There are dinosaurs in Derby. There is soccer in Kansas City. There is modern art in Manhattan.
All those entertainment and tourism projects, plus more than 20 others spread throughout Kansas, are receiving millions in state tax dollars via one of the most unique economic development programs in the country.
In fact, Douglas County is the largest county in Kansas that is not using the program to fund a major ...
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An approximately $300 million redevelopment project at KU’s football stadium has won a key recommendation from Lawrence City Manager Craig Owens, as KU and its development partners are now offering to pay nearly $20 million for other city projects.
KU or the KU Endowment Association is offering to provide the city at least $4 million worth of land to be used for affordable housing ...
A retired general and a retired admiral told a Lawrence crowd Thursday that the U.S. military is superior to its counterpart in China. But, before you salute and wave the flag, also know this: They said it may not matter.
“A sergeant in the U.S. Army does what a colonel in the Chinese army does, and does it better,” said Robert Brown, a retired U.S. Army general who commanded 140,000 American troops as the ...
Robert Gates — the former U.S. Secretary of Defense — was in Lawrence Wednesday to speak at a conference examining the prospect of war with China, which he says is very preventable, by the way.
But to a capacity crowd at the Dole Institute of Politics, Gates caught the attention of the crowd with talk of a different front line that creates plenty of skirmishes in Lawrence and other college towns like it. ...
Story updated at 6:50 p.m. Wednesday, April 30:
The KU Endowment Association is restructuring potentially millions of dollars in scholarships to meet new Trump administration requirements related to diversity, equity and inclusion, the Journal-World has learned.
The restructuring — which the association has begun to communicate through letters to select donors — means, for example, that a scholarship fund ...
Whether it was an impact from tariffs or a tournament, retail sales in Lawrence took a tumble in March, according to the latest report from the state.
The state’s April sales tax report — which primarily measures sales that occurred in March — shows taxable sales in Lawrence dropped by 5.5% compared to the same period a year ago. That was a much greater decline than the state as a whole experienced, with ...
