Chad Lawhorn
Chad Lawhorn covers business and economic issues in the Lawrence area.
Recent stories
- Wal-Mart nearly ready to build city’s new store
- City Commission tonight expected to approve roadwork related to project
- May 13, 2008
- It will be the summer of Wal-Mart. Leaders with the world’s largest retailer have been granted a city building permit to begin construction on its $9.5 million store at the northwestern corner of Sixth Street and Wakarusa Drive.
- T for taxi?
- Commissioner looking into alternatives to bus system
- May 12, 2008
- It is classic Lawrence water cooler talk, frequent fodder for morning coffee clubs or big fish in the sea of anonymity known as message boards.
- Heart of city getting brunt of roadwork
- May 11, 2008
- The heart of Lawrence will have heartburn this summer.
- It’s that time of year
- Biggest seasonal road hassle near Lawrence High
- May 11, 2008
- There will be all the normal sounds of road construction in Lawrence this summer — the rumbles of road graders, the rat-tat-tat of jackhammers and the rough talk of men in hard hats. But this construction season, one sound may drown out all the rest.
- 6News video: City considers tax for T
- May 9, 2008
- With future funding of the Lawrence transit system up in the air, one city commissioner is ready to begin looking at unique alternatives. 6News reporter Chad Lawhorn is in the News Center with more.
- T facing fight for survival
- Sales tax vote could be one way to save system
- May 7, 2008
- It became clearer Tuesday that the city’s financially struggling public transit system is in a fight for its survival.
- Final federal permit for SLT issued
- May 7, 2008
- For the first time in more than a decade, supporters of the South Lawrence Trafficway have all the necessary federal permits to build the road through the Baker Wetlands. And once again, opponents of the nearly 25-year old project have all they need to head back to court.
- Bus system’s fate may rest on sales tax
- May 6, 2008
- A new plan has emerged to have two city sales tax elections in November, with one perhaps determining whether the city’s financially struggling bus system survives.
- 6News video: Greensburg: One year later
- May 4, 2008
- It's been one year since a deadly tornado wiped a small kansas town off the map. But those 12 months have brought residents back together. 6News reporter Chad Lawhorn visited Greensburg and describes the new spirit surrounding the community.
- A new frontier: Pioneer spirit pervades Greensburg one year after tornado
- Stories of opportunity, skepticism, hope
- May 4, 2008
- Travis Barnes was not looking back. When Barnes, now 28, graduated from Greensburg High School in 1998 he grabbed his diploma and left for Kansas State University. You could have filled a Greyhound bus with kids just like him who planned to leave the flat farmfields and withering economy behind.
Recent photos
Marty Kennedy and his wife Patty show off their Jayhawk float.
Darcy Stefanik and Alexis Kruse, juniors at KU, have been waiting outside Quinton's Bar and Grill in downtown Lawrence since 7 a.m. Quinton's will seat people for tonight's NCAA national championship game starting at 4 p.m.
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