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Thursday, May 17, 2012, 1:30 p.m.

Check out the latest edition of our "30 for Thursday" KU football chat with beat writer Matt Tait.

Thursday, May 10, 2012, 2:00 p.m.

KU football beat writer Matt Tait unveiled this week's "30 for Thursday" KU football chat earlier today.

Wednesday, May 9, 2012, 10:00 a.m.

Lawrence resident Lilly Mason will be available to discuss natural childbirth and placenta consumption. Mason, 33, has been a doula for 10 years and is becoming a certified midwife. She has been teaching childbirth classes since 2005, and she owns a business called Joyful Choice Birth Services, which offers placenta encapsulation, natural birth preparation classes, fertility cycling awareness classes and midwives assistant services. She also has written “Mothercake: A Guide to Making Placenta Remedies.” It provides detailed instructions for making placenta capsules, tincture and salve, and it is available on blurb.com.

Thursday, May 3, 2012, 3:00 p.m.

KU football beat writer Matt Tait will be taking your questions at 3 p.m. on Thursday, May 3.

Thursday, April 26, 2012, 2:00 p.m.

KU football beat writer Matt Tait will be taking your questions at 2 p.m. on Thursday, April 26.

Thursday, April 12, 2012, 2:00 p.m.

KU football beat writer Matt Tait will be taking your questions at 2 p.m. on Thursday, April 12.

Monday, April 2, 2012, 1:00 p.m.

Have a question about the national championship game between Kansas and Kentucky on Monday night? Then Tom Keegan is your guy. Tom will be taking questions from 1-2 p.m. on Monday.

Wednesday, March 28, 2012, 1:00 p.m.

Matt Tait will be taking your questions at 1 p.m. on Wednesday, March 28.

Wednesday, March 21, 2012, 2:00 p.m.

Have a question about KU basketball or football? Send it to Matt, who will be taking questions at 2 p.m. Wednesday.

Wednesday, March 14, 2012, 2:00 p.m.

Lawrence resident Louise Krug will be available at 2 p.m. Wednesday, March 14, to discuss her new book, "Louise: Amended." The book is about a brain bleed she suffered at age 22. It chronicles her life before, during and after a brain surgery that left her with disabilities, including paralysis. The book is available at The Raven bookstore in downtown Lawrence. Krug's now 29 and pursuing a doctorate in creative writing at Kansas University, where she also teaches writing and literature classes part time.

Wednesday, March 14, 2012, 1:30 p.m.

Have a question about KU basketball or football? Send it to Matt, who will be taking questions at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday.

Wednesday, March 7, 2012, 1:30 p.m.

Have a question about KU football or basketball? Then Matt Tait is your guy. Matt will be answering reader questions starting at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday.

Thursday, March 1, 2012, 2:00 p.m.

Just Food is the food bank for Douglas County. In 2011, it distributed $676,503 worth of food, or about 880,000 meals, for free to 84,699 people, a 21 percent increase from a year earlier. Farmer has spent 10 years working for churches, nonprofits and being an advocate for the marginalized. Before returning to his hometown of Lawrence, Farmer was director of community awareness at Project Hope Food Bank in Arkansas.

Thursday, March 1, 2012, 1:30 p.m.

Have a question about KU football? Then KU football beat writer Matt Tait is your guy. Matt will be answering reader questions starting at 1:30 p.m. Thursday.

Wednesday, February 22, 2012, 11:00 a.m.

Lawrence-Douglas County Health Department Director Dan Partridge discussed the department's role in community health. The department is gathering information from the public about its health concerns through focus groups, an online survey and one-on-one interviews so it can do a better job of providing services. Partridge has spent nearly 20 years in public health and became the director of the Lawrence-Douglas County Health Department in 2007. He previously served as director of administrative services for the Reno County Health Department in Hutchinson, where he also served as director of environmental health and as an environmental health sanitarian.