Flint Hills Cars SALES & SERVICE 785-776-4004 • TOLL FREE 800-257-4004 THE AMERICAN FLAG IS NOT JUST A SYMBOL VOLUME 25, NUMBER 35 An Award Winning Weekly Newspaper Thursday, February 2, 2017 What Is Another Word For Stupid The bridge and intersection at Seth Child and K-18 has only been in for 10-years and the City what to spend million to change it. Editorial By Jon A. Brake the plan was introduced. We Staff of the Cities that put in the The Manhattan Free Press said at the time that a traffic interchange. You will not find has been calling “Round- light would hold up heavy traf- where the drivers are writing abouts”, Stupid round things fic coming from Fort Riley. that is works for me. from the time they were put in But now the City and State Charles Marohn is an engi- Manhattan. want to takeout that stop light neer who is outraged by engi- Now we have the City and and put in Two traffic lights. neers. Marohn runs Strong State wanting to change the But stop lights, traffic lights, Towns, a nonprofit organization Seth Child - K18 interchange queuing is not the problem with in his home state of Minnesota into a “diverging diamond”. this design. that advocates less dependence “Stupid” has already been taken The drivers in the United on the building of new infra- by the roundabout, what will States have been driving on the structure as a model of eco- Manhattan drivers call the di- rights side of the road for more nomic development, and verging diamond. We need to than 130 years, now the City greater focus on getting more come up with a new word. and State want drivers to stop at out of the infrastructure we al- The City and State spent mil- a traffic lights, cross over to the ready have. lions in 2005-06 to put in the left side at the Diverging Dia- “The engineering profession present interchange which has mond, drive about 300 feet, and has devolved,” says Marohn. one stop light at the South end stop at another traffic light and “It’s just, ‘Do I meet the crite- of Seth Child. then crossover to the right lane ria?’ This stuff looks good from In a Memo to City Commis- again. (see photo of the first Di- the air, it looks good on a set of sioners Staff said: “This inter- verging Diamond at Spring- plans. It even looks good when section currently experiences field, Mo.) you drive by. But we’re not ex- undue delay and excessive If you look on the internet for actly building a place here that queuing (backup) for the south- the Diverging Diamond you is going to add any value to so- bound to eastbound left-turn will find where many Cities ciety.” lane.” have used this intersection and It may look good, but is will We know, the Free Press with rave reviews. But the re- be confusing and it will not help made this point in 2005 when views have been written by the move traffic. NewsNews Manhattan Free Press Thursday, February 2, 2017 22 news, first reported by Politico, cision to make a major foreign National School Choice that the administration's re- policy move with no notice to peated claims that Hill Repub- Congress raised questions licans were involved in drafting about how well the Trump the executive order apparently White House will work with referred to staffers on the House Capitol Hill to push through a Judiciary Committee who acted massive legislative agenda that without the knowledge of GOP includes repealing and replac- leadership. ing Barack Obama's health care law, overhauling the tax code Each new revelation set off and building a border wall. Al- alarm bells on Capitol Hill though many Republicans re- where Republicans, eager to mained optimistic that the give Trump the benefit of the failures amounted to growing doubt barely a week into his pains for the new administra- presidency, are confronting re- tion, congressional relations peated bouts of chaos of the ad- under the Trump administra- ministration's own making. The tion seemed to be off to a sour failure to consult with lawmak- start. ers ahead of time on the immi- gration executive order set the "I think they understand, let stage for high-profile Republi- me put it that way, that this was cans to criticize the measure not handled in the most pro- once it started attracting wide- ductive manner," Corker said. spread controversy, and so they "My guess is next time they at- did, despite leadership remain- tempt to do something that is ing generally supportive. far-reaching like this there'll be a lot more communication." 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In fact my staff was migration, arguing that while Muslim-majority nations for 90 conference this is something we told the State Department as of the rollout was bumpy, the pol- days. should be embracing." today was ordered not to talk to icy is consistent with Republi- Congress about this issue," said can principles. The action triggered mass Ryan's reassurances weren't Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida. "The president has a respon- confusion and chaos world- enough to quiet frustration from "That cannot be a permanent sibility to the security of this wide, split families and set off some members. position, we expect answers country," Ryan told reporters. protests at airports across the here fairly soon." "What is happening is some- country. "Basically, I think the thrust Next followed the surprising thing that we support, which is, of the executive order should we need to pause. And we need In the aftermath, Ryan told have been a very positive to make sure the vetting stan- the GOP that the "rollout was a move," said Rep. Pete King, R- dards are up to snuff so that we little bumpy, been a few pot- N.Y. "The way it was handled can guarantee the safety and se- holes in the road but the actual though put the Republicans on curity of our country. That is policy he agreed with," Rep. defense, and also caused great what this does." Phil Roe, R-Tenn., said. inconvenience to too many peo- ple. But the political question "I think it's regrettable that Ryan warned lawmakers to you ask, yeah, they're losing po- there was some confusion on expect protests at their offices, litical capital for no reason. It the rollout of this," Ryan said, Roe said, but reminded them was a self-inflicted wound." adding no one wanted to see that the policy is in line with 2312 Stagg Hill Road, Manhattan legal permanent residents legislation the House has Top congressional leaders of caught up in the immigration strongly backed in the past. Trump's party, including Ryan, ban, which initially happened were left to find out the same before the administration clari- Another lawmaker, Rep. way the general public did: fied that they should not be. Dennis Ross of Florida, said the from news reports as Trump speaker's message was, "'Look signed the order on Friday. Even though GOP congres- this shouldn't be a surprise to sional leadership was frozen out anybody, this is what we all "I guess one of you guys of the drafting of the order, campaigned on ... We're looking probably told me about it. Ryan told rank-and-file Repub- at eight years of a legacy that Thank you for that," Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., who chairs the Foreign Relations Committee, told reporters Monday. For each issue of the Then, as lawmakers strug- Manhattan Free Press look gled to gather details for con- for us on Facebook.