Marshal, John
Kansas can’t be fixed with alibis and lies
State Sen. Rick Wilborn, whose district includes Lindsborg and the Smoky Valley, has mailed to constituents a newsletter proclaiming, among other things, that the Kansas Legislature...
Marshal, John
Salina sales tax reveals a statewide issue
In Salina, voters will decide by mail ballot whether to increase the city’s sales tax, an issue forced on that community by the malignant...
Marshal, John
DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH: Sports lingo and other crimes
DURING a recent televised basketball battle between the San Antonio Spurs and Golden State Warriors, one of the announcers swooned on about the Warrior’s...
Marshal, John
More news from the Rabbit Hole…
This week’s Mad Hatter trophy goes to the Kansas Senate, for following Alice into Wonderland and approving plans for that miracle pipeline to bring...
Marshal, John
The real Republican problem: Trump can’t be controlled
It was a stunning lesson in irony.
When the grumpy old patricians of the Grand Old Party trotted out Mitt Romney to denounce Donald Trump, the...
Marshal, John
When Republicans started to destroy their own
Fratricide is legendary in the Kansas Republican party, a recurring affliction since before the progressives’ and Teddy Roosevelt’s Bull Moose insurgency more than a...
Marshal, John
Why Topeka cannot connect
For a long time after statehood, Kansas climbed upward, a state and its citizenry moving ahead. Following the Civil War, new inventions had lightened...
Marshal, John
Tattoos only signal the greater issue
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...
