News and notes from around town:
— It has been my experience that an overly-stuffed closet can create several things: delays in the morning wardrobe selection, grumblings from your housemates, and the occasional avalanche that leaves you temporarily trapped under 1980s memorabilia that almost certainly will fund your retirement (despite what the grumblers say.)
If that stuffed closet is in downtown ...
The more than $100 million that Douglas County has kept in reserve accounts and rainy day funds were the subject of a barrage of audience questions directed at Commissioner Patrick Kelly at a Sunday evening candidate forum.
Kelly, who is locked in a Democratic primary battle as he seeks a third term on the commission, told the crowd he was “happy” to speak about the dollars, which are called fund balances ...
Multiple candidates for the Douglas County Commission on Sunday expressed concern that the county administrator was overstepping her bounds, with one sitting commissioner going so far as to say the administrator had misdirected her on occasion.
The topic of whether county commissioners were independent enough of the county administrator and county staff members ended up being an issue candidates came back to ...
After a nearly 20-year absence, there once again will be rocking and rolling on the Hill at the University of Kansas campus.
KU leaders on Friday announced they are restarting a once-popular annual concert event known as Day on the Hill, which in its inaugural year in 1992 featured a little band named Pearl Jam. This year, multiple Grammy-winning band Turnstile will be the headliner for an evening of music on ...
With about half the year in the books, a story about the Lawrence economy is beginning to emerge: Brick and mortar stores are slow, ‘buy now’ buttons are busy, and City Hall budget-makers are holding on.
Lawrence is performing worse than any other major retail market in the state when it comes to traditional sales tax collections, but is the growth leader when it comes to the special type of tax charged for ...
UPDATED: 10:50 A.M. JUNE 26
Lawrence-based Laird Noller Auto Group landed on a relatively small list earlier this year, but not one any business seeks to make. Laird Noller was one of 97 auto dealer groups in the entire country that received a formal warning letter from the Federal Trade Commission regarding deceptive pricing issues.
In a move that flew under our radar screen, the FTC in March announced that ...
