Marshal, John
Broadcasters love speed; do viewers understand?
As the baseball season ends with the Cubs’ astonishing World Series victory, so ends the broadcasters’ obsession with the radar gun and the speed...
Marshal, John
Kassebaum and Dole: From another, better time
It won’t be long now.
We fold the bunting on America’s poisonous presidential campaign with notes of a gathering six weeks ago that told of...
Marshal, John
DEPARTMENT OF COMPLEXITY: Middle East geography
A couple of months ago the press tsk-tsked Gary Johnson, the Libertarian candidate for president, after he blew an MSNBC interview: How, he was...
Marshal, John
We have mislaid our capacity for trust
David Brooks, a New York Times columnist, said recently that America is buried in an “avalanche of distrust,” the failing of a society that...
Marshal, John
The Knight problem and ‘false equivalency’
During the 1978 Kansas primary election, The Rev. Harold Knight, a shrill and contentious publicity hound from Chanute, telephoned the Hutchinson News to demand...
Marshal, John
Untold story, unsung heroes: Baseball’s laundry (again)
Major league baseball is now in post-season play, the wake of a 162-game season that began in April for each of 30 teams, and...
Marshal, John
Will we have change, or more of the same?
In certain wards and precincts across Kansas, the coming election offers a challenger, most likely a Democrat, to the incumbent office holder, more than...
Marshal, John
On the ballot: change, or more of the same?
Gov. Brownback and friends continue to claim that the state’s former school finance formula was junked because it was “too difficult to understand.” On...
