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Marshall, John

Storms remind us why we need a federal government

President Obama, the man so many Kansans love to hate, has declared 42 counties major disaster areas in the wake of savage storms that...

When we once admired teachers

Virginia Long was the first teacher I really liked. During my years at Lincoln Grade School, in the 1950s, kindergarten and each of six...

A man for all seasons, and all the wrong reasons

We had planned this week’s Donald Trump Love Thy Neighbor award for Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, who continues his relentless campaign to...

Deanell Reese Tacha: A vivid history comes to Lindsborg

The Kansas Women Attorneys Association meets this week in Lindsborg – for the 26th consecutive year – and again has stretched the measure of...

Walker pulls a ‘Brownback,’ angering his own GOP

Out on the national hustings, Scott Walker may be a darling of the Republican right, but in Wisconsin, where he is governor, he’s in trouble. In the...

Kicking schools: What is ‘substantial?’

Gov. Brownback has continued to insist that his block grant funding plan for local schools was more than adequate in spite of startling evidence that makes...

Wait ‘till next year; this was just a warm-up

Our Legislature will return and with it, the malaise. The Republican majorities this year crafted tax increases to collect a bit more than $300 million, predicting...

Holidays arrive early: A face lift for Garfield!

Garfield Street, between Second and Kansas, has a new, smooth, gleaming surface, a fabulous event for northeast Lindsborg. For years, this had been an ornery...

The clowns run the Fair

Kansas has added a new process to local school finance: groveling. At the governor’s direction, the legislature embedded significant cuts into their block grant edict – one...

A father’s worry for our public schools

We recently received a letter – commentary, a spool of anguish – from Aaron Estabrook, of Manhattan, distressed at Gov. Sam Brownback’s assault on...
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