Lines at polling places were a sure sign advance voting had picked up in Douglas County on Friday, but County Clerk Jamie Shew wants voters to be mindful of a key slowdown as well — mail delivery.
Shew told the Journal-World that he is urging residents with advance ballots to drop them off in person or at a one of the county’s collection boxes rather than putting them in the mail. While Election Day isn’t ...
A stack of recipes, an empty building and fond memories of when he was a leader of the pack in Lawrence’s restaurant scene has set the stage for an unexpected comeback
Lawrence’s once-popular Mass Street Deli is reopening, and yes, original owner Bob Schumm will be the owner and operator. Schumm has been retired from the restaurant business for more than a decade, but said he is raring to get back in the ...
Maybe Lawrence has been the canary in the coal mine.
For much of 2026, we’ve been reporting how Lawrence has been the unfortunate exception to the rule. While the state’s large retail markets were posting gains in the amount of sales taxes they were collecting, Lawrence was not. When we reported on the statistics last month, Lawrence was the only major retail market in the state that had seen its sales tax ...
The number of the day at the Kansas Board of Regents was $25,000.
University of Kansas Chancellor Douglas Girod, along with the presidents of Kansas State and Wichita State, each received a $25,000 raise from the Regents ahead of the upcoming school year.
Girod’s increase was the smallest on a percentage basis, but the boost put the KU leader in rarified air nonetheless. The raise pushed Girod’s total ...
The issue of when elected officials are expected to explain why they voted the way they did doesn’t come up often as a campaign issue.
But the question emerged this week on the campaign trail for the Douglas County Commission. Sitting County Commissioner Patrick Kelly — who is seeking re-election in District No. 1 — sparked the issue after declining to answer a series of questions about why he voted the ...
A top Kansas academic administrator and former president of a private, Catholic university has been chosen as the next chief executive of the Kansas Board of Regents, which oversees KU and the state’s other public higher education institutions.
The Regents on Tuesday voted to name Jennifer Bonds-Raacke the next president and CEO of the Regents system. Bonds-Raacke currently serves as a senior staff member in ...
