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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 bigger Hastert story: a crime missing a perp
Anyone out there remember the Dennis Hastert scandal?
Hastert, a former speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives (1999-2007), was indicted in late May and...
DEPARTMENT OF MEMORIES: Early chess in Lindsborg
Anistasiya James, the new director at the Karpov International Chess School in Lindsborg, gave an inspired talk recently to the Kiwanis Club, recounting the...
Were the 2014 elections hacked? (Officials block search for answers )
More questions continue to bubble up, adding to the feeling that all those pre-election polls in Kansas might not have been wrong after all....
Storms remind us why we need a federal government
President Obama, the man so many Kansans love to hate, has declared 42 counties major disaster areas in the wake of savage storms that...
When we once admired teachers
Virginia Long was the first teacher I really liked. During my years at Lincoln Grade School, in the 1950s, kindergarten and each of six...
A man for all seasons, and all the wrong reasons
We had planned this week’s Donald Trump Love Thy Neighbor award for Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, who continues his relentless campaign to...
Deanell Reese Tacha: A vivid history comes to Lindsborg
The Kansas Women Attorneys Association meets this week in Lindsborg – for the 26th consecutive year – and again has stretched the measure of...
Walker pulls a ‘Brownback,’ angering his own GOP
Out on the national hustings, Scott Walker may be a darling
of the Republican right, but in Wisconsin, where he is governor,
he’s in trouble.
In the...
Kansas elections are not the answer
Among the notions inspired by the Supreme Court’s gay marriage ruling is that the issue is far too important to be settled in a...
The Garfield Expressway: why we have (good) government
We have now driven the glorious new Garfield Street Expressway from Second Street to Kansas and back, and there’s not a bump in the...
