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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.

The state budget (1)

By early October each year, the agencies of state government are busy calculating their budgets for the next fiscal year. Scores of agents and...

Trade blackmail

Word from Republicans is that the party's odds-on presidential nominee, Donald Trump, plans to reverse President Biden's foreign trade policy soon after he is...

Carrier pigeons

The president of the Kansas Senate now heads one of America's strongest conservative cause lobbies, the American Legislative Exchange Council. Ty Masterson, a Republican from...

Rediscovery

Time for our seasonal pause to consider the fashion of man's chronicle. Since before Christ, that history is richly indifferent. It sighs and shrugs,...

Anticipation

Advent here blew in on a low gray day. A frosty mist put vapor in the air and brought an early glow from the...

A Republican original

  Decades ago when the Republicans had genuine leadership, the party celebrated its elder statesmen. After the Tafts and Teddy Roosevelt, Republican respect began to...

Choked Universities

A university education in Kansas is soon to get a bit more expensive. The Board of Regents, which oversees the state's six universities, is...

East and West (3)

The state's few metropolitan counties and its vast rural stretches are set apart by contrasting landscapes, divergent lifestyles and disparate cultures. But their people...

East and west (2)

  It's doubtful that anyone in Lawrence worries over the water supply in Hays or cattle prices in Dodge City ‒ at least not in...

East and West (1)

It's nearly two years since Lawrence became an urban foster child in farm country. After the 2020 census, the legislature's dominant Republicans were gripped by...

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