Thursday, March 5, 2026

Marshall, John

Into the trenches

In early July, Heath Hogan began making the rounds. The new Smoky Valley Schools Superintendent has wasted no time meeting people, attending and speaking...

Police work

During one week in early August the Lindsborg Police Department took scores of calls and responded to 45 of them. Outlines of the summons...

The Gray State

Kansas made big headlines this month when voters chose to continue the state Supreme Court's guarantee of a right to abortion (with certain limits). Shock...

Small ball

We hit a sour note last week on big time college football, its gilt-edged landscapes and billion-dollar beds of clover for athletic departments. Battles...

Adieu, sport

Color TV was the new thing when I was in college. Gasoline was 29 cents a gallon and football was grand, a sport knitted...

Religion as governing

The matter of abortion festers on the August 2 ballot as a proposed constitutional amendment. There are two choices: yes or no. No maybe. Say...

Kansas and Cuba

Like it or not, we are citizens of the world, our planet a shared breeding ground for promise or despair, isolation or inclusion. Two...

Glen Suppes

LINDSBORG – The great room was alive with voices, the thrum of conversation. Scores of people were arriving, alone or in pairs or clusters,...