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Financial talk in City Hall was gloomy for most of 2008, but the talk didn’t match the numbers when it came to sales tax collections. According to recently released numbers, the city saw a respectable 3.8 percent increase in sales tax collections in 2008. In fact, sales tax collections will ...
Confusion still reigns over how many candidates it will take to trigger a primary in the upcoming City Commission elections. But it is beginning to look a bit more likely that it will take 11 or more, not 10 or more as city leaders once thought. If you remember, there ...
There’s all sorts of minutiae that a man can ride to fame. But who would have ever thought a hedgehog would carry an 11-year-old Lawrence boy to national prominence?But a recent story in the Journal-World — and on 6News and our sister Topeka station KTKA 49 ABC News — about ...
News and notes from the Lawrence development scene:• Westside residents soon will have another option to satisfy their sweet tooth. Eileen’s Colossal Cookies, a small franchise of cookie stores, plans to open at Sixth and Wakarusa in January. Details on the exact location at the intersection weren’t listed on the ...
On a night when city commissioners began to talk about the future of the city’s living wage ordinance, they also took some less noticeable action on the subject. The city approved a five year contract with MV Transportation to continue running the city’s public transit system. One of the many ...
We're counting down the top five stories on various topics today as part of an annual recap of the top stories of the year we'll do later this month. Join the conversation by letting us know what we missed or what stories you think are important by posting a comment, ...
City commissioners have decided it is not smart to talk about the proposed Smart Code in the middle of a snowstorm. Commissioners have pulled consideration of the Smart Code from their meeting Tuesday night. They’ve rescheduled the issue for their Jan. 6 meeting. Several groups that have concerns with the ...
Nationally, November housing starts fell to their lowest level in at least 50 years, the U.S. Commerce Department reported Thursday. New numbers from the city’s Neighborhood Resources division show that Lawrence did its part to drive the numbers down. Builders in the city started just three new homes and two ...
The controversial improvements near Lawrence High School have another small hurdle to clear at the Lawrence-Douglas County Planning Commission next week. Planning commissioners will be considering the preliminary plat and a variance request for the portions of the improvements near the former Centennial School building at 2145 La. The Planning ...
Here’s a name to keep an eye on as you to try to handicap the upcoming City Commission elections — IMpac. No, it not the name of some exotic candidate. It’s the name of a new organization that plans to become Lawrence’s newest political action committee. Jacob Beaumont, a 24-year ...
A downtown mural, a shot put and possibly a few million dollars in taxpayer-funded incentives: That's either one really strange pre-St. Patrick's Day party, or else it is the current stew of issues brewing at Lawrence City Hall. Indeed, there are several interesting issues slated for the Lawrence City Commission's ...
My bladder already is doing cartwheels. A new business is coming to downtown Lawrence, and it will bring with it 1,100 varieties of soda to Massachusetts Street. Mass Street Soda plans to open by St. Patrick's Day at 1103 Massachusetts St., the vacant storefront just south of Englewood Florist. Self-described ...
There is no denying that Lawrence is extremely health conscious. It has long been proven that chips and salsa probably is the healthiest dish you could ever hope to eat. You can eat as much as you want because it is entirely made of vegetables. (They're called CORN chips, people.) ...
A deal has been struck to bring a new grocer to Lawrence. And it is not coming to downtown. Not North Lawrence, either. Instead, it's slated for what has become the city's new grocery magnet — Sixth and Wakarusa. Plans have been filed at City Hall for a 27,000-square-foot building ...
North Lawrence's skyscrapers aren't going anywhere. In case you aren't familiar with North Lawrence's chic skyscraper district, it also is known as the Ottawa Co-op grain elevators at North Third and Locust streets. And some of you have been worried that their time may be limited because demolition crews have ...
Of all the days to misplace my three-foot long trumpet . . . here goes anyway. Hear ye, hear ye: The King lives. The King lives. The King lives. Let us rejoice with Whoppers, fries, and copious amounts of breakfast sandwiches in defiance of the witch doctors known as cardiologists. ...
You have heard of Wi-Fi. (I know I have. It takes a good part of my morning to get the RadioShack Tandy 1000 hooked up to it.) And perhaps you even have a few brain cells that survived the 1970s and still remember the phrase Hi-Fi. But now there is ...
Ike and Hoover may end up having a say in whether the city of Lawrence and Kansas University move ahead with a new convention center. No, Dwight D. Eisenhower and Herbert Hoover aren't cryogenically frozen in the basement of Lawrence City Hall. (I'm 80 percent certain of that.) At Lawrence ...
Maybe by the next Winter Olympics I won't have to convert my kitchen floor into an ice rink to participate in the beautiful sport of figure skating. [As we reported in December][1], leaders with Lawrence Parks and Recreation had some interest in a downtown, outdoor ice skating rink. Well, the ...
There's a $200,000 project underway to install solar panels in Lawrence, and you might be surprised who is behind it — the operator of the large coal-fired power plant just outside of town. Topeka-based Westar Energy is installing 160 solar panels on its maintenance facility and service center at 746 ...
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