Marshall, John
Persistent mysteries before their time
The image seemed to leap off the page, radiant, the black-and-white thumbnail of a young woman with the smile of a perfect prairie sunrise....
Marshall, John
Kobach’s future: even darker days
Naturally in Kansas, given the Calvinism coursing through our heritage, we are at risk of paying for good fortune with a bit of the...
Marshall, John
Once upon a time, there was a place…
Does anyone remember that back-to-the-future agreement several years ago, in Topeka, the one about building a small town for the State Historical Society? In...
Marshall, John
Back to days of the buggy whip
Consider the way Trump Republicans think about the world, the universe. They pull out of the Paris Climate Accord, offering no substance, no evidence...
Marshall, John
Midsummers, the past speaks of tomorrow
Rural editors should think of their newspapers as the diary of a country town, a community journal.
Years later the record of life in a...
Marshall, John
New, respected leaders and a world that needs them
Emmanuel Macron, 39, the new president of France, is more evidence that progressive nations are turning to young, learned, and especially sophisticated leadership in...
Marshall, John
Taxes: pay up and catch up
Legislators often fall prey to the no-tax lobbyists, those alt-right yawpers who believe that highways build themselves, the police work for free, hospitals and...
Marshall, John
No longer a place for lawyers
We have a coffee mug that says on one side:
“Talk is cheap...”
And on the other,
“until you hire a lawyer.”
Joking about lawyers, the perplexity and...
