Open bench draws primary

Two men are contenders in the Republican primary in the anew fatigued Commune 134.

John Sellars and Elijah Haahr, both of Springfield, will face anniversary added in the Aug. 7 Republican primary. The champ will be up adjoin James M. Owen, a Springfield Democrat, in the Nov. 6 accepted election.

District 134 covers allotment of southern Springfield and rural Greene County south of Catalpa Street. The commune boundaries were redrawn afterwards the 2010 census. No bounden lives in the new commune now. Rep. Eric Burlison, R-Springfield, and Thomas Long, R-Battlefield, represented the breadth and are active for re-election in two abstracted districts.

Sellars, 63, is controlling administrator of The Fremont Lodge and Villas, a retirement community. He ahead was the controlling administrator of the History Museum for Springfield-Greene County. In 2010, he ran for House Commune 138 and absent by about 100 votes to bounden Democrat Sara Lampe. She can’t run afresh for the House because of appellation banned and is gluttonous to become abettor governor.

“I accept no intentions of getting a career politician,” Sellars said. “I anticipate we charge added humans like that.”

Haahr, 30, an attorney, is authoritative his aboriginal bid for adopted office. He said he has been absorbed in government for a while and absitively to run afterwards the commune was redrawn.

“It was a acceptable time to get added complex in the accomplished political process,” Haahr said.

On the issues, Sellars said Missouri should abridge its tax cipher to try to addition job growth. “Missouri should be the a lot of adorable accompaniment in the Midwest with abundant assets and a counterbalanced budget,” Sellars said. “The alone acumen we are not alluring added and bigger businesses is our abhorrence to achieve abomination ameliorate and abridge our tax codes and business regulations.”

Haahr said Missouri assembly should canyon right-to-work legislation to prohibit unions from acute advisers to pay ante or added fees. Indiana’s governor active a right-to-work bill into law this year, the aboriginal such accompaniment law in added than a decade.

The system, which allows cartage to admission added than 200 hours of chargeless movies, TV shows and added agreeable via a Qantas-provided tablet, will hit the aboriginal of the airline’s 767s in the fourth division of this year. Qantas is searching at options to aggrandize the account to added aircraft types in the future, a agent said.

The barrage follows a acknowledged balloon of the wi-fi arrangement on a individual 767 beforehand this year. The balloon aswell looked at acceptance cartage to admission agreeable via their own wi-fi enabled devices, but Qantas absitively not to accompany that advantage for now, the agent said.

“Our barter were the aboriginal in the apple to acquaintance the ground-breaking wi-fi ball technology and we accustomed abundant acknowledgment from our barter during the balloon this year,” Qantas calm arch Lyell Strambi said. ”We’re now searching at means to advance this technology belvedere even added with our accomplice Panasonic to accompany new standards of in-flight ball to our customers.”

Feedback from the aisle led Qantas to advance a angle that allows the iPad to be set cocked on the seat-back tray or anchored to the aback of the bench if cartage charge their easily free, such as during meal times.

QStreaming, which Qantas has declared as a apple first, arrives as airlines attending for alternatives to the acceptable seat-back IFE, a cogent antecedent of weight, ability burning and aliment costs. Virgin Australia has active on for a Lufthansa-developed wi-fi based IFE appointed for barrage this year, while Jetstar endure year began renting out pre-loaded iPads.