A mistake was made, and what ensued was not a great look for local government.
Last week, the city of Lawrence’s Affordable Housing Advisory Board met to begin the process of awarding about $700,000 of taxpayer funds to affordable housing projects. Step No. 1 of the process is to determine which applications the board will accept for consideration.
This is normally the no drama part of the process. But last ...
I can’t seem to get Costco off my mind.
The thoughts are about $80 million deep. As I wrote last week, that’s a conservative estimate of how much money the store — which opens in northwest Lawrence on Oct. 29 — will send to the state of Kansas in sales tax dollars over the next 20 years. That’s also the amount of money the city of Lawrence could potentially capture for local projects if it would take ...
I think city commissioners on Tuesday night should have been pretty interested in taking the State of Kansas for about $80 million. I think they should continue to be interested in such a scheme.
Yes, a scheme. That’s basically what this decision of whether to include the soon-to-open Costco store in a STAR bond district is about. While it is difficult for a city commissioner to talk in such blunt terms in ...
I’m pretty sure I would have been annoyed if Congressman Tracey Mann had shown up for Saturday’s candidate forum in Lawrence.
I suspect it would have been a scene of much drama and protest. The boos, the chants, the interruptions while he tried to speak and other such tactics that have become common fodder for social media feeds whenever a politician from one party ends up in a room of people from the other ...
It is the ugliest scoreboard in America — which makes sense given that it is measuring politicians. Recent public polling by the Pew Research Center shows that 58% of Americans view the Republican Party unfavorably and 59% view the Democratic Party unfavorably.
The scoreboard sucks not only because of its negativity, but also because of how meaningless it is. Elections will be held next month across the ...
Hang around the finances of college athletics for just a little bit and one fact will become abundantly clear: Athletic departments are motivated to spend every dollar they get.
As you would expect, the departments are led by highly competitive people, and the departments are full of highly competitive student-athletes. In short, everybody there cares about scores.
In the business of college athletics there ...
