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I 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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The Kansas Legislature returned for session the last week of April. The key item was to finalize the budget as well as finish up some policy initiatives and consider whether to override vetoes from the governor.
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Like so many who had served in the terrible Civil War, Warren Young Jenkins returned to Illinois from the Civil War in 1864, and “went to housekeeping” with his new bride, Sarah V. (Boone). Together they worked rough timbered land with stumps and sprouts that “worried and disgusted” Jenkins to such a degree that he determined to move to the promised land of Kansas.
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In 1890 an article originally published in the South San Francisco Examiner was making the rounds of Kansas newspapers.
Read moreHe thanked the Ellsworth County Independent-Reporter for catching an important omission in a recent Ellsworth County Resolution issuing a countywide burn ban.
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