A new $20 million project has opened in northwest Lawrence — and it features all-day dining. Now, that’s a buffet I would like to see.
Actually, the project is not some mega-eatery, but rather is a new 76-room assisted living and memory care facility just northwest of Sixth and Folks Road.
Cedarhurst of Lawrence opened earlier this week at 4550 Bauer Farm Drive. If you are having a hard time picturing ...
Story updated at 5:19 p.m. Thursday, April 25:
Faculty members at the University of Kansas have voted by a large margin to form a union to negotiate with administrators for better pay, benefits and working conditions.
The faculty members — including a broad host of professors, instructors, librarians and others — agreed by a vote of 850 to 132 to be represented by the United Academics of the University of ...
Wheeler Parker Jr. was worried about the words that might come out of his cousin’s mouth.
His cousin, Emmett Till, you see, had not been to the South. He was a Black teenager from Chicago, and there had been much discussion in August 1955 among the Till and Wheeler families of whether cousin Emmett should even travel to Mississippi to see his family there.
“The question became should we let Emmett go ...
March devoured hopes of a basketball national championship in Lawrence, and for dessert, it may have finished off any thoughts of declining home prices in the city too.
It was just a week ago that I reported on data from the Lawrence Board of Realtors that showed home prices in Lawrence had declined for three straight months — December, January and February, which marked the first such stretch of decline ...
It is a good bet that Kansas Highway 10 will be expanded to six lanes in the next five years. But based on the current planning in the Kansas Department of Transportation, it is a lousy bet to think any of that expansion will cross into Douglas County.
Panasonic’s 4,000-job, $4 billion electric vehicle battery plant in De Soto — scheduled to open in early 2025 — is a key driver behind expansion plans. ...
In a speech at KU on Friday commemorating the 70th anniversary of the landmark school desegregation case Brown v. Board of Education, one of the nation’s top civil rights attorneys quoted both the law and philosophy.
But Sherrilyn Ifill, the former director and counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, told members of the KU crowd that they ought to be quoting the Brown v. Board decision itself. There is a ...
