The Lawrence-Douglas County Planning Commission meeting on Wednesday evening became frightening at City Hall. Longtime Lawrence architect Allen Belot collapsed during the meeting from an apparent heart attack, shortly after making a presentation to the commission. Several members of the ...
Sitting around my KU football tailgate this fall, there were some common questions: 1. Is Jalon Daniels healthy? 2. Why can’t they make a paper plate that adequately holds my 4 pounds of nachos? 3. When will KU start tearing down houses north of the football stadium for its expansion plans? ...
At a recent banquet for the 125-year anniversary of Kansas basketball, KU junior Jalen Wilson was on his way out the door when an older gentleman grabbed him for a quick chat. The man was Ron Kellogg, widely regarded as one of the best pure shooters in Kansas basketball history, and he had a ...
Homebuyers, for the most part, are doing their share to battle rising Lawrence home prices. For the third time in four years, home sales in Lawrence have fallen. It still wasn’t enough, though. The median selling price of Lawrence homes posted a double-digit percentage increase in 2022. ...
Let’s do some news and notes from around town, with a crimson and blue tint. — There’s another sign that the University of Kansas is serious about becoming a magnet for cybersecurity researchers and companies, and this latest one comes from Colorado. KU Innovation Park — the ...
UPDATED 9:50 A.M. JAN. 17, 2023 Let’s do some news and notes from around town: — You’ve had about five years to get your Danish degree at the University of Kansas. No, I’m not talking about the language. I’m talking about the flaky, fruit filled Danishes sold at McLain’s Market ...
Although they amounted to little more than a whisper around Lawrence, there had been questions about the future of Kansas quarterback Jalon Daniels. Would he go pro? Would he enter the transfer portal? Did he want to return to his home state of California to finish his college career? On ...
Let’s do some news and notes about a couple of places around town. One is a place where businesses time and again try to locate but can’t, and the second is a spot that is proving to be a difficult place for a business to remain open. First, the much-sought-after spot. I’m talking about ...
There are a couple of ways to get a Nebraskan in Lawrence excited. One, tell them they are missing a row of kernels on their corn cob hat, or two, tell them that Lawrence has a Runza restaurant. The fast-food chain that features a stuffed sandwich with a blend of meat, spices, cabbage and ...
A Lawrence company that has been an international leader in the printing of scholarly and academic journals has been purchased by a larger, Minnesota-based publishing firm. Brainerd, Minn.-based CJK Group Inc. has purchased Lawrence’s Allen Press, but the company said it plans to continue ...
You can’t quite call it a record-breaking year, but you can certainly say that Lawrence shoppers broke out their wallets in a big way in 2022. Now, the question is whether those shoppers are just plain broke heading into 2023. The city’s retail sales tax collections in 2022 were up 8% ...
A loss by Connecticut last week paved the way for the Kansas men’s basketball to jump a spot to No. 3 in the latest Associated Press poll. The Jayhawks survived a scare of their own last week, holding off Oklahoma State by two in a thrilling game at Allen Fieldhouse. Kansas has not lost ...
Throughout the 2022 season, Kansas football coach Lance Leipold was asked repeatedly about the significance of the Jayhawks’ improbable and faster-than-expected turnaround. Over and over, from about Week 3 through Wednesday night in Memphis, reporters asked Leipold to sum up what six wins, ...
A liberal Democrat may be the biggest winner with the new five-district Douglas County Commission map that was approved this week. The biggest loser may be a group of rural residents who thought they were sending a message that they didn’t care for this current county commission and wanted ...
The wheels are officially turning on a nearly $125 million City of Lawrence project. And, there really are a lot of wheels involved with this one. City officials recently filed for a special use permit that will allow the city to build its new “field operations campus” — perhaps better ...
Make room in the nest, Firebirds and Jayhawks. In the world of Lawrence mascots, the Kaw — the feathered mascot of the Perry-Lecompton school district — may soon demand some space. For several years now, Lawrence technically has been a city that has two public school districts: the ...
Let the grocery guessing games begin (and, no, this one doesn’t involve what the heck am I supposed to do with kale.) Instead, KU Endowment officials will have the minds of shoppers wondering about what new grocery company is interested in coming to Lawrence. An Endowment leader has ...
A little more than 11 weeks after leaving David Booth Kansas Memorial Stadium in an ambulance following a hip injury in KU’s win over Iowa State, Kansas running back Daniel Hishaw appears to be on the brink of a return. “He has progressed,” Kotelnicki said of the redshirt sophomore from ...
After dropping two spots in the Associated Press Top 25 following their trouncing of Missouri a week ago, the Kansas men’s basketball team made up for it by jumping four spots in this week’s poll after pounding Indiana on Saturday. Kansas, which has won four consecutive games by an ...
During the height of the pandemic, the city of Lawrence spent nearly $250,000 of federal money to purchase three mobile trailers that provided flush toilets, hot showers and laundry facilities. In late 2020, those trailers seemed like they could be a lifesaver in a world that had turned to ...
