John Taylor Editor
John Taylor is group editor for World Company weekly newspapers and editor of the Shawnee Dispatch. Taylor previously had worked from 1988 to 2004 at the Lawrence Journal-World, where he had been news editor since 1994. A 1982 graduate of the University of Kansas, Taylor also has worked for the Coffeyville Journal.
Recent stories
- Holland seeking name recognition in governor’s race
- October 28, 2010
- Around Kansas, Tom Holland is spreading his message and seeking enough name recognition to propel him to a four-year term in the Governor’s Office The Baldwin City Democrat isn’t lacking name recognition in his own hometown, though.
- Federal, state officials lead charge against detainee transfers to Fort Leavenworth
- 11:40 a.m., August 3, 2009 Updated 03:07 p.m.
- Half of the state’s congressional delegation showed for a Monday morning news conference to protest plans to possibly move suspected terrorist detainees from Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to Fort Leavenworth.
Recent photos
The new Kindle Fire is among e-readers now on the market.
Visitors to the Maple Leaf Festival in Baldwin City stroll underneath a canopy of colorful leaves on the Baker University campus. The Maple Leaf Festival is staged annually on the third weekend of October in Baldwin City in southern Douglas County.
A worker installs seating in the new LIVESTRONG Sporting Park in Kansas City, Kan. The new, $200 million stadium opens this month as the home of soccer’s Sporting Kansas City club.
Saturday's Baldwin City Chamber of Commerce Annual Awards Dinner featured a keynote speech by Kansas football coach Turner Gill, right. After the dinner, Gill posed for pictures with several of the dinner attendees, including Cyndi Dorathy.
Diana Hockman, Shawnee, tends to a coneflower plant in the Country Garden at Shawnee Town. As the spring planting season nears, Leavenworth County master gardener Joy Kromer and her husband, Bill, provide tips below on spring and summer gardening.
