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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.
Kansas history speaks: Government when it worked (2)
(Long before distress and malice became a Republican manifesto, Kansas had a most viable and vibrant government, led by people who helped the state...
Trump’s tribe, and that mythical “common” ground
The Republican national convention, seething with rage and contempt (“Make America Hate Again,” as The New York Times put it) provides a grand lesson...
IRS flap sidesteps a matter of secrecy
Several Republicans, including Jerry Moran, have dragged out that toothless whistle about closing the Internal Revenue Service, as though such an act would be...
A July 4 reminder: Civil rights trump the worship of property
The presidential race continues, with each side churning this way and that in hopes that people will begin to take the candidates seriously. There...
Trump is fruitless? – First consider our own
We do have a knack for getting things wrong. Or backwards.
Consider all that Republican hand-wringing and Democratic schadenfreude over the prospects that Donald Trump...
All those candidates, and one simple question
One of the bolder queries in campaign politics lies in a simple question: “Are you better off now..?
Adjusted for the current Kansas election cycle,...
A different dimension for the gun issue
Note: Out of respect to the Orlando victims, their families and friends, we have pulled the portion of this column that compared Donald Trump’s...
Wedding bells for church and state
Prepareth thyself. The Republican candidates for president, all 700 of them, have anointed Kim Davis as chief officiant for the marriage of church and...
DEPARTMENT OF BASEBALL: The feeble grounder is the new home run?
A few Sundays ago, when the Royals were playing the Red Sox, Boston’s Pablo Sandoval hit a feeble ground ball toward the mound. The...
Schools are helped by Potawatomi Nation
History often has a way with irony. As Phoenix rose from the ashes of its predecessor, cultures and nations have, over the ages, continued...
