Marshal, John

During the 1978 Kansas primary election, The Rev. Harold Knight, a shrill and contentious publicity hound from Chanute, telephoned the Hutchinson News to demand...

Major league baseball is now in post-season play, the wake of a 162-game season that began in April for each of 30 teams, and...

In certain wards and precincts across Kansas, the coming election offers a challenger, most likely a Democrat, to the incumbent office holder, more than...

Gov. Brownback and friends continue to claim that the state’s former school finance formula was junked because it was “too difficult to understand.” On...

Long ago I worked for an editor in Hutchinson who often began department head meetings with a pop quiz. The test was to see...

Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach is still pressing, his campaign to suppress voter registration now festering in the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of...

The street sweeper makes its rounds in Lindsborg on Fridays, and in our neighborhood we usually see it around noon – usually, we say,...

Fred Vandegrift, a newspaper man from deep in his bones and his soul, died on August 28 in Wichita. He will be remembered for...

Some time ago I was asked by a couple of editors in California to write a short essay about Kansas. It was titled “A...

(Long before distress and malice became a Republican manifesto, Kansas had a most viable and vibrant government, led by people who helped the state...