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Marshall, John

Kassebaum and Dole: From another, better time

It won’t be long now. We fold the bunting on America’s poisonous presidential campaign with notes of a gathering six weeks ago that told of...

DEPARTMENT OF COMPLEXITY: Middle East geography

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...

We have mislaid our capacity for trust

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

The Knight problem and ‘false equivalency’

During the 1978 Kansas primary election, The Rev. Harold Knight, a shrill and contentious publicity hound from Chanute, telephoned the Hutchinson News to demand...

Untold story, unsung heroes: Baseball’s laundry (again)

Major league baseball is now in post-season play, the wake of a 162-game season that began in April for each of 30 teams, and...

Will we have change, or more of the same?

In certain wards and precincts across Kansas, the coming election offers a challenger, most likely a Democrat, to the incumbent office holder, more than...

On the ballot: change, or more of the same?

Gov. Brownback and friends continue to claim that the state’s former school finance formula was junked because it was “too difficult to understand.” On...

DEPARTMENT OF MEMORIES: Knowing what we don’t know

Long ago I worked for an editor in Hutchinson who often began department head meetings with a pop quiz. The test was to see...

Department of  Baseball: Considering the ‘best’

The other night Jessica Mendoza, one of ESPN’s celebrity baseball announcers, referred to Clayton Kershaw, the Dodgers’s brilliant left-handed pitcher, as “the best player...

The irony in Kobach’s voter fraud

Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach is still pressing, his campaign to suppress voter registration now festering in the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of...
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