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JOHN MARSHALL
A lousy system
Spring will bring us tree pollen, ragweed, and presidential primaries. There are remedies at hand for most seasonal allergies but an antidote for these...
Opportunity
Four years ago, students and educators in southwest Kansas began talk of bringing a satellite campus from one of the state's universities to Dodge...
East and West (3)
The state's few metropolitan counties and its vast rural stretches are set apart by contrasting landscapes, divergent lifestyles and disparate cultures. But their people...
The dead zone
Half the world erupts: Gaza in ruin, the Middle East a powder keg. War continues in Ukraine. Haiti, west Africa, Central America and Europe's...
Puritans, all
Labels forever plague and enchant the Kansas political scene. They are often laid on with righteous zeal, but over time the glue can weaken.
When...
A people amendment
When the echoes faded and the dust had settled in Philadelphia in 1787, the United States had a Constitution. From May into mid-September that...
Tuition increases signal a larger problem
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Last month the Kansas Board of Regents increased tuition for the coming school year at the state’s six universities. At KU, the state’s senior...
Republicans, the club for cage fighters
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If we learn anything from the so-called “debates” among Republican candidates for Kansas governor, it’s that the party has tightened its tent.
The staged debates...
Republican a dirty word? America a global profanity?
President Trump continues to amaze.
Only recently he has courted North Korea, played footsie with Russia and blessed China while cursing our neighbors and threatening...
We elect a bigger government, then we forget why
It may seem that government has grown beyond our grasp, but it should be remembered that we have made it that way. We, the...