Take One 3 Th u rs d a y, Ja n u ar y 1 0, 2 01 9 Our Twenty Seventh Year of Bring Manhattan Local, State, And National News Justice Ginsburg misses Supreme Court arguments WASHINGTON (AP) — WASHINGTON (AP) — atic cancer. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Weeks after her fall in No - President Donald Trump made is missing arguments for the vember, Ginsburg was ask - a somber televised plea for bor - first time in more than 25 ing questions at high court der wall funding Tuesday night, years as she recuperates from arguments, speaking at a nat - seeking an edge in his shut - cancer surgery last month, uralization ceremony for down battle with congressional the Supreme Court said. new citizens and being inter - Democrats as he declared there viewed at screenings of the is “a humanitarian crisis, a cri - Ginsburg was not on the new movie about her, “On sis of the heart and a crisis of bench as the court met Mon - the Basis of Sex.” the soul.” day to hear arguments. It was Her latest surgery was a Addressing the nation from not clear when she would re - procedure called a pul - turn to the court, which will monary lobectomy at Memo - the Oval Office for the first hear more cases Tuesday and rial Sloan Kettering Cancer time, Trump argued for funding Wednesday, and again next Center in New York. The on security and humanitarian week. court said in a release issued grounds as he sought to put Court spokeswoman the day of the surgery that pressure on newly empowered Kathy Arberg said the 85- doctors found “no evidence Democrats amid an extended year-old justice is continuing of any remaining disease” partial government shutdown. to recuperate and work from and scans taken before the Trump called on Democrats home after doctors removed surgery showed no cancer - to return to the White House to two cancerous growths from ous growths elsewhere in her meet with him, saying it was her left lung on Dec. 21. body. No additional treat - Ginsburg was discharged ment is currently planned, “immoral” for “politicians to do from a New York hospital on the court said. nothing.” Previous meetings Dec. 25. have led to no agreement. Chief Justice John Roberts Appointed by President Responding in their own tel - said in the courtroom Mon - Bill Clinton in 1993, Gins - evised remarks, Democratic day that Ginsburg would par - burg rebuffed suggestions House Speaker Nancy Pelosi ticipate in deciding the from some liberals that she and Senate Minority Leader argued cases “on the basis of should step down in the first Chuck Schumer accused Trump the briefs and transcripts of two years of President of misrepresenting the situation Presedent Donald Trump (White House photo) oral arguments.” Barack Obama’s second on the border as they urged him term, when Democrats con - Ginsburg had two earlier trolled the Senate and would to reopen closed government risks are overblown and the ad - studies over several years have tries to exit a political quagmire cancer surgeries in 1999 and have been likely to confirm departments and turn loose pay - ministration is at least partly to found immigrants are less likely of his own making. For weeks blame for the humanitarian sit - to commit crimes than people he has dug in on a signature 2009 that did not cause her to her successor. checks for hundreds of thou - miss court sessions. She also uation. born in the United States. campaign promise to his base sands of workers. has broken ribs on at least She already has hired Schumer said Trump “just Trump used emotional lan - Trump has been discussing voters, the pledge to build an two occasions. clerks for the term that ex - used the backdrop of the Oval guage, referring to Americans the idea of declaring a national impregnable “beautiful” wall The court said doctors tends into 2020, indicating Office to manufacture a crisis, who were killed by people in emergency to allow him to along the U.S.-Mexico border. found the growths on Gins - she has no plans to retire. stoke fear and divert attention the country illegally, saying: move forward with the wall The partial government shut - burg’s lung when she was from the turmoil in his admin - “I’ve met with dozens of fami - without getting congressional down reached its 18th day, being treated for fractured If she did step down, Pres - istration.” lies whose loved ones were approval for the $5.7 billion making the closure the second- ribs she suffered in a fall at ident Donald Trump would her office on Nov. 7. have another opportunity to Trump, who has long railed stolen by illegal immigration. he’s requested. But he did not longest in history. Hundreds of After past health scares, move a conservative court against illegal immigration at I’ve held the hands of the weep - mention that Tuesday night. thousands of federal workers ing mothers and embraced the With his use of a formal are going without pay, and gov - Ginsburg has come back to even more to the right. On the border, has recently seized work relatively quickly. In the day she had surgery, grief-stricken fathers. So sad. White House speech instead of ernment disruptions are hitting on humanitarian concerns to 2009, she was at the court for Trump tweeted his wishes argue there is a broader crisis So terrible.” his favored Twitter blasts, home with everyday Ameri - arguments on Feb. 23, 18 for Ginsburg’s “full and that can only be solved with a The president often high - Trump embraced the ceremo - cans. days after surgery for pancre - speedy recovery!” wall. But critics say the security lights such incidents, though nial trappings of his office as he FACT #1 helped seize 282,000 pounds number of those members pass legislation that pro - billion to secure our borders creased by 1,700%. In four Customs and Bor - of cocaine, 248,000 pounds were from MS-13. vided $46 billion to build a and protect American citi - der Protection sectors where of methamphetamine, 6,500 physical barrier on the bor - zens. FACT #7 physical barriers have been pounds of heroin, and 2,400 FACT #4 der. The abuse of our weak expanded -- El Paso, Yuma, pounds of fentanyl. The Democrats would FACT #6 asylum laws has rapidly in - Tucson, and San Diego -- il - rather risk the safety of hard- FACT #5 America’s weak asylum creased the backlog of our legal traffic has dropped by FACT #3 working Americans than Nancy Pelosi and her laws allow illegal immi - immigration courts. In fiscal at least 90%. In 2018, over 17,000 work with President Trump hyper-liberal Congressional grants with baseless claims year 2018, these courts had adults arrested at the border to secure our nation’s bor - colleagues just passed a bill to come and stay in the a backlog of more than FACT #2 had prior criminal records. ders. But in 2013, all 54 to give $54 BILLION to for - United States while awaiting 786,000 pending cases. In fiscal year 2018, U.S. This included over 6,000 Senate Democrats, including eign governments, but De - legal proceedings. Since Border Patrol seized or gang members, a major Chuck Schumer, voted to mocrats won’t allow just $5 2010, these claims have in - Briggs Briggs New Cars Used Cars Manhattan Free Press Thursday, January 10, 2019 22 City Commission Special Meeting AGENDA Overlay District, based on the Manufacturing Inc., of Apple- gustine to the Downtown Busi- Office Space For Rent... Reception space and 5 indi- MANHATTAN findings in the Staff Report and ton, Wisconsin, through Conrad ness Improvement District Ad- vidual offices in one of Manhattan’s best business SPECIAL CITY COM- the recommendation of the Fire Equipment, of Olathe, visory Board. area. Utilities average between $80 and $90 a month. MISSION MEETING Manhattan Urban Area Plan- Kansas, for the direct purchase 227 Southwind Place. TUESDAY, JANUARY 8, ning Board Planning Board. of a Pierce PUC Velocity Quint VI. PUBLIC HEARING Office -785-363-2222 Cell - 785-562-6836 2019 E. Approve Ordinance No. in the amount of $1,094,876.05, A. KIMBALL TOWN - 7:00 P.M. 7395 amending Chapter 23 of utilizing the H-GAC buying HOMES AND FOUR WINDS The City Commission Meet- the Code of Ordinances by re- program; and VILLAGE TRANSPORTA - ing will be televised live on pealing Article III regarding 4. Approve the first reading TION DEVELOPMENT DIS- local Cox Cable Channel 3, on Public Use of the Memorial Au- of an ordinance authorizing the TRICTS the City’s website at http://city- ditorium and Community Mayor and/or the City Clerk to 1. Conduct public hearings; ofmhk.com/tv, and Building. enter into a lease purchase 2. Find the creation of the also on Facebook at F. Approve Ordinance No. agreement with Clayton Hold- Kimball Townhomes Trans - https://www.facebook.com/City 7396 amending Chapter 9 of the ings, LLC, for the purpose of portation Development District ofmanhattan. Code of Ordinances relating to acquiring the quint. (TDD) and the Four Winds Vil- the fees for the City-owned and K. Easement for New Kansas lage TDD advisable, and II. PROCLAMATION operated cemeteries. Department of Agriculture Lab: 3. Approve first readings of A. January 19-21, 2019, Dr. G. Authorize the Mayor and 1. Authorize the Mayor and Ordinances establishing the Martin Luther King, Jr. Com- City Clerk to execute an Agree- City Clerk to execute the Con- Kimball Townhomes TDD and munity Celebration and Days of ment for Construction of Public sent to the Temporary Con- the Four Winds Village TDD.