Here in Lawrence and Douglas County, we’ve been waiting on the impact from Panasonic’s new $4 billion, 4,000-job electric vehicle battery plant that is under construction in nearby De Soto. Parts of Lawrence are just a 20-minute drive from the massive plant, and most of Eudora is less ...

When it comes to minigolf in Lawrence, there’s nothing small about interest levels. “If you read any Lawrence Facebook group, about every 30 days there is a question why Lawrence doesn’t have minigolf,” Lawrence entertainment entrepreneur Matt Baysinger told me. But there is a ...

There is money moving to Lawrence, a new report finds. I can make a neighborhood suggestion: My wallet. But no, it is moving to bank accounts, and the latest report from the FDIC — the entity that insures bank deposits — shows Lawrence is gaining bank deposits at a greater rate than ...

One of Lawrence’s larger credit unions has taken over the operations of one of the community’s smaller credit unions. Envista Federal Credit Union has recently begun serving the members of the Wakarusa Valley Credit Union. If you are not familiar with Wakarusa Valley Credit Union, it had ...

Her position as chair of the Douglas County Commission is what got Karen Willey a seat on the stage Wednesday for a groundbreaking ceremony to expand the western leg of the South Lawrence Trafficway to four lanes. But a piece of county business isn’t what first popped to mind for Willey ...

We’re entering the fourth quarter. The game is on the line. We now know what we need to gain to grasp victory. One, long . . . percentage point. (No, not a yard. This is not football. Why do you have a mouthpiece in?) We are talking about Lawrence sales tax collections, and indeed we ...