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Marshall, John

Bringing the Schoenhut collectors to Lindsborg

LINDSBORG ‒ When members of the Schoenhut Collectors Club convene on Oct. 12 in Lindsborg for their annual national meeting, Marsha Rolander will be...

A once healthy process, voting has gone sick

I marked my first ballot as an eligible voter 50 years ago in a booth at a fire station in Lawrence, where I was...

Divisions versus our shared hope

The clamor and fun of our annual end-of-summer street dance is no place to discuss politics, especially while selling cotton candy to youngsters who...

Unspoken notions about a new Kansas senator

The top of the Kansas ballot – the contest for governor – will get most of the headlines in the coming election campaign. But...

Prelude to a minority governor

On Thursday, August 23, the State Objections Board put Independent Greg Orman on the November ballot for governor. This decision cleaves the block of...

When Republicans began to shun their own

The Kansas Republican Party is deep again in the cross-currents of self-dispute. Glaring differences separate party moderates and the right wing, and in spite...

Noise versus ideas: Facebook, TV and the bullhorn

Who out there remembers the sound truck at election time? Before Facebook and television became bludgeons of choice in American politics, we had the sound...

The difference between loyalty and obedience

Allegiance is now on the fast track. College football, major league baseball and the NFL are still with us and so are apple pie,...

Getting it fast, vs. getting it right

Officials in Johnson County are in a dither because it took so long to count primary ballots on election day. Too long, they fret,...

Street names, getting from here to there

The other day I was poking about downtown to take the measure and mood of local commerce and test the patience of busy merchants....
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