Will Republicans endorse a Democrat for Governor of Kansas because of Kris Kobach?
The Kobach dilemma: House leader warns GOP centrists against endorsing challengers https://t.co/qCHM2KaEIj
— The Kansas City Star (@KCStar) August 21, 2018
Hineman warned that support for independent candidate Greg Orman or Democratic nominee Sen. Laura Kelly “could well be a career-ending move for anyone who chose to do so.”
“Please do not do it!” Hineman said. “ Your own vote is of course your own. But do not endorse, do not publicly support, do not join a ‘Republicans for..’ group, and do not write a check. Any of those actions are very inappropriate for a Republican office-holder. I fear there would be serious repercussions.”
Farmers say Trump’s trade war mirrors the 1980 Russian grain embargo https://t.co/sZgFOOxdcD pic.twitter.com/zk0SXNzrja
— KCUR (@kcur) August 21, 2018
The crisis pushed Marshal Ulrich from the business. He sold most of his farm equipment in 1985 and worked as a grade school custodian in Kansas for 25 years after that.
“I hated to give it up. It was a dream, you know, to make farming my career, but it just didn’t work out that way,” he said.
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“Once this trade war ends, how do you regain trust? … How do you rebuild the agreements that were thrown away? That’s the difficult issue,” Penner said.
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“The impacts here are not short-term,” he said. “They very likely will be long term, and there’s probably things that may come out of this that we don’t even know and can’t think through right now. And that’s what bothers me.”
Duck boat probe headed to feds. Coast Guard points to possible criminal activity https://t.co/Usj1W3ijYc
— The Kansas City Star (@KCStar) August 21, 2018
Alana Miller, a Coast Guard spokeswoman:
“We identified stuff that could point to some sort of criminal activity,” said “And we are not in the business of criminal investigations.”
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Don Ledford, spokesman for the U.S. Attorney’s office:
“What I can say is that the Department of Justice policy is that we don’t comment on investigations,” Ledford said. “We don’t even confirm or deny the existence of an investigation.”
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It isn’t known what the focus of the criminal investigation is, but there is a federal law regarding negligence or misconduct when operating a vessel.
According to that law: “Every captain, engineer, pilot, or other person employed on any steamboat or vessel, by whose misconduct, negligence, or inattention to his duties on such vessel the life of any person is destroyed … shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both.”
Priest sex abuse victims demand that Missouri and Kansas officials conduct a comprehensive investigation into clergy misconduct and cover-ups similar to the one that revealed widespread problems in Pennsylvania.
Randles said the findings of the Pennsylvania investigation were “shocking” and led her to sit down to try to figure out how many priests in the Kansas City and St. Louis areas had been similarly abusive. She came up with 230 names. But she said only a handful of priests have been charged and one bishop punished.
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