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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.

A grand legacy threatened; the viper in our garden

For six decades, the Secretary of State’s office was Kansas’ chief steward of government order and commercial province. It was a modest, efficient agency,...

Coronado Heights: A crown immutable

We took a recent drive to Coronado Heights, a signature landmark embraced by history and myth. It is just north of Lindsborg, the highest mound nearby,...

State aid is life for local schools

  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...

The schemes of desperate politicians

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A good hard freeze is not a bad thing

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...

Here’s a plan that might still work

  Remember Simpson-Bowles? That’s the long-forgotten blueprint for reducing the federal debt and balancing the budget. It was crafted by a bipartisan, 18-member commission headed by former Sen. Alan...

Why denounce bailouts, our staff of life?

  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...

Compassion becomes a dirty word

  ...Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore, Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I...

Christmas, our season of light

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...

Music at Christmas, a rare and requisite tonic

  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...

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