Ned Seaton

Topeka

Publisher, Editor-in-Chief at The Manhattan Mercury

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FROM THE PUBLISHER | Easter, Passover, and faith in overcoming

1 week ago | themercury.com | Ned Seaton

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OPINION: Easter, Passover, and faith in overcoming

1 week ago | kansas.com | Ned Seaton

I've been thinking about Passover a little bit lately, and of course Easter is Sunday. Substantially different holidays, but with one thing in common: The notion of overcoming. I think that's pretty telling. Passover is the Jewish celebration of the exodus of the Jews from slavery in Egypt. Easter is the Christian celebration of the resurrection of Jesus from the dead. They're both a little (actually a lot) fantastical, relying on the supernatural to intervene in earthly events.
OPINION: The dismal but necessary path forward for ‘college’ sports

1 week ago | kansas.com | Ned Seaton

I've reached a conclusion I never thought I would reach: It's time to consider "college" athletes as paid employees. I wish this were not the case. It feels wrong, or at least warped. But it's the only path forward that I can see that fixes the slow-motion train wreck that we're witnessing at this very moment. Lawsuits have blocked other paths, and continuing on the one we're on will mean the ruin of the entire enterprise.
FROM THE PUBLISHER | The monsters among us

1 week ago | themercury.com | Ned Seaton

Thirty years ago, a couple of Fort Riley guys – men who had lived and worked among us, right here in Manhattan – blew up the federal building in Oklahoma City. They killed 168 people. The bomb they detonated was made in part from fertilizer they bought at a farm-supply store here. Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols – the two guys who met here and concocted the scheme – also poked around here for racing fuel as another component of the bomb.
FROM THE PUBLISHER | Tip of the cap to Sydney Carlin

1 week ago | themercury.com | Ned Seaton

Turnabout is not only fair. It’s commendable. Sydney Carlin, who represents part of Manhattan in the state Legislature, switched sides in a key vote last week. In doing so, she ditched her own party to join Republicans to override a governor’s veto. She did it because that meant saving state financial support for a veterinary diagnostic lab at K-State. She was one of five legislators who switched their votes so as to override Gov. Laura Kelly. Like Carlin, Gov. Kelly is a Democrat.
OPINION: The monsters among us

1 week ago | kansas.com | Ned Seaton

Thirty years ago, a couple of Fort Riley guys - men who had lived and worked among us, right here in Manhattan - blew up the federal building in Oklahoma City. They killed 168 people. The bomb they detonated was made in part from fertilizer they bought at a farm-supply store here. Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols - the two guys who met here and concocted the scheme - also poked around here for racing fuel as another component of the bomb.
OPINION: Tip of the cap to Sydney Carlin

1 week ago | kansas.com | Ned Seaton

Turnabout is not only fair. It's commendable. Sydney Carlin, who represents part of Manhattan in the state Legislature, switched sides in a key vote last week. In doing so, she ditched her own party to join Republicans to override a governor's veto. She did it because that meant saving state financial support for a veterinary diagnostic lab at K-State. She was one of five legislators who switched their votes so as to override Gov. Laura Kelly. Like Carlin, Gov. Kelly is a Democrat.
FROM THE PUBLISHER | If you were REAL journalists, you'd....

1 week ago | olathereporter.com | Ned Seaton

I got a message the other day from a person who was trying to get us to do a story. Her approach was something I’ve seen many times over the years, basically going like this:If you guys are real journalists, you’ll look into…whatever. Or this one: Hey, do you do investigative journalism? To which, of course, there’s only one acceptable answer. But then the next step is: Well, there’s a Pulitzer Prize in it if you dig up… whatever else.
OPINION: Congo, Mr. Brannan, and the value of failure

1 week ago | kansas.com | Ned Seaton

I've been told recently that I write too many columns about tennis. I've also heard I write too many about K-State sports. And of course I hear that I write too many liberal ones - which proves I'm in cahoots with the left - and also too many conservative ones, which proves that I'm in the bag for the right. Anyway, fine. I think the tennis critic suggested more columns about cross country, which I suppose I can do.
FROM THE PUBLISHER | One benefit of preposterous conference alignments

1 week ago | themercury.com | Ned Seaton

I drove up to Lincoln this past weekend to watch some college tennis. My buddy’s daughter plays for UCLA; this was as close as she’ll get. Great time, all the way around. The Bruins were playing in Lincoln because both UCLA and Nebraska are in the Big 10 Conference. UCLA flew from LA to Iowa City for a midweek match against Iowa, then rode a bus to Lincoln for a noon gig Saturday. They then got on a flight through Denver back to LA Saturday evening.