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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.

Life’s fading pleasures

Every now and then we receive a letter in the mail from a relative or a friend, usually a thank-you but occasionally something about...

Brownback: selling tolerance in Babylon?

Brownback’s nomination as an “ambassador at large for international religious freedom” prompts several questions, beginning with: What does such an ambassador do? The Wichita...

Smoky Valley Car Show, an event for time-travel

The 16th annual Smoky Valley Car Show, in Lindsborg’s Swensson Park on Saturday, August 5, is a certain magnet for memories. The vehicles there,...

Kobach, his immunity, the power of his ghosts

The Legislative Coordinating Council just before lunch on Friday, June 30, unanimously approved a motion to order Secretary of State Kris Kobach, a Republican...

Senate: Our insurance isn’t your insurance

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Sam Williams, the former mayoral candidate from Wichita who now heads the state’s Department of Revenue, has sent out a column of old worn...

Persistent mysteries before their time

The image seemed to leap off the page, radiant, the black-and-white thumbnail of a young woman with the smile of a perfect prairie sunrise....

Once upon a time, there was a place…

Does anyone remember that back-to-the-future agreement several years ago, in Topeka, the one about building a small town for the State Historical Society? In...

Back to days of the buggy whip

Consider the way Trump Republicans think about the world, the universe. They pull out of the Paris Climate Accord, offering no substance, no evidence...

Midsummers, the past speaks of tomorrow

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