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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.
‘Candles’ and BBC
LINDSBORG – At the post office the other day a woman from years ago greeted me by name, and I struggled not to draw...
A Town House Christmas
Covid's menace has reinforced the pleasure of reminiscence, to hark back to the past for something treasured and secure. Shadows of uncertainty amplify the...
A losing proposition
Let's add politics fatigue to covid fatigue.
Once we had buffers – family, community, our traditions. Today simple humanity seems warped by everything political. Masks,...
On giving thanks
The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, “God, I thank thee, that I am not as other men are.” – Luke 18:11
As the...
Talk with an old friend
The landscape turns brilliant, shudders, then settles in for a rest. Autumn is here.
In a time of covid and seclusion, affection for our surroundings...
“Supermarket Socialism”
In late October, the Erie City Council unanimously approved a plan for their government to buy Stub's Market, the town's only full-service grocery store....
“You are entitled to your opinion, but you are not entitled to your own facts.”
A people amendment
By John Marshall
"You are entitled to your opinion, but you are not entitled to your own facts."
– Daniel Patrick Moynihan
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Moynihan, who died...
Back to the old days
Back to the old days
By John Marshall
The death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. The swift debut of her successor-in-waiting. An ailing president, his covid-contaminated...
Lloyd Ballhagen, last of the Harris greats
Lloyd Ballhagen, Last of the Harris greats
Into the Night
By John Marshall
In the days of big telephones on office desks, he answered with a soft...
Lloyd Ballhagen, Obituary
Former Harris chairman dead at 89
Lloyd Ballhagen, the Kansas newspaper executive who joined Harris Enterprises in 1958 and advanced to become the company's president...
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