Marshall, John

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...

After several nasty scuffles, a long-heated argument has been settled with changes for the Kansas Governmental Ethics Commission, the agency that enforces the state's...

A bank gets big, then bold. The bank plays fast and loose with money ‒ funds from depositors, borrowers, investors. Fast and loose becomes...

Kansas legislators have been busy hacking hundred-million dollar chunks from Gov. Laura Kelly's budget for state services while creating ways to carve out a...

On the first day of class in Latin II our teacher, Gladys De Nio, told us how to open the new textbooks: Starting with...

The Legislature is at it again, slogging on about a flat tax ‒ that is, a single rate for Kansas income taxes. (How "flat"...

At Hutchinson in January the Republican First District Committee censured Sen. Jerry Moran because he voted for spending bill supported by President Biden. (The...

The Republicans' censure of Jerry Moran and the ascent of state chairman Mike Brown, an election conspiracy promoter, are recent flashpoints in a long...

Last month in Hutchinson, the Republicans' First District Congressional Committee voted to censure Jerry Moran because he voted for a federal spending bill endorsed...