The “top of the Hill” used to be a place to buy your books. Soon, it will be a place to build your business. (In between, it was a place to bulge your belt, if you recall the days when it was a bakery.) We’ve reported a few times over the last few months that the University of Kansas intends to turn the site that used to house the Jayhawk Bookstore at 1420 Crescent Road — near the top of Mt. Oread — ...
One of Kansas City’s largest car dealers has come to Lawrence, and it has taken over one of the city’s busiest and most scrutinized dealerships. Cable Dahmer — the owner of eight dealerships in the Kansas City and Topeka metros — has completed a purchase of Lawrence Kia. In recent days, signs on the Kia dealership at 1225 E. 23rd St. were swapped out to include the Cable Dahmer name. Cable Dahmer ...
The University of Kansas has won a $60,000 grant that may help create a new set of classes that combine religion and health care. The two-year grant from the nonprofit group Interfaith America will help KU’s Department of Religious Studies form new relationships with health care providers, which in turn could inform a new academic program that KU hopes to create. “We’re hoping to start a religion, ...
Hardcore football fans know that offenses sometimes try to “take the top off” of a defense by running deep passing routes. You don’t have to be very hardcore, though, to recognize another “take the top off” strategy being employed at KU’s football stadium currently. Crews are literally taking the top off of the stadium. Indeed, demolition work has begun on the east grandstands at David Booth ...
Past generations talked of how there used to be a passageway through Lawrence known as Iowa Street. At some point, though, it became consumed by orange construction cones and single-file traffic, and was traveled only by the absent-minded or those souls who had lost all concept of time and space. But, as we’ve reported, construction on Iowa Street is now complete, and traffic is once again free flowing. As ...
A plan to tighten the state’s tenure system for university professors began to receive pushback from academic groups Wednesday, but the Kansas Board of Regents largely stayed silent about what direction it intends to move the policy. Instead, it pushed any votes on the matter to the board’s January meeting, while board members said they wanted to show state legislators and the general public that the ...