JOHN MARSHALL

  The big chore confronting the 2018 Kansas Legislature is a long, grinding march into the matted jungle thicket of local school finance. Its landscape is clotted...

  Why is Dale Dennis the patron saint of local schools in Kansas – and why are a handful of top Kansas legislators out to persecute him? Dennis,...

Former Kansas Senator Bob Dole was honored a couple of weeks ago with the Congressional Gold Medal, a ceremony that presented a chilling contrast – a...

  Kansas legislators must stop singing sad songs as though they were composed by someone else. Of course the House and Senate face enormous challenges, most of...

  Kansas has a peculiar link to the furor that President Trump kicked up when he junked DACA, revived it, throttled it, then added eviction notices for...

  An election year will bring another cycle of bloat, the tortured patterns of illusion, bluff and fiction, and with fragments of truth scattered here and there....

In Des Moines on New Year’s Eve the wind chill hit 31 below, and officials closed the ice skating rink. In central Kansas, the recent freeze...

It seems for the moment that Kansas is a state with two governors: Sam Brownback and Jeff Colyer. Brownback officially holds the office but with a...

  It’s always a treat to be lectured by politicians who denounce government aid. From time to time, they will drag out their old harangue about the...

At this season of the year, darkness is a more insistent thing than cold. The days are short as a dream. The sun begins to lose...