JOHN MARSHALL

  We have sidetracked politics for a moment on grounds that this holiday season offers a time for reprieve. There is anxiety enough these days to fuel...

Concerts of the Smoky Valley Men’s Choir happen only every odd-numbered year, in conjunction with Hyllningsfest, thus are rare and beautiful events. A feature of their...

  Anyone notice the moon recently? A memorable eastern moon, one of those full spectacular discs that happen on cloudless nights before the Earth’s shadow begins to...

  Celebrations are planned in 2019 for a sesquicentennial, the 150th birthday of the founding of Lindsborg and to recognize communities in the Smoky Valley that help...

First the details: The Smoky Valley Men’s Choir will perform at 7 p.m. Saturday, December 9, at the Swedish Pavilion in Heritage Square north of the...

  The moral morass of Roy Moore, and the political wars foaming out of it, are a striking reminder why politics and religion are a terrible mix....

  In early 2015, Sen. Jerry Moran applauded the Obama Administration’s easing of U.S. sanctions against Cuba - without mentioning the president by name. Restoring trade with Cuba makes...

On trips away from the Smoky Valley we are sometimes asked where we are from. More than one good soul has drawn a blank at “Lindsborg,” but...

Kansas is the Mother Shipton, the Madame Thebes, the Witch of Endor, and the low barometer of the nation. When anything is going to happen in...

The mail has brought us another slick one from the Kochs’ printing factory, a full-color complaint that State Sen. Randall Hardy had voted for “a $1.2...