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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
If you are any type of professor at the University of Kansas, you shall make at least $70,000 per year, recently-released details of a proposed contract between KU and its faculty union show. However, if you already are making that amount, you might not receive anything more than a 1% raise, and that is only guaranteed for the first year of the three-year contract, according to the new documents. As reported ...
Days after an informal online poll resulted in more than a thousand votes of no confidence in his leadership, University of Kansas Chancellor Doug Girod sent his own online message to the university community. Among the themes: Spending on athletics is important, KU has been increasing faculty and staff pay, and the times may be tense but they can still be good. “What comes next for KU will not be simple ...