Monday, December 15, 2025

Marshall, John

Rediscovery

Time for our seasonal pause to consider the fashion of man's chronicle. Since before Christ, that history is richly indifferent. It sighs and shrugs,...

Anticipation

Advent here blew in on a low gray day. A frosty mist put vapor in the air and brought an early glow from the...

A Republican original

  Decades ago when the Republicans had genuine leadership, the party celebrated its elder statesmen. After the Tafts and Teddy Roosevelt, Republican respect began to...

Choked Universities

A university education in Kansas is soon to get a bit more expensive. The Board of Regents, which oversees the state's six universities, is...

East and West (3)

The state's few metropolitan counties and its vast rural stretches are set apart by contrasting landscapes, divergent lifestyles and disparate cultures. But their people...

East and west (2)

  It's doubtful that anyone in Lawrence worries over the water supply in Hays or cattle prices in Dodge City ‒ at least not in...

East and West (1)

It's nearly two years since Lawrence became an urban foster child in farm country. After the 2020 census, the legislature's dominant Republicans were gripped by...

Potential Spam

The Kansas Legislature is on the way to a fat pay increase, courtesy of a special compensation committee created earlier this year by the...