City approves development agreement, tax abatement for $25M Rock Chalk Park recreation center

Meanwhile, one corner of 27th and Iowa remains empty and the old Plum Tree building is being covered with graffiti and plywood. Olive Garden couldn't get some tax breaks from our city to build there. Oh, wait. I forgot. I live on the wrong side of town!

March 6, 2013 at 5:18 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Wetlands advocates look for new ways to stop construction of South Lawrence Trafficway as legal battle ends

Give it up. Things happen. Like Westar taking all the trees out of my backyard! Besides, the folks who are against this always suddenly come up with some new eco/spiritual/historic reason to oppose it at the last minute, which just makes them look less believable, and quite silly, as the years go on. By the way, I think the comment about Native Americans having a greater sense of right and wrong is hilarious. But nice piece of self-promotion on the book.

October 14, 2012 at 7:44 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Lawrence City Commission sold on trying donation meter plan

I agree with cheeseburger on this. When I read the first article, I thought to myself "So is each of the guys who always asks me for money when I walk downtown going to get his own meter? Where are they going to put them all?" This is a great idea for ORGANIZED groups who are in need of money, but the guy who jumps out in front of me and chases my son because he doesn't like the t-shirt he's wearing is not going to be replaced by a meter.

July 20, 2011 at 6:25 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Does your neighborhood need traffic calming devices?

We live on a street that is two blocks long. By the time people get to our house they're driving about 40. They really need a speed bump in the middle of the street.

July 18, 2011 at 8:10 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Lawrence residents recall how they beat the heat in the days before air conditioning

My wife and I were discussing the "no a/c" condition as we read this article. Both of us grew up in Kansas and neither of us had a/c. Not even in our cars. We took a trip to Colorado once in a '63 Galaxy 500 which had no a/c. And it had vinyl seats! "Ouch" on the legs when you wore shorts. In the summer we would sleep on the living room floor and my parents would put a box fan against the screen door to pull in some cooler air. Fortunately we lived in a basement house so it was cooler in the summer and warmer in the winter due to being surrounded on three sides by earth. Basically, we just toughed it out. If we had to, we went to my grandparents' house up the road. They had a window a/c unit in their house. Still, I often find it funny that I complain when the a/c is not working well in a store or something. When did I become a hot weather whip?

July 16, 2011 at 8:27 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Do you bag your grass clippings?

We bag our clippings sometimes. I wish the LJW would look more closely at the choices of their polls. Often it is not a yes/no kind of thing, but they set it up like that. Sometimes we bag our clippings for use in our composte pit that we have. Sometimes we let the clippings fly as shade for the grass roots.

July 9, 2011 at 12:02 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Lawrence community devastated, shocked by closing of its SRS office

snap - Yes, they do. We haven't seen the worst of the economy issue in this town or in this country. Everybody get ready! Just waiting for the debts to be called in . . . . .

July 1, 2011 at 1:17 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Lawrence community devastated, shocked by closing of its SRS office

Too bad the folks losing their jobs couldn't have appiled at the M & M Mars plant . . . . . or the American Eagle warehouse, or the Wal-Mart warehouse, or Olive Garden, or . . . . .

July 1, 2011 at 1:04 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Town Talk: Lawrence's efforts to land Mars; mini-golf not in K-10 course's immediate future; home sales, building permits struggle in May

Once again our town's inability to decide what it wants/is leaves us with no new jobs. Meanwhile, the property tax prepares to increase again. Lawrence - do you want to be a hipster/nature-lovin' town whose business decisions are base on what way the PC wind is blowing? Or do you want jobs for your residents? We need to start looking at the bigger picture of what is going on economically IN THE WORLD, not just downtown or out west. I don't like the idea of incentives either, but we need jobs.

July 1, 2011 at 11:51 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Similar experience on our first time there. Had friends in from out of town. The place was busy and there was a line to get in. We weren't even done with our meal when they brought the checks out to us. Then the wait staff kept coming over every few minutes and taking away any dish they thought we were done with. Kind of rude. Loved the food, but felt they were trying to rush us through. I know how they can handle this! Get a bigger building and more staff.

June 29, 2011 at 9:52 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )