Marshal, John

The current issue of trooper tattoos isn’t about tattoos, but about the state’s slide into mediocrity, and worse. The surface question is whether the Kansas...

In Kansas, land of the dry wash and the mud creek, where a trickle of sludge or a slow heave of brown syrup passes...

Among the government branches, our judiciary is the lone thread of hope, a cradle of equity in the people’s desire for a fair shake....

Much of Christmastime is about faith and miracles, pleasures that are unpurchasable, satisfactions unpredictable, pleasures unexpected – the joy in ribbons and music and...

This is a moment in the year we are glad we’re not in Florida, staring at people our age playing shuffleboard, or on a...

On April 19, 1995, a massive truck bomb was detonated in downtown Oklahoma City, demolishing the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, leaving 168 dead...

America stands as a dangerous place. A lot of guns, a lot of murder by guns. A lot of talk about gun control for...

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...

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...

Let’s not forget mid-April, the month of “before.” Mid-April: that carefree interlude in state government when legislators were content to take sport in the...