To keep its Gateway project on schedule, the University of Kansas wants Lawrence to issue STAR bonds and other incentives for the project now, and city leaders on Tuesday will vote on whether to do that. At its meeting on Tuesday, the Lawrence City Commission will be asked to consider ...
An election that will decide the winners for everything from U.S. senator to governor to county commissioners to township officials is entering its final stages. Polls will be open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Tuesday. The final day of voting follows a multi-week period of advance voting. In ...
I think Lawrence might be the most compassionate community in Kansas. Think about it: Local government created its own mental health center to provide the compassion the state’s understaffed mental healthcare system hasn’t provided. Lawrence has not one, but two, tiny home projects ...
A mistake was made, and what ensued was not a great look for local government. Last week, the city of Lawrence’s Affordable Housing Advisory Board met to begin the process of awarding about $700,000 of taxpayer funds to affordable housing projects. Step No. 1 of the process is to determine ...
A screening of “Beetlejuice” that a local movie club was planning at Oak Hill Cemetery this weekend has been canceled – but not because it broke any cemetery rules. Rather, it’s because what the city approved was different from – and more limited than – what the event was turning ...
I can’t seem to get Costco off my mind. The thoughts are about $80 million deep. As I wrote last week, that’s a conservative estimate of how much money the store — which opens in northwest Lawrence on Oct. 29 — will send to the state of Kansas in sales tax dollars over the next 20 ...