A year ago, as finals week approached for KU business student Tahima Hashim, she and her older sister Atrooba were staring down one of the toughest tests in their lives. They’d recently opened their Shawarma Press franchise at the corner of 10th and New Hampshire, becoming what Shawarma ...
To Bobbie Flory, the leader of the Lawrence Home Builders Association, the city’s plan to create a library of ready-to use housing designs with a fast-tracked approval process makes good sense. But there’s a caveat: It won’t help the city add new housing unless the designs are things ...
For as much as D.K. McDonald’s defense has improved this season, it just can’t seem to find the stops it needs in the most important moments. Whatever momentum it may have accumulated, however much it may have shut down an opposing team’s key players up to a particular point, that just ...
For most of his working life, Wayne McDaniel was all about helping people invest. McDaniel, 70, was a financial planner, and he had a mission statement for that work: “to help people increase their capacity to live and to give.” He also was really interested in health and wellness all his ...
The closest race in Lawrence on Tuesday wasn't for a statewide office, or for a seat in the Statehouse or on the County Commission. Instead, it was a vote on something that Lawrencians had approved in a 70% landslide in two previous elections – the city's transit sales tax. And, if not for ...
If downtown Lawrence seems to have more vacant storefronts than it did a few years ago – and if North Lawrence seems to have a lot more — some new stats from the City of Lawrence say that really is the case. But at least in downtown, one of the biggest vacancies recently took a step toward ...
