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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.

Tax cuts become a crushing local burden

In Kansas, a great flywheel has been set in motion, dragging the citizenry inexorably along the governor’s Glide Path to Zero, that no income...

Fringe voters elect a crackpot legislature

Our elections are tailored today for the zealous voter and the fringe campaign.   Consider: Of citizens over age 18 (and eligible to vote), fewer than...

Bush is next to sing the far-right love ballad

Jeb Bush, the former Florida governor, brother of one president and son of another, is a moderate Republican turning red. He will deepen his...

Convention is a bad idea

We’re surprised that a conservative like Tom Coburn would thump the tub for a constitutional convention, because it’s such a waste of money. It’s...

Junk the machines; return to paper ballots

Recent election flops in Salina and Saline County are reason to wonder why we continue to fiddle with electronic voting. In November, a so-called “malfunction” left...

College, community, coach: A Bethany football reunion

Spring is a season of reunions – schools and their graduating classes, families, social clubs and civic groups, among many others, all finding ways...

When ‘freedom’ becomes ‘freedumb’

Indiana, Arkansas – Kansas had them beat by a couple of years. Our legislature passed a religious freedom law in 2013, granting Kansans the right to discriminate...

Our Gleichschaltung: Destroying state government

Two years ago, we offered an assessment of the Kansas Legislature with the headline, A sinister session. “The temp- tation is strong,” we said, “to describe...

Bringing back the finer parts of history

Jim Prugh, the Lakewood, Colo., investor who brings new life to old buildings in downtown Lindsborg, has begun another renovation – this one at 118 South...

Commercial and chimerical – the value of beauty

Salinans have praised the arts for generations and lately their government has increased the arts as a mission. The list of public and private organizations that...

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