There will be pomp, there will be circumstance, and, of course, there will be the walk down the Hill when the University of Kansas’ commencement ceremony takes place on Sunday. But there will be something else this year: A big screen for a big day. KU’s commencement ceremony, just like last year, will take place in the partially renovated David Booth Kansas Memorial Stadium, which remains under ...
With tariffs and trade wars creating worries of extraordinary cost increases in households, students at the University of Kansas are likely to face a fairly ordinary 3% increase in tuition for the next school year. It may be everybody else on campus who wants to buckle up for the unexpected. “The amount of uncertainty is unprecedented,” Jeff DeWitt, KU’s chief financial officer, told the Kansas Board ...
My Spanish is spotty, but I think Cinco de Mayo means “five more tacos.” Actually, my certainty of that translation is somewhere south of cinco percent. (I think . . . although math is kind of spotty too.) But what I do know is that before, on and after May 5, I ate a lot of tacos. I don’t think I was alone, so it shouldn’t be a surprise that a new taco shop has opened in Lawrence. This one is a true ...
Plans to convert a nearly 180-acre site at the South Lawrence Trafficway and Iowa Street into a major retail, housing and entertainment center are likely nearing a key approval, a development representative told the Journal-World Thursday. That’s a different message than you may have picked up on if you simply were looking at the paperwork at Lawrence City Hall. There, the paperwork shows the development ...
OK, old-timer, maybe you did have a route to school that was uphill both ways. But I know there is one challenge you didn’t have: Today’s housing market. Thank your lucky stars. A new report shows that an average income-earning household in Lawrence that is looking to buy an average-priced home in Lawrence would need to make a 57% down payment on that house in order to be able to reasonably afford the ...
Let’s take a spin around town with some news and notes. — If you spin enough, you are going to need some new tires (and they’re helpful in dodging Lawrence’s army of orange construction cones too.) Well, there’s news that a longtime tire dealer in town is expanding. Plans have been filed at City Hall for K’s Tire Sales & Service to expand at its location at 930 E. 27th St. Plans call for a ...