Updated at 1:43 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 6 After more than 20 years in the Statehouse, Douglas County legislator Tom Holland won’t seek reelection to the Kansas Senate. Holland, D-Baldwin City, told the Journal-World on Wednesday that he had decided to pursue several opportunities in the private sector rather than run for reelection. Holland will continue to serve through the 2024 legislative session, which ...
For nearly 20 years, the KU Chabad House, on the southern edge of the university’s campus, has been a student refuge — complete with chicken soup. Rabbi Zalman Tiechtel talks of how Jewish students at KU, a distinct minority, often are far from home when they experience a piece of college life that creates a need for some comforts of home. Enter, quite literally, the Chabad House, which has crammed ...
In November of 1983, you could get out of your chair, walk to your TV, put your fingers on its dial, and turn to your ABC station to find the likes of “Happy Days” and “The Love Boat.” Well, except for that one night — Nov. 20, 1983 — when the network showed scenes of nuclear war, complete with vaporized communities, peeling flesh and instant cremations. Lawrence likely remembers the night better ...
As the numbers get short on the calendar, let’s take a look at a couple of numbers from Lawrence City Hall, with one set gaining steam and the other losing it. — First is the monthly report on sales tax collections in Lawrence. Those numbers are losing steam, and it sure appears likely that the city won’t meet its budget numbers for sales tax collections. The latest report from the state — the 11th ...
At the new downtown Lawrence coffee shop Espurresso, the java is popular, and, of course, is served in a cup. But it has a hard time competing with the shop’s most unique product, Syd, which often times is served in your lap. As the name suggests, Espurresso is not your ordinary coffee shop. It is a “cat cafe,” and Syd is the resident cat. She draws plenty of customers on her own, and she doesn’t ...
My idea of furniture and jewelry coming together is finding an earring in the couch cushions. However, my banker and I also know of someone whose ideas trend more toward a new gemstone — or maybe a string of them — to complement the couch’s upholstery. Whatever your idea is, there is a new store in downtown Lawrence that indeed combines furniture and jewelry. The Village Boutique opened earlier this ...