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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.
A search for special places (Part five)
At the Blue Front Cafe:
BENTONIA, Miss. - Twenty miles northwest of Jackson, this town is marked only by the smallest sign. On a pole,...
A search for special places
(Part four)
JACKSON, Miss. - One of the most penetrating stories to come out of the south, one that confronts race and class and heritage...
Special Places
(Part three)
Advisor, critic, mimic:
Themis, our companion and navigator for this road trip, is an African Grey parrot long experienced in traveling great American roadways....
A search for special places
(Part Two)
YAZOO CITY, Miss. - We drove northwest out of Jackson on highway 49, a limited-access four-lane that slithers into the tall pines and...
A search for special places
(Part One)
For many years I have been lured into other worlds, real and imagined, by the intoxicating power of writers with special talent. Their...
Property taxes in Kansas: vexation and salvation
(Last of three articles)
Any competent discussion of property taxes in Kansas must, at some point, include the searing analyses of Judge Terry Bullock. His...
Property taxes in Kansas: vexation and salvation
(Second of three articles)
The Kansas Legislature is in a monumental struggle to balance a state budget that otherwise faces an operating deficit of nearly...
Property taxes in Kansas: vexation and salvation
(First of three articles)
Most of us who think about what we read in the newspapers can feel at least a bit of the pain...
Alf Landon: modern America’s original liberal
Second of two articles about the Landons – Nancy, a former U.S. Senator (1978-96), and her father, Alf, the former Kansas governor (1933-37) and...
NO FOLDING MACHINES…
Last November, the Kansas State Historical Society inducted former Gov. Alf Landon and Sen. Nancy Kassebaum into the Kansas Walk of Honor on the...
