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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.
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.
Our national...
Ethics fog (Last of three articles)
The Statehouse may be the public's building but it is the lobbyists' home.
Elections can change the membership of the state Senate or House of...
Ethics fog(Second of three articles)
Kansas legislators, especially Republicans, have nursed a long and unsettled feud with the state's ethics commission. Last year, Republicans were incensed that party officials...
Ethics fog (1)(First of three articles)
After several nasty scuffles, a long-heated argument has been settled with changes for the Kansas Governmental Ethics Commission, the agency that enforces the state's...
Extreme want… It’s an old story
A bank gets big, then bold. The bank plays fast and loose with money ‒ funds from depositors, borrowers, investors. Fast and loose becomes...
Pay and pensions
Kansas legislators have been busy hacking hundred-million dollar chunks from Gov. Laura Kelly's budget for state services while creating ways to carve out a...
Teachers and schools
On the first day of class in Latin II our teacher, Gladys De Nio, told us how to open the new textbooks: Starting with...
Falling flat
The Legislature is at it again, slogging on about a flat tax ‒ that is, a single rate for Kansas income taxes. (How "flat"...
Sibling wars (3)
At Hutchinson in January the Republican First District Committee censured Sen. Jerry Moran because he voted for spending bill supported by President Biden. (The...
