The top two vote-winners in the recent Lawrence City Commission election promised a group of home builders Friday that change indeed is coming to Lawrence. The most visible sign of it, they suggested, will be a lot more growth for the community. “What has been said to me is that we probably will have one of the most pro-growth commissions that you’ve seen in a very, very long time,” City ...
As KU says it has a bed shortage for its record high enrollments, a Lawrence developer has an idea for how to turn approximately 40 bedrooms near the edge of campus into more than 300. But he’s going to need to turn a former garden center property in central Lawrence into a parking lot to make it work. Plans have been filed at City Hall to turn the former Sunrise Garden Center property at 15th and Learnard ...
Kansas may become one of the tougher states for university professors to maintain their tenure status, if an idea to tighten the state’s tenure policy is implemented, the Kansas Board of Regents was told Wednesday. “If the proposed changes were implemented, this would be one of the most robust processes in the country,” University of Kansas Chancellor Douglas Girod told the Regents. Tenure is an ...
Natural gas bills in parts of far east Lawrence and all of Eudora may increase by more than 11%, but state regulators first want to hear from the public about the proposed increases by Atmos Energy. The Kansas Corporation Commission will hold a public hearing next month to receive comments about the proposed rate increase for Atmos Energy. The hearing is set for 6 p.m. on Dec. 1 at Regnier Hall on the KU ...
Many maintenance workers at the University of Kansas are set to get a 4% raise, and some may get more as KU works to bring wages closer to what the private sector pays. The Kansas Board of Regents on Wednesday is expected to approve a new contract between KU and the local chapter of the Laborers International Union of America. The proposed contract sets new minimum wage levels for the 290 positions covered ...
The University of Kansas wants to start giving its seal of approval to private apartment complexes in Lawrence if they meet certain standards set by KU. KU leaders will seek approval from the Kansas Board of Regents this week to create an “affiliated housing plan” for the university. The affiliation plan would involve private apartment complexes in Lawrence getting special promotion from KU, as long as the ...