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Marshall, John

Talk of ‘values’ will be tricky this year

  The Kansas Republican Party announced the other day that Jim Joice had been hired as executive director, replacing Clay Barker, who had joined the staff of...

Refueling school finance; the price for grievous error

  In spite of the latest school funding study, legislators should avoid the temptation to scrap or radically alter the state’s current formula for aid to local...

Disaster can expose our greatest delusions

Gov. Jeff Colyer has made it official: Kansas is parched. It is difficult to measure precipitation on average in this state because rain and snow can fall...

Refueling school finance;payment for a lesson learned

Legislators should avoid the temptation to scrap or radically alter the state’s current formula for aid to local school districts. It has usually needed tinkering from time...

Välkommen Trail: Another jewel in its crown

  In May the City will begin to lengthen Välkommen Trail, the 2ó-mile bicycle and pedestrian byway that now winds through Lindsborg south and north. The project will...

Kansas primary elections: always crowded, disordered

  By one count at the end of February, 22 candidates had filed to run for Kansas governor; two others had withdrawn, and two more – from...

Coronado Heights: A crown immutable

We took a recent drive to Coronado Heights, a signature landmark embraced by history and myth. It is just north of Lindsborg, the highest mound nearby,...

February: the 3 a.m. of the calendar

  Winter in Kansas now seems impossible. A sustained winter that is, hard frozen, with layers of snow building with the intermittent storms and to melt only...

State aid is life for local schools

  The big chore confronting the 2018 Kansas Legislature is a long, grinding march into the matted jungle thicket of local school finance. Its landscape is clotted...

The schemes of desperate politicians

  Why is Dale Dennis the patron saint of local schools in Kansas – and why are a handful of top Kansas legislators out to persecute him? Dennis,...
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