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John Marshall

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John Marshall is the retired editor-owner of the Lindsborg (Kan.) News-Record (2001-2012), and for 27 years (1970-1997) was a reporter, editor and publisher for publications of the Hutchinson-based Harris Newspaper Group. He has been writing about Kansas people, government and culture for more than 40 years, and currently writes a column for the News-Record and The Rural Messenger. He lives in Lindsborg with his wife, Rebecca, and their 21 year-old African-Grey parrot, Themis.

Women in politics (IV) (Last in a series)

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Women in Politics III

Before Joan Finney, there was Elwill Shanahan. Mrs. Finney is seen at the front of a parade that by the 1990s had gathered new...

Women in Politics (II)

In earlier times, elevated political status and powerful rank did not come easily for Kansas women. Achievement was slow when women were for serving...

Women in politics (I)

State Sen. Laura Kelly in 2018 became the third woman in less than 30 years to be elected governor of Kansas. Kelly, Joan Finney...

Costly failings

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The mother of Alberta Clippers blew over middle America last month with sub-zero cold and double-digit wind chills, icing the Dakotas, then Kansas, and...

The ghosts of Harry Lime

A half-dozen or more Covid-19 vaccines are now at work in the global battle against the pandemic. From the United States there are Pfizer,...

What once was, no more

Ken Burns's "Jazz", a 10-part, 19-hour documentary, was broadcast again recently on PBS, wonderful today as it was 20 years ago when it first...

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