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Marshall, John

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  By one count at the end of February, 22 candidates had filed to run for Kansas governor; two others had withdrawn, and two more – from...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

Profile from a different time

Former Kansas Senator Bob Dole was honored a couple of weeks ago with the Congressional Gold Medal, a ceremony that presented a chilling contrast – a...

Federal tax cuts to finance Kansas recovery?

  Kansas legislators must stop singing sad songs as though they were composed by someone else. Of course the House and Senate face enormous challenges, most of...

Trump, Kansas and slavery’s wicked cousin

  Kansas has a peculiar link to the furor that President Trump kicked up when he junked DACA, revived it, throttled it, then added eviction notices for...

DEPARTMENT OF PATRIOTISM: Taxes are necessary, crucial

  An election year will bring another cycle of bloat, the tortured patterns of illusion, bluff and fiction, and with fragments of truth scattered here and there....

A good hard freeze is not a bad thing

In Des Moines on New Year’s Eve the wind chill hit 31 below, and officials closed the ice skating rink. In central Kansas, the recent freeze...
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