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John Marshall
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John Marshall is the retired editor-owner of the Lindsborg (Kan.) News-Record (2001-2012), and for 27 years (1970-1997) was a reporter, editor and publisher for publications of the Hutchinson-based Harris Newspaper Group. He has been writing about Kansas people, government and culture for more than 40 years, and currently writes a column for the News-Record and The Rural Messenger. He lives in Lindsborg with his wife, Rebecca, and their 21 year-old African-Grey parrot, Themis.
Promise and the arts
LINDSBORG – As we climb out of winter's dormant glaze, a look about our town will present moments that elevate the spirit: The little...
A rural-urban wedding?
Of Kansas' four congressional districts, the First has long been the largest – now with 69 counties covering roughly the western two-thirds of the...
Measuring our poison
The mother of Alberta Clippers blew over middle America last month with sub-zero cold and double-digit wind chills, icing the Dakotas, then Kansas, and...
The ghosts of Harry Lime
A half-dozen or more Covid-19 vaccines are now at work in the global battle against the pandemic. From the United States there are Pfizer,...
What once was, no more
Ken Burns's "Jazz", a 10-part, 19-hour documentary, was broadcast again recently on PBS, wonderful today as it was 20 years ago when it first...
A Taxing Goblin
The Kansas Legislature faces a special challenge this year, the budget fallout from a covid assault on the economy. The state's current taxing and...
Time, and ’empescher’
Time, and 'empescher'
The term impeachment runs far back in time, before this country was discovered and before democracy was a even gleam in any...
A scab that won’t heal
Kansas was briefly atop the Washington news this month when Rep. Jake LaTurner began his initiation in Congress by announcing he had tested covid...
Faith and futility
A recent Gallup poll revealed that American approval of Congress had dropped to 15 percent. This is much higher that the nine percent approval...
We and our government
The Republican tradition in Kansas is caught in a paradox, one that started before most farms had electricity and the only air conditioning was...
