TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas legislators passed a measure Friday that would require abortion providers to tell patients who are taking medication to terminate their pregnancies that the process can be reversed after they take the first of two pills.
Senator Mary Pilcher-Cook
Abortion opponents contend the bill ensures that women who harbor doubts about ending their pregnancies will learn of a safe procedure for reversing a medication abortion. Abortion rights supporters contend that it’s based on junk science and the state would force doctors to provide dubious information to their patients.
The action in Kansas comes after other states, including Kentucky and Mississippi, have moved to ban abortions when a fetal heartbeat is detected , as early as the sixth week of pregnancy. Kansans for Life, the state’s most influential anti-abortion group, has long favored an incremental approach and restrictions that it believes will survive court challenges.
The Republican-controlled Kansas House approved the abortion “reversal” bill on an 85-35 vote, and the GOP-dominated Senate passed it on a 26-11 vote. The measure goes next to Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly, a strong abortion rights supporter.
Kelly staff would not say whether she will veto the bill, but she told reporters last month, “I’m not sure that’s based on science.” Supporters appear to have the two-thirds majorities necessary in both chambers to override a veto.
Medication abortions using Mifepristone, also known as RU-486, are the most common way of terminating a pregnancy in Kansas, accounting for nearly 60% of the total, according to statistics from the state health department.
Supporters of the bill argue that a medication abortion can be safely reversed if a doctor gives a woman a dose of progesterone, a hormone, before she takes the second abortion pill. They base their arguments on a 2018 studyled by an anti-abortion doctor and medical school professor in California and note that progesterone has been used for decades to prevent miscarriages.
“This simply gives a woman more information about what she can do to save her unborn child,” said state Sen. Mary Pilcher-Cook, a Kansas City-area Republican.
The bill’s opponents have said that while progesterone has been used to prevent miscarriages, its use for reversing a medical abortion hasn’t been adequately tested. The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists has disputed the usefulness of the procedure .
“It is not appropriate for the Legislature to practice medicine or mandate how a physician practices medicine,” said Sen. Barbara Bollier, a Kansas City-area Democrat and retired anesthesiologist.
Under the bill, an abortion clinic would have a display a sign with the abortion reversal notice, and the physician would have to tell a patient in writing that a medication abortion can be reversed. A clinic that failed to post a sign could be fined $10,000, and a doctor who failed to notify a patient could be charged with a misdemeanor for a first office and a felony for a second.
Two workshops focusing on accountability and technology tips in business will be offered by Fort Hays State University’s Management Development Center in April.
The first workshop will be from 8:30 a.m. to noon Thursday, April 11, and the second workshop will be from 8:30 a.m. to noon Wednesday, April 17. Both workshops will be held in the Memorial Union’s Stouffer Lounge.
“Building Powerful Teams with Accountability” will address how to hold others on a team accountable to achieve desired results, the importance of setting clear expectations, delivering in a shorter timeframe and more.
While many companies are utilizing massive and complex project management, customer relationship and inventory management systems, there are an abundance of other cost-effective ways companies can use technology to increase productivity and efficiency in businesses of all sizes.
“Tech Tips for Business” will provide individuals with a better understanding of tools, systems and topics such as responsive and progressive websites and applications, chatbots, blockchain, cybersecurity, artificial intelligence and more. Interactive examples and tutorials will demonstrate applications for businesses of any type, size and sector.
At the end of the workshop, you will be able to quickly adopt and implement cost-effective solutions that can help improve productivity, business performance and customer engagement regardless of your current technical proficiency.
A completion certificate and 3.0 continuing education units will be given to each workshop participant.
The accountability workshop will be facilitated by Gina Riedel, owner of Gina Riedel Results, and Tech Tips will be facilitated by Dr. Nicholas Caporusso, assistant professor of informatics. The workshops will cost $119 each. A 15-percent discount applies for all Hays Area Chamber of Commerce Members for a single session. Contact the MDC Department to receive the discount.
Registration is available online through the Registration link in the sidebar on the page at www.fhsu.edu/mdc. To learn more about this workshop or additional upcoming trainings, contact Hilker by phone at 785-628-4121 or by email at [email protected].
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PRATT – During the public hearing portion of its March 28 meeting, the Kansas Wildlife, Parks and Tourism (KDWPT) Commission voted on several items, to include greater flexibility in hunting equipment and approving 2019-2020 big game season dates. However, the first order of business during the public hearing session may have outdoor enthusiasts excited for an entirely different reason. Commissioners approved staff recommendations to eliminate a $10 fee previously associated with obtaining a duplicate license or permit. Beginning in early May, KDWPT customers who require a replacement license or permit will be able to reprint any license or permit purchased online for free or simply pay a $2.50 fee through a license vendor.
Other items voted on and approved by the Commission include:
Allowing hunters to use lures, decoys (except live decoys) and calls (to include electronic calls) when hunting rabbits, hares and squirrels
Designating tumble-upon-impact bullets as legal equipment for hunting big game
Moving the resident either-species deer and elk permit application deadlines to the second Friday in June, coinciding with the firearm antelope application deadline
Hunting season dates approved at the March 28 meeting are as follows:
SALINA — Jacob Wood has been named the city of Salina’s new deputy city manager.
City Manager Mike Schrage announced Friday that he has appointed Jacob Wood as the new deputy city manager. Wood was selected from a pool of 60 candidates from across the country.
Wood will begin his new role at the end of April.
“We received a terrific number of applicants for the deputy city manager position which is certainly beneficial, but also makes selection of a finalist much more difficult,” Schrage said.
Wood has served as assistant city manager for the City of Hays, Kan., since 2015. Prior to Hays, he was the city administrator in Oakley, Kan.
A native of Bennington, Wood is returning to the City of Salina where he previously held positions as a city management intern and interim manager of the Bicentennial Center.
Along with his public administration experience, Wood has served for 15 years in the United States Army Reserve, including deployments to both Afghanistan and Iraq. Wood currently holds the rank of major and serves as the Detachment Commander for the 863rd Quartermaster Detachment in Great Bend, Kan.
Wood holds a bachelor’s degree in social and political science, and a master’s degree in public administration from Kansas State University.
“Jacob’s past experience, skill sets and professional interests made him an outstanding fit for the Salina Deputy City Manager role going forward. Having worked directly with him for the two years that he was previously employed by the city was also very beneficial since it gave me firsthand knowledge of Jacob’s skills, style and fit for our organization,” Schrage said. “I am pleased that he was interested in returning to Salina and look forward to him taking on the deputy city manager role in our community.”
Wood succeeds Schrage in the deputy city manager role, which has been vacant since June 2018, when Schrage began serving as interim city manager before being promoted to city manager in January 2019.
HARVEY COUNTY — Law enforcement authorities are investigating a hit and run accident and looking for a vehicle.
Just after 4:10p.m. Friday, police responded to a hit-and-run accident in the 500 block of West Fifth Street in Newton, according to a social media report.
A teen on a skateboard was struck by a green passenger car. The car then left the scene. The teen was transported to the hospital by ambulance.
Police are looking for the driver of the green car. Anyone with information is asked to call 911 to report it.
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Republican lawmakers in Kansas pressed ahead Friday with allowing the state Farm Bureau to offer health coverage to members that doesn’t satisfy the Affordable Care Act, a state-level effort to circumvent an Obama-era law President Donald Trump wants to replace.
The Kansas House approved an insurance bill on an 84-39 vote that includes provisions to exempt health coverage offered by the Farm Bureau from state insurance regulation, anticipating that the nonprofit group could offer lower-cost products to thousands of individuals and families. The Senate approved the bill Thursday on a 28-12 vote, so it goes next to Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly.
The bill had overwhelming support from GOP legislators and faced strong opposition from Democrats, but Kelly hasn’t taken a public position on it. The Kansas proposal is patterned after a Tennessee law in place for decades, and an Iowa enacted a law last year.
The votes in Kansas demonstrated the Farm Bureau’s political clout, particularly in rural areas, where Republicans dominate politics. The bill also had the support of most urban and suburban GOP lawmakers who continue to oppose the 2010 federal health care overhaul and argue that its mandates have driven up health insurance premiums and hurt the economy.
“It’s just another option,” said House Majority Leader Dan Hawkins, a conservative Wichita Republican and insurance agent.
Passing the bill was among the last significant actions Kansas legislators took before starting an annual spring break set to last until May 1. They put off a vote on a proposed $18 billion-plus budget for the state fiscal year beginning in July until after the break.
Some Democratic critics of the Farm Bureau bill tried unsuccessfully to block its passage by appealing to rural Republicans who support expanding the state’s Medicaid health coverage for the needy in line with the Affordable Care Act. The House passed a modified version an expansion plan from Kelly last month, but the Senate has yet to take it up.
“There’s more than one piece that’s going to solve what we’re facing,” said Rep. Jason Probst, a Democrat from south-central Kansas. “We should hold this part of the puzzle up until they take
Farm Bureau officials said they expect about 42,000 people eventually to take its coverage if the law passes, promising lower rates than plans complying with federal mandates. They believe the takers would be individuals who either have no coverage or struggle to pay for individual coverage.
Kansas has seen the number of individual coverage plans offered through the federal ACA marketplace decline to 23 for 2019 from 42 in 2016, according to the Kansas Insurance Department. While average rate increases for 2019 were smaller than in past years, they’ve sometimes previously topped 25 percent, according to annual reports from the department.
Republicans repeatedly have cited premium increases as a reason to repeal the ACA since Trump’s election in 2016, but a drive in Congress to do it stalled when they couldn’t agree on a replacement. Trump this week deferred another push until after the 2020 election.
The Farm Bureau’s new coverage would avoid state regulation because the new Kansas law simply would declare that it’s not insurance.
Critics said companies offering traditional health insurance coverage would face unfair competition. They also focused on how Farm Bureau would be able to set higher rates or reject coverage for people who have pre-existing medical conditions, something the Iowa law allows.
To drive home their argument that legislators don’t know yet what a Farm Bureau plan might cover, critics said the lack of regulation would allow it to pay for elective abortions. A 2011 state law prohibits such coverage in group health plans, requiring people to buy separate abortion policies.
Supporters of the bill — many of whom strongly oppose abortion — brushed aside the criticism as desperate.
Farm Bureau officials have said they pushed for permission to offer health coverage because members are asking for more choices.
“They are clamoring for some kind of solution,” said Rep. Don Hineman, a moderate Republican from western Kansas who also supports Medicaid expansion. “The potential consumers for this product are begging us to do it.”
FORD COUNTY —Law enforcement authorities are investigating a shooting and have two suspects in custody.
Just before 2:30p.m. Thursday, police received reports of gunfire in the area of the 1200 to 1100 block of Ave C in Dodge City, according to a media release.
Police arrived immediately in the area and identified a vehicle fleeing the scene.
Before officers got the vehicle stopped, the front passenger fled on foot from the vehicle.
Multiple witnesses reported to other responding officers that they had witnessed one car chasing the other and the passenger of the vehicle officers had stopped reached out of the window with a handgun and began shooting at the subjects in other vehicle.
The victims in the other vehicle also contacted officers and provided statements of what happened. There were no injuries reported.
The driver of the alleged suspect vehicle was captured with the vehicle but the alleged shooter escaped, until Friday. When officers spotted him and took him into custody without further incident.
The DCPD has filed a case with the Ford County Attorney’s office on the 18-year-old alleged shooter for the charge of attempted 2nd degree murder and on the 19-year-old alleged driver for the charge of aid and abet attempted 2nd degree murder, according to the release.
LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) – Kansas forward K.J. Lawson says he plans to transfer for the second time, this time as a graduate transfer. That would leave him with two years of eligibility remaining.
Lawson and his brother, All-Big 12 forward Dedric Lawson, sat out last season after transferring from Memphis. K.J. Lawson appeared in 35 games, averaging 3.1 points and 2.0 rebounds.
He appeared in 42 games and averaged 11.5 points and seven rebounds while at Memphis.
His decision on Friday could be a sign that Dedric Lawson is planning to declare for the NBA draft a year early. Dedric Lawson averaged 19.3 points and 10.3 rebounds last season.
Earlier this week, point guard Charlie Moore announced he would be transferring from Kansas.
GREENBELT, Md. (AP) — A third federal judge has blocked the Trump administration from adding a citizenship question to the 2020 census, ruling Friday that it poses a “substantial risk” of undercounting Hispanics and non-citizens.
Image courtesy U.S. Census Bureau
U.S. District Judge George Hazel in Maryland also concluded that a citizenship question is “arbitrary and capricious” and violates the Constitution and the federal Administrative Procedure Act.
Federal judges in New York and California previously barred the Trump administration from adding a citizenship question to the census for the first time since 1950. The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear arguments on April 23 for the Justice Department’s appeal of the New York judge’s decision.
Hazel heard six days of trial testimony in January before ruling.
“Overwhelming evidence supports the Court’s finding that a citizenship question will cause a differential decline in Census participation among noncitizen and Hispanic households,” he wrote in his 119-page decision.
The Supreme Court justices are expected to rule by late June, which the Trump administration said is soon enough to allow printing and distribution of census forms next April.
Because of the tight timeframe for printing census forms, the high court granted unusually quick review of the first decision that went against the administration. That ruling, from a federal judge in New York, held that Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross’ decision to have the census ask about citizenship was “arbitrary and capricious” under federal law. The second ruling, from a court in California, also found that asking about citizenship would violate the Constitution, which calls for a count of all people, not just citizens.
Former U.S. Census Bureau director John Thompson, the first plaintiffs’ witness for the bench trial in Maryland, testified Ross disregarded “long established” Census Bureau protocols in adding the citizenship question. Thompson, who oversaw the bureau from 2013 through June 2017, said he doesn’t think officials properly tested the question for the 2020 census.
“It’s very problematic for me,” Thompson said of Ross’ decision.
In a court filing, plaintiffs’ attorneys said Ross communicated with former White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon, former Attorney General Jeff Sessions and other administration officials before issuing the March 2018 directive “to further the unconstitutional goal of diluting the political power of non-white immigrant communities.”
The Census Bureau began collecting citizenship data through the annual American Community Survey in 2005. Government lawyers said in a court filing that Ross decided to use the same wording from that “well-tested question” on the ACS for the citizenship question on the 2020 census.
The plaintiffs for the Maryland case include residents of Texas, Arizona, Nevada and Florida. Attorneys from the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund also sued on behalf of more than two dozen organizations and individuals. The court agreed to consolidate the claims in December.
Plaintiffs’ attorneys had urged Hazel to proceed with the Maryland trial as scheduled since the judge’s ruling in the New York case could be reversed on appeal.
FHSU took a chance by giving an injured football player a scholarship to continue his education. For that student, Tré Giles, the opportunity was life-changing.
Giles, 25, has traveled across the world and affected scores of lives, but the college education that made all that possible almost evaporated before he had settled in as a freshman.
FHSU grad Tre´Giles is the youth minister for the CrossCurrent ministry at Celebrations Community Church in Hays.
Giles came to FHSU on a football scholarship. During football camp, he jumped up and his knee snapped. He tore three major ligaments in his knee, had reconstructive surgery and lost a lot of his muscle mass.
Football was no longer going to be an option.
Giles, a first-generation college student, grew up in Colorado Springs. It was just he and his mom, who worked 12-hour shifts at a local manufacturing plant to make ends meet. He described himself as a “knucklehead” in high school. It was about sports and meeting friends and that was it.
Stuck in Hays
“It honestly felt like I was stuck at Fort Hays out here at Hays,” he said. “I had one friend here that we came to Fort Hays together, but that was about it. It was a fresh new start in a place where everyone looked different than me. They talked different than me. That was the biggest culture shock I ever had in my life.”
Giles said the pace in Hays was a lot slower than back home. To fight boredom, he dug into his studies and looked for outlets to be involved on campus. He joined Black Student Union, the Management and Marketing Association, and Collegiate DECA.
However, without a football scholarship, Giles knew he did not have the money to continue his education.
“I was in the dorms and I remember getting a couple of letters in my mailbox saying I owed some absurd amount of money by this date otherwise you can’t continue your education. In my mind, my mom can’t come up with that kind of money and neither can I, so this was a cool run. I had an injury. I had fun while I was here and did good things and got good grades and got plugged in, but it’s not going to work. I pretty much had given it up.”
A second chance
When then Vice President of Student Affairs Dr. Tisa Mason found out Giles might have to leave school because of finances, she approached then-President Edward Hammond about finding scholarship money for Giles to stay.
“Our core values really get down to our personality characteristics of grit and determination, and that’s Tré. He works hard. He is determined. He’s positive. Not only did he come into a caring environment, but you know by his joy, he helps radiate that caring environment for every student faculty and staff that he meets,” Mason said.
She said she knew Giles was going to continue to make an impact on the world.
“I wanted him to enter that world with a Fort Hays degree,” she said.
Giles was working at the FHSU Union when Mason and Hammond approached him.
Giles during a study abroad experience in China.
“They pretty much just looked at me and said ‘We want you to know we have seen your investment in the campus and the groups, so just know you have a Presidential Scholarship. Your financial stuff is taken care of for this year,’ ” he said.
Giles said he broke down and cried.
“That is what kept me in Hays because in that moment, they empowered me to do things while I was here and stay here,” he said. “I developed a sense of loyalty to the community because of that moment.”
A turning point
Although Giles acknowledges there is a valid conversation ongoing in the U.S. about the necessity of students attending college, for him, college was a turning point in his life.
“College was not necessarily about the classes always or the piece of paper you get at the end,” he said. “To me, it was an opportunity to network and meet people. To me, it was an opportunity to get involved in organizations and other countries. Those opportunities would not have been in front of me if I wasn’t in college.
“I got to develop at a rapid pace and I was exposed to things that people from where I am from don’t really get exposed to because of this opportunity,” he said. “That taught me so much. It taught me how to lead people. It also taught me how to follow good leaders. It taught me how to empower others and to be empowered. It gave me a voice, and I realized that my voice means something and, in certain spheres, it is actually worth something. I don’t think I would have learned any of that if I had just gone back home or if I won’t have come to college.”
He said sticking it out in college changed everything.
Giles during a service trip as an undergrad to Guatemala.
Giles was a member of the Student Government Association and Global Leadership Project. He served on the board of Jana’s Campaign and worked with the United Nation’s Commission on the Status on Women during his tenure on that board.
During the Trayvon Martin trial, Giles organized a civil rights protest. He said the event was intense. A truck full of men attended the protest and broadcast racial slurs from a megaphone. Despite the tension, the protest was conducted peacefully.
Giles had opportunity to travel to major cities across the United States and complete an internship with the Cancer Society in Kansas City. He spent time in China in an exchange program and volunteered at an orphanage in Guatemala. After graduation, he served in the Peace Corps in Africa.
Mason said if students lives are not changed during their time at FHSU, there has been a failure in the partnership between the student and the university. Helping students build confidence so they interact professionally and socially is important.
“It is more about learning who you are,” Mason said. “You are unlocking that untapped potential, gaining that sense of clarity and confidence about how you interact with other business professionals. …
“When we talk about wanting to have an impact on the world, it is really a broad impact, not only being good but bringing more social capital to our communities and economic prosperity and making Kansans and our families much, much stronger.”
A change for his family
Giles attributed much of his success to his professors who empowered him to use his voice and be a leader, but also to his mom.
She told him, “Tré, we struggled when you were young and I was younger, but we did everything we could to put you in a position so you wouldn’t have to struggle and you could change the narrative for our family.”
“My mom put in all the groundwork and all the foundation to where all I had to do was step into it and be consistent and show up,” he said.
“We have this saying with me and my mom. We call it, ‘Keep it pushin’. That just means no matter what shows up — the obstacles, the crap and even the triumph and success — no matter what’s in your way — you keep moving forward, you ‘Keep it pushin’.’ ”
Giles with his mother at graduation.
When Giles graduated, they both realized the significance of the moment.
“There was that moment that this might change us forever — our whole family dynamic. It is amazing that my kids — her grandkids — will have an even better life than I have because we are taking steps in that direction hopefully for generations to come. I get to be the first catalyst, because of my mom, to change our family.”
Finding faith
Giles also experienced a pivotal change in his spiritual life during college. Giles is now the youth pastor for the CrossCurrernt Ministry at Celebration Community Church in Hays, but he was not a Christian when he entered college.
He began talking to instructor LeeAnn Brown about her Christian faith. Giles’ father was not part of his life growing up, and Braun realized Giles had never had a father figure other than coaches.
At the end of his sophomore year, she introduced him to Dr. Jeffrey Burnett, health and human performance professor and leader of the college Encounter ministry. Giles was skeptical at first. He thought Burnett just wanted to use his influence on campus to bring more students into the ministry.
“For so long, I had seen Christianity as this cookie-cutter, boring thing where people were fake and pathetic, but that was the first time I met a Christian who was real,” Giles said. “He said, ‘Yo, it ain’t no cookie-cutter thing. This is about love. This is about sacrifice. This is about a decision and choice you make every day, and I want to challenge you with that.'”
Burnett described Giles when they first met.
“Tré always had that huge personality that attracted so many to his presence. Now he came from a home which was full of love from a very caring mother but also came with some hurts and instability from others,” Burnett said. “So even though Tré had his huge personality, he was a young man that was searching for a place to belong and really didn’t have a clear direction.”
Giles started going to the Encounter meetings on Wednesday nights.
“After a while, the narrative of Jesus became something I couldn’t live without anymore, and I really believed in it,” Giles said. “It healed me of so much hurt and pain and enabled me to be such a better leader, just leading how I believe Christ leads. I don’t have to say I’m doing it like Christ does. I just demonstrate it.”
Giles speaking at Celebration Community Church.
Giles continued, “Seeing something real and genuine, it was like ‘I will sacrifice for you and I will love you and I will stop and I will see you and I will support you and I will take your hand and I will walk you through the mud and I will celebrate you when you do good.’ That was Christianity for me, and that is what it is now for me. I cling to it.”
Alone in my hut
Giles said his experience in the Peace Corps solidified his faith. He was posted in Gambia in West Africa in a predominantly Muslim culture. The country is one of the poorest in the world.
He was sent to a village of 2,000 people — the only foreigner and the only Christian in the village.
“It was that time when I sat in my hut every day with no electricity and no running water and I would open my Bible and I would pray and my faith became mine because no one else around me could help me,” he said.
The connection he felt to his Christian faith was enhanced by the beauty he saw in the Muslim faith, he said.
“They sacrificed for each other. They all prayed together. There was so much family. The little they had they would give. There was not a single person who was starving in this village. Everyone took care of everyone,” he said.
Even if he does not move people to Christ, he said he hopes he instills self-dignity in them.
“I take all of these experiences and mash them all together for one thing you hope becomes a message that you hope people want to join and support,” he said. “I am learning now how to use all of these stories and experiences I have had in my short life to impact people.”
Self doubt
Despite being a regular motivational speaker, Giles said his greatest struggle is self-doubt.
“My biggest challenge has always been to be gracious with myself and to believe in myself,” he said. “That is what I care about is encouraging others and teaching them how to believe in themselves. I think that is why it is such a burden on my heart to help other people care for themselves and believe in themselves and to do things because that is my own struggle. I think the thing that burdens [people] the most is the thing that they can impact the best. …
“There is something about seeing someone figure out they are really worth something that helps me understand that I am really worth something.”
Giles with his fiancé.
Giles is recently engaged and is looking forward to his wedding and someday being a dad. He said his No. 1 goal is to be the “dopest dad ever and coolest, most supportive and loving husband.”
He said he is happy with his job working with students at Celebration Community Church, but he wants to keep expanding his reach to more people.
He said even at CrossCurrent, he knows he can’t reach every young person, but he can equip other leaders, so the ministry can reach every child.
“Someday, I want to get involved with taking so many micro-influencers — people who don’t have a million followers, but they have a thousand or a hundred really solid good people with them — and equipping those type of people to make big change.
“That is my dream. Do I know what that is going to look like yet? No. I know I will have a solid marriage and a solid family. I will be plugged into a solid church forever regardless of where I live, and I know I will always be involved in my community, trying to make those dreams a reality. I think if I do these things, the way it will happen will figure itself out.”
He added, “If we do well enough today, and another today and another today, I just feel the future will take care of itself, because we cared about today.”
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