Marshall, John

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

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

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...

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...

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...

As mentioned here last month, lobbyists spend a lot of money entertaining legislators at Topeka and other venues. At the Kansas Governmental Ethics Commission,...

Unless Congress comes to its senses, the United States will run out of credit as early as next month. At issue is a federal...

The Biden administration's budget request for the fiscal year beginning in October proposes $6.9 trillion in federal spending and a $1.4 trillion deficit. Our national...

The Statehouse may be the public's building but it is the lobbyists' home. Elections can change the membership of the state Senate or House of...

Kansas legislators, especially Republicans, have nursed a long and unsettled feud with the state's ethics commission. Last year, Republicans were incensed that party officials...