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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.
The state budget (4)
To most Kansans, the state budget is a ghost. It lives only on line ‒ a mysterious, cyberworld phantom roused only when politicians speak...
The state budget (3)
The governor's overall spending plan for the next budget year (beginning July 1) is estimated at $26.5 billion.
At its core is the general fund,...
The state budget (2)
Legislators are reviewing Gov. Laura Kelly's proposed $26.5 billion budget for the 2025 fiscal year that begins in July. The total is from all...
The state budget (1)
By early October each year, the agencies of state government are busy calculating their budgets for the next fiscal year. Scores of agents and...
Trade blackmail
Word from Republicans is that the party's odds-on presidential nominee, Donald Trump, plans to reverse President Biden's foreign trade policy soon after he is...
Carrier pigeons
The president of the Kansas Senate now heads one of America's strongest conservative cause lobbies, the American Legislative Exchange Council.
Ty Masterson, a Republican from...
Rediscovery
Time for our seasonal pause to consider the fashion of man's chronicle. Since before Christ, that history is richly indifferent. It sighs and shrugs,...
Anticipation
Advent here blew in on a low gray day. A frosty mist put vapor in the air and brought an early glow from the...
A Republican original
Decades ago when the Republicans had genuine leadership, the party celebrated its elder statesmen. After the Tafts and Teddy Roosevelt, Republican respect began to...
Choked Universities
A university education in Kansas is soon to get a bit more expensive. The Board of Regents, which oversees the state's six universities, is...
