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Marshall, John

Roots of discord (2)

  Second of five articles on the history of trouble in the Kansas Republican party Among the historic battles among Kansas Republicans, few match the decade-long...

Roots of discord (1)

  First of five articles on the history of trouble in the Kansas Republican party * Although Kansans frequently elect Democratic governors, we are seen as a...

Abandoned

The world seems a fretful place these days: climate change, storms, wars, anger, unrest. We once learned what was happening and why from daily newspapers,...

Faith-based potholes

Coffee clubs were likely unnerved recently when Mike Brown, the state's ham-fisted Republican chairman, said Kansas should junk non-partisan local elections. He believes candidates...

Squeezing hope

Tuition at the Kansas' six state universities will increase at least five percent next year, the first general increase in five years. State aid...

Country Medicine (2)

In late April, Kansas News Service reported on our ailing rural health care with focus on the hospital in Arkansas City ‒ not quite...

Country medicine (1)

In the year after the Lincoln County Hospital opened in 1952, I went there to have my tonsils out. The world is a big...

Gravel roads

There are at least 78,000 miles of gravel roads in Kansas, about 60 percent of the state's total road mileage. Estimates and studies can...

The big shaft (2)

Rural Kansas remains the power source of Republican veto-proof majorities in Topeka. The vast spaces of farm country may hold a minority in population...

The big shaft

Over the past 20 years, the legislature has denied more than $1.5 billion in property tax relief owed to Kansas cities and counties and...
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