Marshall, John

Recent election flops in Salina and Saline County are reason to wonder why we continue to fiddle with electronic voting. In November, a so-called “malfunction” left...

Spring is a season of reunions – schools and their graduating classes, families, social clubs and civic groups, among many others, all finding ways...

Indiana, Arkansas – Kansas had them beat by a couple of years. Our legislature passed a religious freedom law in 2013, granting Kansans the right to discriminate...

Two years ago, we offered an assessment of the Kansas Legislature with the headline, A sinister session. “The temp- tation is strong,” we said, “to describe...

The William J. Clinton Presidential Center and Crystal Bridges, Alice Walton’s contribution to the heritage of American art, are two magnificent antidotes to the credo, in some...

Jim Prugh, the Lakewood, Colo., investor who brings new life to old buildings in downtown Lindsborg, has begun another renovation – this one at 118 South...

Salinans have praised the arts for generations and lately their government has increased the arts as a mission. The list of public and private organizations that...

By John Schlageck, Kansas Farm Bureau Billed as, Nearly everything an agribusiness professional would need or want, this year’s 54th edition of the Western Farm...

Part 3 In early 2004, not long after a Shawnee County District Court judge had lashed the Kansas Legislature for under- funding local schools, urban lawmakers began...

Part 2 Gov. Sam Brownback’s plan to slash state spending for schools comes from his overall mission to abolish the state income tax; to cover the resulting...