It was a spring afternoon in June 2012, and Lawrence City Manager David Corliss was spinning a tale before city commissioners. It is a common one in city halls: If you want to follow the growth of a city, follow the sewers.
Hey, no one ever said City Hall tales are sexy. But, they are often expensive.
Sewers are especially so, and Lawrence city commissioners were learning that by the day. Corliss and his ...
In the world of water and sewer utilities, what you can’t see often rules the day — miles and miles of pipes beneath the ground.
Those pipes, some more than a century old, are the most frequent exhibit city officials point to when residents question why water and sewer bills in Lawrence are increasing at rates far greater than inflation. To keep the system efficient and reliable, old pipes and other aged ...
As water and sewer rates are soaring in Lawrence, the whereabouts of $1.8 million of ratepayer funds at City Hall is unclear, a Journal-World investigation has found.
While reviewing years of audited financial statements and budget records in an attempt to learn more about why Lawrence utility bills have been increasing at rates far greater than inflation — last year rates increased by 11% — the ...
Members of the labor union representing faculty members at the University of Kansas have overwhelmingly voted to ratify the union’s first contract with KU.
Voting wrapped up late last week, and the union — United Academics of KU — recently posted on its website that 92% of members voted to ratify the three-year contract.
The organization didn’t release specific vote totals. The union represents about ...
Douglas County officially was on the decline last year.
The county posted a small, but rare, drop in population in 2025, according to new estimates released by the U.S. Census Bureau on Thursday. Douglas County also was unique in one regard: It was the only urban county in the state that posted a decline in population for the year.
The county’s population fell by 19 people, or 0.02%, to a total of 120,920 ...
Local students — ranging from law school students to elementary students — will get a chance to visit in person with a sitting U.S. Supreme Court justice next month.
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor will be visiting the University of Kansas campus on April 6 and April 7, KU’s law school has confirmed.
Sotomayor was invited to campus, as multiple members of the KU community — former provost ...
