Marshall, John

Marshal, John

DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH: Sports lingo and other crimes

Editor - April 17, 2016

DURING a recent televised basketball battle between the San Antonio Spurs and Golden State Warriors, one of the announcers swooned on about the Warrior’s...

Marshall, John

This is no time to play nice

Editor - April 10, 2016

Bill Gusenius has a point, but perhaps not the one he had intended. In a letter last week to The News-Record, Gusenius, a talented...

Marshall, John

A state of collapse: No one to help?

Editor - April 4, 2016

On a recent late afternoon the sudden shriek of a siren shocked us in mid-step as we reached the doors at the Lindsborg Post...

Marshall, John

Alvin Sykes: Showing the power of facts and the truth

Editor - March 20, 2016

At long last we have met Alvin Sykes, savior of libraries, healer of disparities, a man whose faith in fellows seems to have no...

Marshall, John

Plan to steal traffic fine reveal state’s desperation

Editor - March 11, 2016

Lindsborg City Administrator Greg DuMars alerts us to yet another plot by legislators desperate to stem a hemorrhage of red ink in the state...

Marshall, John

For the poor in Kansas, a Catch-22 called KanCare

Editor - March 6, 2016

It was once the mark of a good place that government took care of the poor and sick, the elderly, the infirm. But in...

Marshall, John

County-line consolidation, straight from the Mad Hatter

Editor - February 22, 2016

The Alice in Wonderland approach to local schools took on new energy in Topeka recently when Rep. John Bradford introduced a bill for county-line...

Marshall, John

Kansas is home to the rube’s rule

Editor - February 8, 2016

The rube’s rule is new to Kansas politics, granted to legislators too thick-headed to know what they’re doing ‒ and a hick’s pass to...

Marshall, John

Emler’s service is a happy surprise

Editor - February 1, 2016

It was a delight to visit the other day with Jay Emler, the longtime attorney and champion of the foulard bow tie, a principled...

Marshall, John

Kansas becomes a state divided

Editor - January 24, 2016

We now live in a split state, a confederacy of rural and urban interests, of busy cities and their reliant suburbs, and vast, rural...

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