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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.
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Make America Sick Again

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Congress is moving rapidly, recklessly, to repeal the Affordable Care Act while offering nothing to replace it. This will ensure America’s station in the...
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School finance: A troubled and complicated history

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(Second of three articles) By early May in 1992 the Democratic and Republican leaders of the Kansas Legislature had begun to compromise on the remaining...
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School finance: A troubled and complicated history

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  (First of four articles) Kansas legislators must soon secure equitable and adequate funding for local public schools. Central to this challenge is the 1992 Kansas...
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We still have a government; do we know why?

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On the eve of another session of the Kansas Legislature, it may help to recall that state government wasn’t always so wretchedly mismanaged. Until...
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A government set-up for private profiteers

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The state’s mental hospitals at Osawatomie and Larned are among the more battered victims of Gov. Sam Brownback’s calculated abuse of state agencies. His...
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The hidden cost in what is ‘free’

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The Koch brother billionaires, David and Charles, are big on what they call the “free market,” a term that has great appeal in Kansas....
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On giving thanks

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  The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, “God, I thank thee, that I am not as other men are.” – Luke 18:11 Without speaking...
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Dusk seems such a comfort

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It is an American custom that as the year winds out, we pause to be grateful – for what we have, for what we...
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DEPARTMENT OF COMPLEXITY: Middle East geography

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A couple of months ago the press tsk-tsked Gary Johnson, the Libertarian candidate for president, after he blew an MSNBC interview: How, he was...
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We have mislaid our capacity for trust

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David Brooks, a New York Times columnist, said recently that America is buried in an “avalanche of distrust,” the failing of a society that...
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