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What is the role of a lobbyist?

By ROBERT PIERCE
Leader &Times
Much of what is discussed and taken
action on, particularly in state and federal
government, centers around the work of
lobbyists.
Lobbyists from the Topeka-based firm of
Pinegar, Smith & Associates were in Liberal
Thursday to talk to locals at the monthly
Council of Governments meeting about the
role of lobbyists in government.
Before John Pinegar and Doug Smith
talked, though, Kansas 125th District Representative Shannon Francis said lobbyists play
in an important part, particularly in rural
areas such as Southwest Kansas, in making
the voices of citizens heard.

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A L i b e r a l p o l ic e m an e x am i n e s t h e s ce n e T h u r s d a y a ft e r n oo n at
L o ck e an d C l ay f ol lo w i n g a t w o -v e h i c le a c ci d e n t in w h ic h a
C h e v y E q u i n o x r e a r e n d e d a G M C S i e r r a a tt e m p t i n g t o m a k e a
l eft t ur n on t o L oc ke. L&T photo/Robert Pierce

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HOLMES

LEADER
&TIMES
FRIDAY

Sept. 30, 2016

ALL SMILES

Redskins roll to 6-3 win

over Hays
in
matinee showdown at
Redskin Field

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Liberal Recreation Department to host

HEALTHY FUN RUN

The Liberal Recreation Dept. is hosting a 5K and 1 mile walk/run predication on Saturday. Registration for the 5K and one-mile walk/run predication will begin at 7:30 a.m,. Saturday at the Seward County Event Center;
810 Stadium Dr. The 5K race will start at 8 a.m., followed by a one-mile
walk/run prediction. Advanced registration is encouraged. The fee is a $5
donation. For more information, contact the Recreation Office during
regular business hours until 5:30 p.m. today at 626-0133.

GOOD
SAMS
Founders Day
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10 GARAGE SALES
LISTED INSIDE TODAY

Army names new

Fort Riley
commander to
replace fired officer
By LOLITA C. BALDOR
Associated Press

In this Aug. 23 file photo, Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach responds to questions
outside the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver. A federal judge canceled a contempt
hearing for Kobach after he agreed Thursday, to concessions that will fully register and
clearly notify thousands of people that they can vote in November. The ruling by U.S. District
Judge Julie Robinson comes a day before a hearing had been scheduled for Kobach to show
why he should not be held in contempt for allegedly violating her May order. AP Photo/David
Zalubowski

US Drought Monitor Kobach strikes Kansas voter

says drought spreading deal, contempt hearing canceled
across Oklahoma
The deal between Kobach and the
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) The U.S. Drought
Monitor says drought-stricken areas are spreading
across Oklahoma due to lack of rainfall.
The monitor says more than 19 percent of the
state is in moderate drought, including the Tulsa
metropolitan area and parts of northeastern and
southern Oklahoma.
In addition, more than 3 percent of the state is in
severe drought, particularly some eastern and south
central Oklahoma counties.
Another 42 percent of the state is categorized as
particularly dry, including much of the Oklahoma
City metropolitan area.
The drought monitor says the number of
Oklahomans affected by drought is almost 1.2
million, more than double the number at this time
last month.
Rainfall totals varied widely across the state during
the past month, with the far western Panhandle
receiving just 58 percent of normal precipitation.

LOCAL BARGAINS

Celebrates

Authorities say
Hays officer
killed man in
self-defense
HAYS (AP) Authorities have cleared a western
Kansas police officer of wrongdoing in a shooting
death.
Ellis County Attorney Thomas Drees said in a
release Thursday that no crime occurred because
the Hays officer was acting in self-defense when he
fatally shot the 36-year-old man, who wasnt armed.
Drees says the shooting happened August 18 after
police tried to stop a vehicle with an expired license
plate. Drees says the driver sped off as other officers
responded.
He says the suspect eventually stopped, got out of
the car and again ignored police commands. Drees
says the man fled again until an officer caught him
and tried to force him to the ground. He says the
suspect then tried to take the officers gun, and the
officer fatally shot him in the chest.

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American Civil Liberties Union

would allow roughly 20,000 people
who have registered so far without
citizenship documents to cast a
regular ballot, instead of a
provisional one
By ROXANA HEGEMAN
Associated Press
WICHITA Thousands of prospective voters
who did not provide citizenship documents will
be able to cast traditional ballots in the
November election in Kansas, rather than being
forced to use provisional ones, under a deal
brokered Thursday that halted contempt
proceedings against the states top election
official.

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U.S. District Judge Julie Robinson canceled a

contempt hearing scheduled for Friday after
Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach agreed to
concessions that will fully register and clearly
notify people who registered at motor vehicle
offices without providing proof of citizenship
that they can vote. Their names would be listed
as registered on the states website and in
separate poll books kept at election sites.
Robinson on Monday ordered Kobach to
show why he should not be held in contempt for
allegedly violating her May injunction. That
temporary injunction required Kobach to add to
voter rolls people who register when they get
their drivers licenses.
The deal between Kobach and the American
Civil Liberties Union would allow roughly
20,000 people who have registered so far
without citizenship documents to cast a regular
ballot, instead of a provisional one a number
the state expects to grow to 50,000 voters by
election time. The ACLU said the agreement

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WASHINGTON The Army on Thursday named a new

commander at Kansas' Fort Riley to replace an officer fired
three days earlier, just weeks before soldiers from the 1st
Infantry Division deploy to Iraq.
Maj. Gen. Joseph Martin takes the helm of the division on the
17,000-troop base and replaces Maj. Gen. Wayne Grigsby, who
is the subject of an Army investigation and was removed from
command Monday for what the Army cited as a loss of confidence in his ability to lead.
The Army hasn't released details of its investigation involving
Grigsby. A senior Army official, speaking on condition of
anonymity because he was not authorized to discuss the case,
said Monday the probe does not involve other law enforcement
agencies.
Martin, 53, is a 1986 graduate of the U.S. Military Academy
at West Point and most recently commanded the National
Training Center in Fort Irwin, California.
Martin, who deployed to Iraq twice as a commander during
the Iraq war, also has been stationed at Kansas' Fort Leavenworth as deputy commanding general of the Army's Combined
Arms Center-Training, which manages the branch's training

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Kansas sets date

for closing juvenile
correctional facility
TOPEKA (AP) The state plans to close a juvenile correctional facility in western Kansas in March.
The Kansas Department of Corrections earlier this year
announced plans to close the Larned Juvenile Correctional
Facility because of a declining number of youths jailed at the
site. The states juvenile incarceration operations are to be
consolidated at a complex in Topeka.
The department said in a release Thursday that it has set
March 3, 2017, as the Larned facilitys final date of operation.
Secretary of Corrections Joe Norwood says many staff
members are transferring to nearby correctional facilities and
others will work for the Larned State Hospital.
Norwood says juveniles will stay at the Larned facility until
Jan. 23.

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