- Editorial: Judicial joust May 22, 2013 · 1 comment
- Lawrence High graduation 4 comments
- City commissioner wants state to revoke nightclub's liquor license May 21, 2013 · 15 comments
- House Republican leaders propose 1.5 percent cut to higher education for each of next two fiscal years May 21, 2013 · 11 comments
- Will of the people May 21, 2013 · 11 comments
- City accepts recreation center bids, but won' t proceed with building until Fritzel provides infrastructure costs May 21, 2013 · 10 comments
- Planning Commission recommends approval of Menards store for south Lawrence May 20, 2013 · 63 comments
- Local organizations aim to support tornado victims May 21, 2013 · 5 comments
- Blog: Kansas science and math teachers easily recruited away May 20, 2013 · 50 comments
- Budget provision would block state funding for Common Core standards May 16, 2013 · 79 comments
- Tarik Black strong, physical May 22, 2013
- LHS student earns perfect ACT score May 21, 2013
- Local organizations aim to support tornado victims May 21, 2013
- Planning Commission recommends approval of Menards store for south Lawrence May 20, 2013
- Budget cuts force Head Start to close Edgewood Homes facility May 21, 2013
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- KU baseball gets involved in Moore, Okla., relief effort May 21, 2013
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- Opinion: Wayne Selden sizes up recruits May 21, 2013
Budget provision would block state funding for Common Core standards
"Collaborated" is just another word for "Communism-ated", and I don't need no dadgum College Board or college degree to tell me that.
May 16, 2013 at 8:53 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Planning Commission to debate Menards project Monday amid signs momentum may be turning
Just so you don't think I'm conjuring this out of nothing, Google "menards tif" and "menards abatement". Enough articles in just the last two years, in enough other cities, that it's a modus operandi. I'd be shocked if it didn't happen.
May 16, 2013 at 11:11 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Planning Commission to debate Menards project Monday amid signs momentum may be turning
“I look at that and say ‘gosh, a Menards would be great in bringing some commercial taxes to a community that is going to have shrinking property tax revenues.'” - Farmer
That is, of course, until three months after the rezoning, when Menard's comes in for an abatement on their property tax on the land too. Oh, and redirect some of the sales taxes while we're at it. Which Farmer, Dever, and the crew won't hesitate for a second to bend over for. "That's just how things are done in the new economy... can't lose ground to Lenexa".
May 16, 2013 at 11:01 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
As city prepares to bid recreation center, officials still waiting to receive cost numbers from Fritzel on infrastructure
Are you paying the slightest bit of attention? It's the 'hope and change' annoying liberal gadflies who are raising the most stink about this and were the ones against it in the recent (too late) election. You surely don't think it's still a Boog-n-Rundle kinda commission running things, do you? Because, dopey as you may have considered them, they were smarter than this kind of razzle-dazzle.
May 14, 2013 at 9:59 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
As city prepares to bid recreation center, officials still waiting to receive cost numbers from Fritzel on infrastructure
Bohica.
May 13, 2013 at 6:12 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Dandelions
Even prairie grasses aren't exactly 'native' to Lawrence and Douglas County. 100 miles from here, yes. The 'Kansas of the mind'? Yes. Douglas County? Is naturally a hardwood forest. Leave everything for 50 years and it will look like the undeveloped part of Brook Creek Park, not a Flint Hills prairie.
May 10, 2013 at 7:30 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Wicked Broadband project seeks $500,000 city grant; downtown hotel project seeks adjustment to incentives package; historical society seeks $20k for new exhibit
I think you can be assured that they won't. There was nobody with standing to sue that they were getting the shaft on the library or rec center (other contractors on the latter project, but there was a bidding process of a sort).
If the city gives an unencumbered nickel to Montgomery, AT&T and WOWWAY will have lawsuits filed before the end of that commission meeting.
May 10, 2013 at 4:26 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Wicked Broadband project seeks $500,000 city grant; downtown hotel project seeks adjustment to incentives package; historical society seeks $20k for new exhibit
Everyone who saw this coming, feel free to send in another $10 to a project with no 'here's how many people we need in neighborhood X' nor any timeline.
But, you can be pretty sure he'll be at city hall again, real soon now.
May 10, 2013 at 1:14 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Lawrence cyclist seriously injured in collision with vehicle
(not, btw, that I'd recommend street-riding on 6th)
May 9, 2013 at 6:56 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Lawrence cyclist seriously injured in collision with vehicle
It's also worth pointing out that it's not just a 'sidewalk'. The south side of 6th is, in theory anyway, a paved 'multipurpose trail' (okay, fancy term for a wide sidewalk, but an officially designated bicycle facility) between Monterey Way and the SLT. Like the paths on the side of Clinton Parkway. So the cyclist was doubly in the right to be there.
That said, such paths are statistically more dangerous for cyclists, mile-for-mile ridden, than street-riding. You can't be too complacent just because you're on a semi-separated path.
May 9, 2013 at 6:31 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )