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Editor’s note: Mark Inman Seitz worked for the Ellsworth County Independent-Reporter for many years. He was a journalist, sports writer and all round funny guy. He passed away May 12, 2022. In memory, the I-R is republishing excerpts of the popular HindSeitz columns, originally published in the I-R in 2007.
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In the fall of 1862 the U.S. fleet operated relatively unopposed in the Confederate-held territory on the Mississippi River, and the river’s larger tributaries. In response, Confederate Major General Theophiles H. Holmes, commander of the Department of the Trans-Mississippi, ordered the construction of fortifications at Arkansas Post near the confluence of the Arkansas and White Rivers. Arkansas Post had been a seat of commerce since being established for frontier trade by the French in 1686. Designated Fort Hindman, the installation suffered humiliating defeat when under heavy bombardment. Nearly a third of Confederate troops serving in Arkansas were captured when the post was surrendered on Jan. 11, 1863.
Read moreThe Kansas Legislature shields itself from public scrutiny through secrecy, confusing shell games and silenced opposition.
Read moreThe analysis elsewhere on this page from Sherman Smith and the Kansas Reflector is a much longer story than we had space to print. However, the long version can be found on the Ellsworth County Independent-Reporter website at www.indyrepnews.com or on the Reflector site at kansasreflector. com/2022/05/08/analysis-how-the-kansas-legislatureavoids-public-scrutiny-by-hiding-in-darkness/?fbclid=Iw AR3yDyQ8QHYS2BFavg5TcFWvW6vUXJHpFP6Ec-3LW7g-KFmtsNo8Pp_IM0o
Read moreI offer a point of consideration for proponents of antiabortion laws. Do you agree that men have a role in the pregnancy of women? Of course, you do. Given that truth, if women are forced to carry the burden of birth, what burden should the father be forced to carry? Based on what I have read, the anti-abortion laws place no burden at all on the father. The burden falls entirely on the mother, to the point of indictment, conviction, and imprisonment should she decide to have an abortion. Seems just a tiny bit one-sided, don’t you agree?
Read moreIn the April 21 edition of the Ellsworth County Independent-Reporter, we published a cartoon that prompted an outcry from Wilson residents and several e-mails. The subject of the editorial cartoon was the decision earlier this month by the Central Plains School District to consolidate grades 7-12 at Claflin, leaving Wilson with only elementary grades.
Read moreSince 1984, the first full week of May has been known as Teacher Appreciation Week. Since then — and rightfully so — the staff who support our teachers and students have been included. We would propose that appreciation come not just during one week in the spring, but year-round, and that it should extend to all those who work in Kansas public schools.
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