The University of Kansas’ top legislative priority received a boost on Thursday, as Gov. Laura Kelly has included $75 million of funding for a new cancer research center in her recommended budget. The new cancer building would be located on the KU Medical Center campus in Kansas City, Kan. KU leaders have said the funding is their top legislative priority of the session. The new research center is expected ...
Maybe award-winning barbecue has been the long-missing ingredient in an effort to convert the former Journal-World printing complex on the north end of downtown into a major new commercial area. We are about to find out. Kansas City’s popular Q39 barbecue restaurant has signed on to be an anchor tenant for a large redevelopment of the former Journal-World buildings that currently sit vacant at Sixth and ...
Even if we are browsing through the clearance items at the Goodwill store, all of us Lawrence shoppers can feel like we are almost part of an exclusive club — the $2 billion club. Lawrence fell just short of posting $2 billion in total retail sales in 2023, which would have made it just one of six communities in the state to do so. Now that the Kansas Department of Revenue has released its final sales tax ...
Parades should be just swell in 2024. The same might be said for community chili suppers and other such gatherings. And, oh my, how pretty the state’s roadsides will be with red and blue signs that contain what surely will be the 2024 Word of the Year: Elect. Yes, this year is not just an election year, but rather the deluxe model of election years. In addition to the presidential election, it also is an ...
A brownie swallows a chocolate chip cookie, and then I swallow both of them. Such a feat is not just possible in fever dreams any longer. It is a real deal at a new west Lawrence cookie shop. Dirty Dough has been open several weeks in the shopping center at Bob Billings Parkway and Wakarusa Drive, and it indeed has on its menu the “Brookie.” It is described as a treat whose exterior is brownie dough, but ...
Lawrence has finished 2023 with a nearly $3 million budget shortfall in sales tax collections, according to year-end numbers provided by the state. The shortfall comes as sales tax collections continued to grow in Lawrence, but did so at a rate much slower than the last couple of years. The budget shortfall — I've calculated it at $2.7 million — won’t be fatal for the city. It has an overall annual ...