City commissioners to consider final approvals for Menards project

“But all of the conversations I’ve had about trying to steer companies to what we think are better locations out west have fallen on deaf ears,” Dever said. “They tell us that they’re not interested in being pioneers. I don’t think they’re going to be interested in that area until we have more development out there.”

Sounds like a classic cache-22.

To get more development out there, you need businesses to locate there, but businesses wont locate there because there isn't more development.

June 14, 2013 at 5:18 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Power restored, no life-threatening injuries, in Wednesday night accident near Eudora

Westbound lanes were shut down, too. I was driving home from work in Lenexa and had to take a scenic detour over country roads and two railroad crossings. Ended up on 15th Street.

June 13, 2013 at 1:16 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Cable outage reported in West Lawrence

And nothing of value was lost.

May 17, 2013 at 12:04 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Lawrence man punched in face by stranger on Massachusetts Street

This reads like one of those headlines from the 100 year old story archives. "Man punched on Massachusetts Street" only it wasn't a dispute over a horse (or maybe it was, they didn't tell us much about this woman he was trying to talk to).

Hey, LJW, I hear one of those newfangled automobiles stalled on 23rd Street. Better grab your notepads and get out there.

April 26, 2013 at 2:04 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

migration test 1

This has as much investigative content as most LJWorld stories I've read as of late.

January 9, 2013 at 11:56 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

City condemns 24-unit apartment building on West 26th Street, issues eviction notices

I find this comment really amusing, since generally college students are supposed to be the poor ones. But I know what you really meant was "college students who have their well-off parents paying their way".

October 12, 2012 at 6:49 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Town Talk: Local Burger looking for new Lawrence location; local veggie burger firm signs national deal with Whole Foods; homeless shelter update; lots of numbers on proposed rec complex

LOL @ Kickstarter fund for Local Burger.

If it wasn't enough that every business wants a 10-year tax abatement, now they expect everyone to pay for the actual restaurant for them as well.

August 3, 2012 at 6:35 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

10th Circuit Court of Appeals upholds state's approved route of South Lawrence Trafficway through the Baker Wetlands

I believe they have 90 days to file for the Supreme Court to hear the case. I might be wrong though since I got that information by reading the article.

July 10, 2012 at 4:21 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Marriage threats

I think he already made his level of competence clear with that comment about making divorces unobtainable "no matter how dysfunctional, unhappy or unfulfilling the marriage". Yeaaaah, that will certainly help lower instances of spousal abuse and improve the home lives of children in those families...

May 18, 2012 at 7:36 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Look! Up in the sky! It's Supermoon! Due Saturday

"But no matter how far away a full moon is, it's not going to make people kill themselves or others, commit other crimes, get admitted to a psychiatric hospital or do anything else that popular belief suggests, a psychologist says."

That's funny. I thought statistics showed there is in fact an uptick in crime during full moons.

May 5, 2012 at 1:04 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )