Marshall, John

When GateHouse Media last November bought The Salina Journal, Hutchinson News and four other remnants of what was once the Harris Newspaper Group. The...

It began in 1988 on a grim October afternoon and ended three decades later, in November 2016: A once-stellar newspaper group breathed its last. The first...

CARTHAGE, Miss.– We traveled the Natchez Trace until the gas gauge told us the car needed a fill. We took highway 16 east through...

Mississippi and Kansas: reconciliation and relapse My urge to visit Mississippi was driven mostly by two compulsions: a longing to explore the great Delta, landscape...

That mysterious ‘state of mind ...’ John J. Ingalls, the attorney, writer and politician, coined the Kansas motto Ad Astra per Aspera. Ingalls, a...

JACKSON, Miss. - Imagine Salina, all of it, without water - not a drop - for three days. Or Hutchinson. On Thursday, March 9, officials...

At the Blue Front Cafe: BENTONIA, Miss. - Twenty miles northwest of Jackson, this town is marked only by the smallest sign. On a pole,...

(Part four) JACKSON, Miss. - One of the most penetrating stories to come out of the south, one that confronts race and class and heritage...

(Part three) Advisor, critic, mimic: Themis, our companion and navigator for this road trip, is an African Grey parrot long experienced in traveling great American roadways....

(Part Two) YAZOO CITY, Miss. - We drove northwest out of Jackson on highway 49, a limited-access four-lane that slithers into the tall pines and...