Special coverage
LJWorld.com/Green
Welcome to our ongoing project, LJWorld.com/Green. Here you can find tips on how to make your life environmentally friendly and read stories about what others in the community are doing to live a more green lifestyle. Eat local, conserve resources, be green.
In depth
- Q&A: LMH still enforces its smoke-free policy
- February 8, 2010
- Lawrence Memorial Hospital still has a smoke-free policy on its campus. It encourages people to call 505-3028 if they see someone not following the policy.
- Neighbors complain salvage yard a blight on east-side residential area
- February 8, 2010
- The heavy equipment shakes their houses. Trash constantly blows through their front yards, and noise echoes through the nearby salvage yard where seven fires have erupted since June 2004.
- Walking in a sanitation worker’s shoes
- February 7, 2010
- In the fraternity of Lawrence trash truck crews, it is known as the dog feces story.
- Around and about in local business
- February 7, 2010
- Local business news for February 7, 2010.
- Mortgages
- February 7, 2010
- The Douglas County register of deeds recorded 51 mortgages in the weekly period ended Thursday. Breakdown by dollar value:
- Frustrated job seekers calling it quits
- Unemployed workers deciding to return to school, start own businesses
- February 7, 2010
- Many jobless people have reached a conclusion that captures the depth of the unemployment crisis: Looking for a job is a waste of time.
- Toyota drivers pull in for repair
- Prius reportedly recalled in Japan
- February 7, 2010
- Responding to two recalls and facing the prospect of another one, Toyota dealers across the country were repairing thousands of cars Saturday, the first weekend day that many drivers had a chance to take action.
- Toyota president apologizes; no recall issued for Prius
- February 6, 2010
- Toyota’s president emerged from seclusion Friday to apologize and address criticism that the automaker mishandled a crisis over sticking gas pedals.
- Newspapers chart digital course amid uncertain times
- 02:18 p.m., February 5, 2010 Updated 02:18 p.m.
- Across the country, newspaper companies have found themselves under intense economic pressures, brought on both by the extended recession and the emergence of new communications technologies.
- Lawrence residents now find higher sales taxes in certain shopping areas around town
- Lawrence has 2 areas where items cost a bit more
- February 5, 2010
- You may think you know what sales tax you’re paying, but you may very well be wrong. The days of one sales tax applying for an entire city are quickly disappearing.
- Walgreens to offer free blood glucose testing
- February 5, 2010
- Walgreens is offering free blood glucose testing Feb. 5-18 at its Take Care Clinics.
- Foreman: To regain its punch, boxing in U.S. needs a hero
- February 5, 2010
- Former heavyweight boxing champion George Foreman visited Kansas University on Thursday, along with George Kimball, a boxing journalist and KU alumnus, as part of a boxing symposium at KU.
- Owners of Toyotas remaining loyal despite recall
- February 5, 2010
- Gus McClelland’s driving his fifth Toyota these days, and is poised to buy a sixth.
- Smaller incomes may yield bigger tax savings
- February 5, 2010
- For millions of Americans filing their 2009 tax returns, things could be vastly different this time.
- Toyota woes mount as Prius recall considered
- February 5, 2010
- Damage to Toyota’s image is growing by the day with the automaker now considering a U.S. and Japanese recall of Prius hybrids — the vehicle that’s a symbol of its technological prowess and green car ambitions.
- Farmers’ market mulls ban on live animals
- February 5, 2010
- The Downtown Lawrence Farmers’ Market is considering banning all live animals for the 2010 season.
- MartinLogan eliminates production from Lawrence facility, moves some jobs to Canada
- February 4, 2010
- MartinLogan Ltd., a Lawrence-based designer and maker of high-end audio speakers, is moving its on-site production work to a larger plant in Canada, a move that will eliminate 12 jobs in Lawrence.
- Lawrence’s Sacred Journey closed, under investigation by federal officials
- Store has been the center of K2 sales in the area
- 11:37 a.m., February 4, 2010 Updated 04:49 p.m.
- Lawrence’s Sacred Journey — a store at the center of the K2 controversy in Kansas — was shut down on Thursday, while a federal raid was conducted inside the business.
- Development that caters to retirees planned in west Lawrence
- Project would cater to city’s independent retirees
- February 4, 2010
- A national developer of retirement communities is seeking to win approval for a $10 million project near Sixth Street and Folks Road in West Lawrence.
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