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Marshall, John

On a return to good government

Last week we lamented the loss of our ability to dream, to put the possible back on our list of things to do. It was the...

DEPARTMENT OF BASEBALL: High science, big nuisance

Televised major league baseball has become a great lectern for the broadcaster and a chore for the viewer; it has taken a great sport...

Kansas can’t be fixed with alibis and lies

State Sen. Rick Wilborn, whose district includes Lindsborg and the Smoky Valley, has mailed to constituents a newsletter proclaiming, among other things, that the Kansas Legislature...

DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH: Sports lingo and other crimes

DURING a recent televised basketball battle between the San Antonio Spurs and Golden State Warriors, one of the announcers swooned on about the Warrior’s...

This is no time to play nice

Bill Gusenius has a point, but perhaps not the one he had intended. In a letter last week to The News-Record, Gusenius, a talented...

A state of collapse: No one to help?

On a recent late afternoon the sudden shriek of a siren shocked us in mid-step as we reached the doors at the Lindsborg Post...

Alvin Sykes: Showing the power of facts and the truth

At long last we have met Alvin Sykes, savior of libraries, healer of disparities, a man whose faith in fellows seems to have no...

Plan to steal traffic fine reveal state’s desperation

Lindsborg City Administrator Greg DuMars alerts us to yet another plot by legislators desperate to stem a hemorrhage of red ink in the state...

For the poor in Kansas, a Catch-22 called KanCare

It was once the mark of a good place that government took care of the poor and sick, the elderly, the infirm. But in...

County-line consolidation, straight from the Mad Hatter

The Alice in Wonderland approach to local schools took on new energy in Topeka recently when Rep. John Bradford introduced a bill for county-line...
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