Marshall, John

Gov. Brownback has continued to insist that his block grant funding plan for local schools was more than adequate in spite of startling evidence that makes...

Our Legislature will return and with it, the malaise. The Republican majorities this year crafted tax increases to collect a bit more than $300 million, predicting...

Garfield Street, between Second and Kansas, has a new, smooth, gleaming surface, a fabulous event for northeast Lindsborg. For years, this had been an ornery...

Kansas has added a new process to local school finance: groveling. At the governor’s direction, the legislature embedded significant cuts into their block grant edict – one...

We recently received a letter – commentary, a spool of anguish – from Aaron Estabrook, of Manhattan, distressed at Gov. Sam Brownback’s assault on...

There have been few big plans to fill the state’s immediate $400 million budget shortfall. But one idea, first mentioned in 2010 and quietly revived recently,...

In Kansas, a great flywheel has been set in motion, dragging the citizenry inexorably along the governor’s Glide Path to Zero, that no income...

Our elections are tailored today for the zealous voter and the fringe campaign.   Consider: Of citizens over age 18 (and eligible to vote), fewer than...

Jeb Bush, the former Florida governor, brother of one president and son of another, is a moderate Republican turning red. He will deepen his...

We’re surprised that a conservative like Tom Coburn would thump the tub for a constitutional convention, because it’s such a waste of money. It’s...