving distance to the Charlotte region so teams can get to a track, compete and return home in one day without needing air travel or hotel accommodations.

Darlington is owned by NASCAR, while Speedway Motorsports owns the Charlotte track. Because tracks will now likely host more events than originally scheduled, track operators will likely relinquish events at other venues to make the 36 races fit.

Eight events have been suspended, but NASCAR could have difficulty moving forward with some events, like the June race scheduled at Sonoma Raceway in California. That track is owned by Speedway Motorsports, which could

shift Sonoma's date to another one of its properties.

That sort of shuffling is what NASCAR is working through now, as well as who can enter the track and how to socially distance the teams.

North Carolina House Speaker Tim Moore, one of the state lawmakers to initially petition Cooper to permit racing at Charlotte Motor Speedway, welcomed the return of NASCAR and praised the “Tar Heel spirit.”

“I appreciate this collaborative effort to help NASCAR run the Coca-Cola 600 and believe that this is an important step in bringing our economy back, bringing businesses back, and bringing exciting competitive events back to North Carolina,” he said.

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