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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.
Persistent mysteries before their time
The image seemed to leap off the page, radiant, the black-and-white thumbnail of a young woman with the smile of a perfect prairie sunrise....
Once upon a time, there was a place…
Does anyone remember that back-to-the-future agreement several years ago, in Topeka, the one about building a small town for the State Historical Society? In...
Back to days of the buggy whip
Consider the way Trump Republicans think about the world, the universe. They pull out of the Paris Climate Accord, offering no substance, no evidence...
Midsummers, the past speaks of tomorrow
Rural editors should think of their newspapers as the diary of a country town, a community journal.
Years later the record of life in a...
New, respected leaders and a world that needs them
Emmanuel Macron, 39, the new president of France, is more evidence that progressive nations are turning to young, learned, and especially sophisticated leadership in...
Taxes: pay up and catch up
Legislators often fall prey to the no-tax lobbyists, those alt-right yawpers who believe that highways build themselves, the police work for free, hospitals and...
Kansas, Texas, who cares?
When GateHouse Media last November bought The Salina Journal, Hutchinson News and four other remnants of what was once the Harris Newspaper Group. The...
The long, slow death of Harris Enterprises
It began in 1988 on a grim October afternoon and ended three decades later, in November 2016:
A once-stellar newspaper group breathed its last.
The first...
Highways and food, none in moderation
CARTHAGE, Miss.– We traveled the Natchez Trace until the gas gauge told us the car needed a fill. We took highway 16 east through...
A search for special places (Part 7) – Mississippi and Kansas: reconciliation and relapse
Mississippi and Kansas: reconciliation and relapse
My urge to visit Mississippi was driven mostly by two compulsions: a longing to explore the great Delta, landscape...
