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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.
Kicking schools: What is ‘substantial?’
Gov. Brownback has continued to insist that his block grant
funding plan for local schools was more than adequate in spite
of startling evidence that makes...
Wait ‘till next year; this was just a warm-up
Our Legislature will return and with it, the malaise. The
Republican majorities this year crafted tax increases to collect
a bit more than $300 million, predicting...
Holidays arrive early: A face lift for Garfield!
Garfield Street, between Second and Kansas, has a new, smooth, gleaming surface, a fabulous event for northeast Lindsborg.
For years, this had been an ornery...
The clowns run the Fair
Kansas has added a new process to local school finance:
groveling.
At the governor’s direction, the legislature embedded significant
cuts into their block grant edict – one...
Will legislators revive the sales tax on utilities?
There have been few big plans to fill the state’s immediate
$400 million budget shortfall. But one idea, first mentioned
in 2010 and quietly revived recently,...
Tax cuts become a crushing local burden
In Kansas, a great flywheel has been set in motion, dragging the citizenry inexorably along the governor’s Glide Path to Zero, that no income...
Fringe voters elect a crackpot legislature
Our elections are tailored today for the zealous voter and the fringe campaign.
Consider: Of citizens over age 18 (and eligible to vote), fewer than...
Bush is next to sing the far-right love ballad
Jeb Bush, the former Florida governor, brother of one president and son of another, is a moderate Republican turning red. He will deepen his...
Convention is a bad idea
We’re surprised that a conservative like Tom Coburn would thump the tub for a constitutional convention, because it’s such a waste of money. It’s...
Junk the machines; return to paper ballots
Recent election flops in Salina and Saline County are reason
to wonder why we continue to fiddle with electronic voting.
In November, a so-called “malfunction” left...
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