Marshall, John

In April, 1887, Susanna Salter, 27, called to order the newly elected, all-male city council of Argonia, Kansas. "Gentlemen,” she said, “the eyes of...

Over the decade or more that I reported local government in Lindsborg, the meetings that concerned public business were often lively, usually interesting, sometimes...

Jay Inslee, Seth Moulton and John Hickenlooper have dropped out, shrinking the Democratic field of presidential candidates to 21. More will separate, and fall...

Mikhail Korenman came floating back into town recently through the airwaves, a brief feature (August 10) on National Public Radio. Korenman teaches chess at...

Terry Bullock died last week in Topeka. He was 79, retired, and was a venerable and respected state judge in Shawnee County for more...

June Crenshaw, matriarch of a renowned family and the venerable Shamrock Farms ranch in Kansas' northern Flint Hills, died early Thursday, August 1, at...

The Congress is under pressure to raise the nation's $23 trillion debt limit by a late summer or early September deadline, when the borrowing...

In a splash of 36 glossy pages, a magazine precedes the 71st McPherson County Fair now on in Canton. It's an alluring promotion, listing...

Already in this youngish election season, we hear grumbling about the "progressive" agenda, how it is off-base, that people should at most take no...

Out here in the hinterlands we might find it surprising that members of Congress are itching for raise in their current pay of $174,000...