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John Marshall
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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.
Faith-based potholes
Coffee clubs were likely unnerved recently when Mike Brown, the state's ham-fisted Republican chairman, said Kansas should junk non-partisan local elections. He believes candidates...
Squeezing hope
Tuition at the Kansas' six state universities will increase at least five percent next year, the first general increase in five years. State aid...
Country Medicine (2)
In late April, Kansas News Service reported on our ailing rural health care with focus on the hospital in Arkansas City ‒ not quite...
Country medicine (1)
In the year after the Lincoln County Hospital opened in 1952, I went there to have my tonsils out. The world is a big...
Gravel roads
There are at least 78,000 miles of gravel roads in Kansas, about 60 percent of the state's total road mileage. Estimates and studies can...
The big shaft (2)
Rural Kansas remains the power source of Republican veto-proof majorities in Topeka. The vast spaces of farm country may hold a minority in population...
The big shaft
Over the past 20 years, the legislature has denied more than $1.5 billion in property tax relief owed to Kansas cities and counties and...
Golden Fork, golden surplus
As mentioned here last month, lobbyists spend a lot of money entertaining legislators at Topeka and other venues. At the Kansas Governmental Ethics Commission,...
Debt and credit (2)
Unless Congress comes to its senses, the United States will run out of credit as early as next month. At issue is a federal...
Debt and credit (1)
The Biden administration's budget request for the fiscal year beginning in October proposes $6.9 trillion in federal spending and a $1.4 trillion deficit.
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