Marshall, John

A long hard freeze is the hallmark of a proper Kansas winter. Although now in decline, the sharp cold spell remains a measure of...

Kansans have elected a new governor, Laura Kelly, but the shade and soul of the old one ‒ Sam Brownback ‒ remain in Topeka....

The investigations and indictments continue for President Trump’s friends and associates. Some of them are in jail or headed there. On Dec. 20, Defense Secretary...

The best bargaining chip in the great government shut-down impasse is not a border wall. It’s health insurance. So far, it’s unmentioned, but the...

Earlier this month the Lawrence Journal-World closed its Capitol bureau and laid off the paper’s full-time Statehouse reporter, the tenacious Peter Hancock. Hancock is an...

At about 2:25 p.m. on Monday afternoon, Oct. 29, a fire engine roared out of the Lindsborg station at First and Lincoln, heading west,...

An old friend has now been in prison for five years. He has settled in at the minimum-security facility at Oswego, and he’ll be...

Political campaigns are among the more difficult assignments for reporters, a matter of measuring fact against fiction, with a responsibility for telling readers which...

A lot of us codgers are sorely tempted to sing, in a fit of melancholic nostalgia, that we’re glad we’re not young any more. Particularly...

The notorious flag of the Confederacy, yet an idiot’s delight at select political gatherings and some southern football games, acquires new relevance in Kansas...