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the former governor has publicly indicated he is interested in the ninety nine the governor's race but he says campaigns are two long as it is and if he decides to run he will not make a formal announcement to run until may so servicing process or customer orders rotary what caught checking with friends and supporters for talking to contacts new context that don't want to go to the states won't last a sense of support from an organizational port of you know until paul and talking to people in terms of the issues that it is literature all of that coming together to make a political decision cullen says for the pre process to studying campaign is deciding well if you just before the state was bitter

thank you oh jesus are some of the big issues facing kansas today economic development and education were also facing kansas under the leadership of john carlin he realizes he says that he may have to remind kansans that he helped lay the groundwork for economic development and education issues or will you remember people get into very old

and it was sold so it really is besides being remembered for some of the positive things during his tenure carlin realizes that some western kansas may find a negative memory and a severance tax on oil in

having an opportunity to provide leadership and again from those experiences vary gelb yes there are people out there who disagree with it but it was the right to disagree or anything that's of any significance is going to use it and somebody is going to be on the site that does not prevail i'd knowledge that i also have to believe that the same time that campaigns are basically a very open type people agree with the road thank you

and you are us is it safe to assume that some western kansas voters may be hard to win where your strengths to support well sure what we are worth congressman dan glickman engine slattery deciding not to challenge taking some democrats are betting on carbon as their stronghold but karlan downplays party loyalty as the number one factor in his

decision people are more and more or more or can you a generation or immigration as regular order

oh wow all right karlan who's on his third marriage says his personal life and having it scrutinized by the public is and what concerns him most about starting a new campaign but i do enjoy it oh oh but why they would be

appropriate former governor john connally and somehow he will be a contender in the ninety nine the gubernatorial race but he vows he'll not decide and announce his decision in some way in hutchinson i'm nancy finken as the result of tougher laws on drunk driving and public outcry the bar industry is seeing a change and drinking habits a change that's forcing businesses in the liquor business to rethink their strategies that entirely partlow is an instructor in case dates hotel and restaurant management program it does mm hmm

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partlow says students are educated about third party liability meaning in some states not here in kansas bar owners can be held legally liable for customers to leave their bar drunk and subsequently get involved in an accident or the systems are taught how to guard against serving a person who has had too much we agree well done this is

thank you and political organization they did well again you know

our clothes as being conscious of how much your customers drink is only one example of how bars of changed in the recent past and something that's going to continue to change in that oh really oh wow thank you

for years people only about the wall of billable of the body are going to be known as the operator where the barlow says the challenge for bar owners is to serve more people the same amount of alcohol and statistics show people are drinking less in bars and it's going to take more people are drinking less to make up the profit margin in hutchinson i'm nancy finken former white house photographer pete souza was today's dylan lecturer at a sports arena in hutchinson prior to his five and a half years photographing president reagan sousa was a staff photographer

for the shoe new tribune and the hutchinson news at a press conference this morning susan talked about the switch from being a news photographer to a white house photographer going a journalism school in yuma working for newspapers and suddenly be cast on the inside and see how i look at things so maybe it's barrett is a question by tony what they thought of the press and the royal reagan i several times i heard i heard him say to his aides says that she'd much prefer doing the regional press conferences where you know a group of reporters from the midwest or the west coast or whatever would be brought in for lunch and they would have the opportunity question him as opposed to the washington media and his response was they want answers to questions where's was nebraska press corps trying to catch me saying something that i don't really mean that

that sort of comes out of my mouth as is probably true in a certain sense i guess since watergate has become this mentality of okay this guy's doing something wrong we don't find out what it is where sick he felt that the regional reporters and broadcasters were really want to know answers to questions susan says he was one of four white house photographers we had free reign to take pictures certainly as to what happened with the foie gras after we took that was that you know in an art control that was up to you know someone else our job was to document the presidency and i mean i think that the fact that we are a separate entity from the press office was very important because otherwise if you're part of the press office you become sort of i was a public relations

to all you could could be coming out whereas we were somewhat off in our own little world where we will work for the press office well people think we did it really didn't want its water is based in paris and the us about us and pictures after taking in terms of time is what we can can do they have anything as we heard this rumor we are under the chief of staff and we had like one layer above that that we had to serve report to but in reality it is did we just did our thing and i mean i think the entire time is at the white house as the staff we met with the chief of staff was that was it and so we really did our own thing which i think was a good good way to approach it sousa had security clearance to go nearly everywhere with the president sometimes it was to international summits sometimes to private

dinners and one private dinner in particular spark some attention from a great britain tabloid that tried to persuade susan to sell some of his private photos there was a state dinner with the prince charles m and i am a consistent as it was a mistake it was private and you know i myself i'm mary anne fadiman well below what the stars we cover that and after the dinners custom where you have like fire ten minutes of dancing were the president insisted mrs reagan you know some notables that as well unless they're turning to kind of a free for all and i had started dancing with john travolta who is a guest at the dinner i was like astounding to me that this was going on and i was photographing and then the next morning i got a call from some guy representing one of the london

papers asked me if i had pictures of diana dancing with travolta and i think most of the women that i'm not going to be the ones when confronted this happened about one size it why don't you talk about it and he goes well the washington post has more in this story about john travolta dance in princess diana for ok well i can say that as amalia have pictures i said but you know you like to call the press secretary as to when you can get them and they said well make it worthwhile to take a year off i'm from work from your job if he gets his pictures the spray painting but there was a throwaway a career for you know one picture him you know four thousand dollars or scissor spent over five years taking pictures of ronald reagan he admits sometimes shooting the same person each and every day got a little old and their momentous occasions the long be remembered to susan's work and in his own

memories for instance reykjavik and eighty six i think it was the certified by midsummer i mean you know usually these things a plan that way advance and blue haired his own two weeks notice we're going in iceland to meet with gorbachev and i guess i'm in a situation where a moment for the situation being the summer breaks up after the second day and i'm standing outside the door or use meeting mikhail gorbachev and the door opens up and i see the look on their faces and i've never seen that look on his face before the man was annual bill uses and radio command was pissed off he was really pissed of we had a look on his face and i'd never really seen it before it and that's something they'll never forget

and error howard baker hour about what really makes the president's blood boil and i said to hazard center as initiative in reykjavik causes blood was really roiling that money is just the allies have ever saw him where is god was really boiling and you know identified cash and then photographs component of something that was something i could be captured as units were things that that i remember you know and conversely when they came to washington and those patients slideshow of them walking away from her house in reykjavik and he's got that look on his face as those discouraged and i walk into the limousine hugo which is like you know these guys never touched water again and then less than a year later i have this picture of them walking along a south florida one thousand a smiling waving those credits

outside the gate pete souza discussing his career as a white house photographer for over five years under president reagan is now freelancing trying to break into the magazine industry in hutchinson i'm nancy finken what's been the mood in your opinion panama that led up to yesterday's coup attempt or leave whoa whoa whoa whoa you're going to continue to all this warming up the homeownership horse which he met the young men who decided to revolt against

them have been forced to resign before <unk> have heard of animosity that labor will rule yesterday the reports that i heard erik are similar about military promotions be some of the cars for this coup attempt could be that simple anything that there may have been other reasons i think that one song i think that one of things that have been forged a lot of good money coming into animals i know well modern word about the recent events have called it would be disruptive that were partially so molly was not fully to understand the people who were not getting

the money will begin to wonder when it was taken it offered a soulful got a little bit greedy so that might have contributed the climate this a leisure grocers of oakland are being cut out of the resources aligned had decided that they would take some protection so widespread you'd think noriega has to said drug ring in panama because it's not just his top officials and self taking some of the money you think it's it's filtering on down the line are you going to leave the word <unk> panel of six months ago that we have to look at the situation come on the defense force and that they had at that time they told me that they value the noriega was overthrown that people might come in behind the way because of corruption repression says noriega wants and so they weren't sure what would happen if a military coup de cur so

this funding for the united states to hear that noriega may not just be where he is just the tip of the iceberg i think you have to realize is now to help people in southern command in the state department and the malcolm in a park official in each one of these real was the noriega was just the tip of the iceberg and that the drug traffic was so lucrative so profitable probably means it'll be very difficult for the other officers in the pdf disengage and so and so well there might be some have a rapprochement were going to military leader withdrew possible civilian government i think you'd be on long trips mario is not going to be very optimistic what are the us options not just about this so i could tend or any further once but to break this cycle that

could continue even if noriega isn't it howard does the us so much power over it i think you know senator began to realize that there are limitations on that power i think we're going to really see any significant debate within the united states itself about what actions united states ought to take him yesterday i'm not sure that the whole story has been call some people are going to be convinced that if the united states had been willing to commit his power yesterday the complete of the rebels but we want to be about the removal of noriega and of course ultimately as the noriega and be even stronger than before because the people who would likely to revolve now been revealed and appalling to remove from the state and it's something that we know is already happening people in washington democrats and republicans are saying that maybe the us should have taken a more active involvement in yesterday's action where you think when a president bush's mind and

considering the pros and cons of being more active in yesterday's coup attempt gold toilet on the one hand i think that you would have liked to avert an hour i think he would've liked to have it all possible because it over with some modification that the crew was really good point hope they're right will have been home possibility of un ho call operational but i think that president bush well actually probably implicitly promised that the united states was not going to act unilaterally that we were not going to intervene militarily song wantin it does appear like the opportunity and what would have been the collateral losses in terms of us friendship us collaboration of atmosphere in terms of other problems

if we haven't read directly so one intervention or i guess the action by the us has been economic sanctions and having more troops in panama correct right when we oh please oh you have a dollar we complain or did you what we didn't realize was just how noriega woes we didn't realize that so much willie nelson he had to make the panamanians suffering suffering the panamanian want were suffering and so apparently to some degree no longer appears to be a conflict between the state of noriega's a conflict between you know this

state and the panamanians and their standard of living also i do think the us position has not granted they didn't supposedly have anything to do with the coup attempt yesterday and they're continuing on the same course how do you think we can continue to do as you say kind of aim at the panamanian people even if we're not trying to guess what the result is a new thing that president bush and congress will continue on this path are we at a turning point maybe unless you have a turning point a lot of things with settlers might provide what the reports of the crew was that probably noriega feels weak true that if you walk through the course have a great deal of domestic dissent and the country is that us opposition is helping other latin american countries and european countries reading lol is more vulnerable he'd ever been before and that this

might lead to his removal of that show that in fact come out stronger as a result of the fact that they have identified potential other senators i think we got another period of crisis coming up in the next few months that progress is going to be when the panama canal i'm supposed to be taken over and directed by the panamanian or by a panamanian and i'm not sure the moment convinced demands that will not accept a panamanian director of the panama canal appointed by noriega so what we're going to see is so there's a way to work out a relationship so the canal could keep running but not direct control of what noriega's people dr james mcginty is an associate professor in the department of political science at wichita state in hutchinson i'm nancy finken after cannes is rated near the bottom nationally in the area of mental

health services governor mike hayden appointed a task force to study the state's system and come up with recommendations to make the programs work better last week the taskforce renewed its suggestion that kansas overhaul its plans for treating the mentally ill the recent report calls for more money at the community level to the tune of five point two million dollars in addition the report asks for a million and a half more to spend for community centers screening services and it calls for increased spending about two point four million dollars each year to hire over two hundred more caseworkers the report also suggests the legislature created a cabinet level secretary to handle mental health and mental retardation services that are many me is the director of mental health and retardation services for as cyrus is the vice chairman of the governor's taskforce on mental health women can do they can go into court and at

hand it is providing him at the comedian oh one of the oh man lee says the majority of the money spent on mental health in kansas it goes to the state hospitals and that money seems to be paying off because lee says the committee's findings indicate the most improvement needs to be at the community level well i've been wanting a word more about eighty percent of the time and one accredited by the nationally

payment really came home when a kid came on whole government home he manipulate people in an adequate and the reasons the problems exist at the local level ie says has to do with a lack of resources you know for many years before quote have not been the player of the interviews with an independent when comedic manhattan is with covenant they and the wake of the important people on to the many for help he'd like to help the hindu women in it yet because they have to reach out that kevin ollie program people felt

he would not then ended it veto it and then thinking that were but the bottom line is that the advantage do i need by resources a timeout dollars on here a tank not qualified skilled personnel you know in the local community from the more effective paid they really do not have enough qualified people that i know that but more importantly he did in general leaf says the committee looks

for inadequacies that result and services not been provided to kansans who really need help a number on and not have adequate number two and in between so is your task force made recommendations to change some of the problems within the system and well recommended in and approval from the governor and later for example recommended a european

management program would you do you want to be be they're going to make sure that not bad and they're the ones who make sure that david greene of connecticut a client and there go the one who will provide to that coalition well john timoney is the director of mental health and retardation services for sri as he is the vice chairman of the governor's taskforce on mental health in summary the

recent suggestions from the taskforce include a five point two million dollars boost for the community level of retardation a mental health services in addition the report asks for a million and a half more to spend for community centers screen services and it calls for about two point four million dollars more to hire over two hundred more caseworkers in hutchinson i'm nancy finken what in the past has few supported the administration stand on supplying money to el salvador oh yeah it was a week have to reach kind of a middle of the road proposal that is with the right and the left killing each other not look to me like the government to do art it was about the only we would get the medal to win and that strategy worked they will not be working anything is not working out i think that the fact the matter of the

work they were committed to human rights and was trying to leave the country and the military into a moral freedom oriented it but a government running out of algorithm or right government on the right and the additional action as well so now you're thinking maybe it's time to rethink united states' position on the un at mit but i also think it's time for the us to see if we can get the soviet union to reassess its commitment of zacarias well i think that the soviets and has provided some aid into the rubble and also toured it would be nice if we could get some sort of joint approach to stop all military aid to both the government as well as the rebels how likely do you think that this even now maybe is a good time to strike such a deal because of the seemingly good relation between the two countries for us in the so

we had to get together on a lot of issues including the nicaraguan el salvador we can try to remove the east west the nature of those conflicts that doesn't mean the complex will and that it will take a lot of the sting out of them how do we figure out in the murder case only on that task force to investigate how about figuring out who's to blame we'll meeting about a week and objectively look at and now i know this isn't the first arm politically motivated murder if this one was indeed that way and why is this one getting more attention because this is a priest i think the facts there were six priests killed and given the catholic church's

involvement in el salvador has highlighted these particular murders you know nobody should be killed every kind of a conflict but would you kill noncombatants who all have to be pretty big get the world's attention very that why you personally interested in el salvador i been down there twice then i am on the intelligence committee and given that i put the speaker know that i'm interested in trying to see democracy for each character so many years ago you know ten thousand people getting killed in el salvador a lot of commerce there's a there's delivered strong possibility that we can allow a government to come into effect there is interest in human rights and liberties not like to see that happen we didn't abandon your future will be kansas congressman dan glickman is one of the

members of the congressional task force investigating murder of six priests in el salvador in hutchinson i'm nancy finken that will guide entire group of taxpayers who have protection to double or triple minimum that we adopted three years ago we need to go in with us state senator eric yost is from wichita he's a republican and the senate vice president he says he plans to propose a constitutional amendment to get rid of classification during next year's legislature eight cap on property taxes the moral one adopted in california will have to pay more than about one a half percent of their total violation in taxes

a more than seven hundred dollars you're going to do yost says by doing this it's a more equitable system what i really think that we need bigger wave at a much higher rate than one hundred a pain but you know i think we need to look forward politically and in a sense yes well to make up a lot of revenue from reduced property taxes local official do it through actually we belong to get away

when in time when bisbee if we went to the attacks led as you're suggesting it's quite understand that if we adopt that this one percent cap on property taxes that the overall corporate tax in the state would be reduced by about twenty five percent and that could be made up through insuring revenue in my opinion twenty five percent of the state property taxes would figure to be about four hundred million dollars and then it would have to be made up by local governments the many budget cuts or other kinds of taxes do we need to be usually that we read yost realizes it's going to be a hard battle to get classification

changed especially sensitive so long to get it on the ballot last time around john pollock painting we made a mistake senator eric yost is a winston republican and senate vice president he says he plans to propose a constitutional amendment repealing classification during next year's legislature in hutchinson i'm nancy finken fb some say special legislative sessions are doomed from the start due to limited time and high expectations this weekend special session in topeka certainly had both

ingredients with a lot of pressure from constituents mixed in as well the house was first to act on the biggest controversy whether or not to come up with a circuit breaker for commercial property owners and what some legislators in both chambers call a hasty move the house passed a ninety three million dollar relief bill for mostly commercial property owners on a sixty four to sixty one vote friday the house approved the package and sent it to the senate so what happens now with the center for the most part was angered the house passed such a huge measure so quickly senator dave koenig hutchinson is one who resents the senate's action action he says it makes the senate look bad for voting against the package the house of representatives detail syria's so called circuit breaker for oil it would've cost a total of ninety three million dollars that was an action that was taken hastily actually i believe in panic and that a major portion of that money would have been

simply wasted it would've been distributed in such a way that would not have gone to people who were truly in need of tax relief would have shifted and much of the money to areas that have been the most severely under praised in the past what johnson county where they have been giving their their commercial properties at a tax rate for a long time there for their increased percentage increase is higher than it is most other places there for the money within drawn to those parts of the state that probably needed at the least so even if we had our own printing presses today as a source of money and had not had to sacrifice a great deal to come up with that money it certainly would have voted against that house bill but then when you add to that they absolutely destructive ill thought out a method that they used to put the money together it was it was easily the worst piece of legislation that i have seen in my five years the

legislature it was absolutely destructive and in the senate we have yeah in a bipartisan way this was not by any means the republicans putting down the issue them into a republican majority republicans and democrats alike in the senate took a look at that legislation that the house had drafted and simply universally condemned it as a political ploy an attempt to make the senate look bad by having to kill what was was purportedly cut tax relief it was not it was a mass representative mike o'neill also from hutchinson agrees with her now why sixty four representatives voted for that particular plan is a little bit hard to understand some of the politically motivated probably tuned in embarrassed the governor and some of the very genuine you know a sincere belief

on for a summit that is what is needed and frankly some were voting on it because they didn't have the courage to raise taxes for a highway program but once those taxes were raised and they decide that they would like to spend it in another way and so combination of factors added up to sixty four votes i talked with a number of representatives after that but who would have had been an ask changed the road because they realized frequently that that was not a good thing some voted for because they knew the senate wouldn't vote for and that waiting to go home say well one i voted for in some proper tax relief when they knew darn well at that package was never gonna pass and so a lot of games for me and plate and blow against the plague or a special session about five you know the individuals that voted for that particular package voted to take our money away from our s or s they voted to take money away from the main street program the kansas arts commission wildlife and

parks and so conservation they voted to take almost a million dollars away from informal clean up they took point five million dollars from a highway plan in history and in the loss of interest and the interest that we would play on on and issue bonds earlier the total a long term losses about forty eight million dollars it was just the most irresponsible piece of legislation i've seen in a long time so with a circuit breaker failing the biggest news from the special session is that the due dates for the first part of the property taxes have been changed to january sixteenth only one quarter of the taxes due at this time with another quarter due in march and the final half due in june also by moving that date to january sixteen taxpayers have more time to pay under protest and have their valuations re figured and the legislature has given local units of government the chance to reopen and possibly lower their budgets senator kirk and representative only on both agree that much of the inflated tax bills property owners are seeing is due to creative budgeting at

the local level the freeze on local budgets the legislature voted for three years ago had loopholes loopholes some local governments took advantage of in addition sen kerry says the appeals process with more time now to look at the evaluation should correct incorrect valuations he's very critical of the property valuation department and the people who assessed property but i asked why did the state leaders see the problem coming and correct the problem before it got this large other good question answered i think to some extent the legislature should serve kept a closer watch on the division of proper evaluation and they do it because they were setting a lot of the rules and while we had a few complaints from a local units of government for counties who are saying that we're not being allowed to use the methods that would be more fair we get a lot of complaints and consequently probably didn't watch them as closely as we should it because i think that to a large extent local incident were discouraged from using

income at that instead of encouraged to use it and the other big problem was that the contractors that were hired by the county's some of them were simply a lazy trying to make the most money in the highest degree profit out of the money they were receiving for doing this work that easy way that was to measure a property and to get into the computer that's what they did because they make more money doing that an effect on the work to put together an income analysis or a comparable sales analysis so for business owners who want their values really figured curse as a simplified explanation of the income method of valuing the commercial property is being drawn up and should soon be in the hands of local appraisers to assist business owners as for more money in the form of circuit breakers issue will again be discussed in january for people with questions about deadlines and the appeal process local government offices like the treasure should be contacted or the state property valuation apartment in addition to both

senator kirk and representative o'neill encourage constituents to attend the local boards of government meetings to find out whether or not those local units maybe go maj gen are companies taking advantage of kansans who may be concerned with drinking water contamination duffy with the kansas water office says home water treatment is an arrow his office a study to find out whether or not the state needs to help consumers got against consumer fraud that he says the definition of home water treatment says quite broad and in animation and just how accurate ohio how well do these systems work as

it really do what it promises to do that's right it duffy says his department has not been able to go out and recheck water where treatment of isis have either been recommended to be used or have already been used and something he hopes to start doing in the meantime duffy says his information is coming from another state office we are

illegal there is an organization or company or an individual are going on nw you like and regulation it really at a time when kansans are more concerned than more aware than ever before about the importance of being environmentally safe duffy says sometimes that need for security can blind eye ability to be good consumers

or what it duffey explains a study by the state to look at just how many people who have wells are

their own water supply would actually need to be concerned about a home water treatment system the nomination you know that would indicate that the high end as much as twenty percent of the world have a level of contamination that might not be there that's right to

the nation that he says the issue of state regulations on the home treatment system business is still under study and will probably be an understudy for quite a while yet we will the recommendation sounds like a big job to take on that kind of responsibility for the water officer whatever state entity would happen to get that job if it goes through all right

the public and the public does he says consumers who are worried about potential contaminants in their wells should have tests run on the water independently not through a company trying to sell home water treatments thank you but

clint dempsey is with the kansas water office in hutchinson i'm nancy finken