Lee Norman, a retired colonel in the U.S. Army National Guard and the former secretary of the Kansas Department of Health and Environment who served during the pandemic, told a crowd at the University of Kansas' Veterans Day ceremony to identify causes to serve and then commit to them fully. "Every one of us at some point says we are all in, and then you had better be all in," said Norman, who was the featured ...
A committee of state lawmakers got an earful Thursday about drug use, violence and other problems surrounding homelessness in Lawrence, and several lawmakers responded by wondering whether the city was inviting some of its own problems. The Kansas Legislature’s Special Committee on Homelessness heard testimony from three Lawrence business owners, and also heard from a Lawrence assistant city manager who said ...
At times, it seems like beer has taken over the world. There are sports bars with beer taps measured by the dozen, liquor stores with beer coolers the size of a small house and, of course, there are plenty of Lawrence neighborhoods where a forklift would be handy to take out the recycling bin of aluminum cans. But there are also those entrepreneurs who like the idea of going against the grain — perhaps even ...
Lawrence city commissioners heard about an hour’s worth of public comment on Tuesday urging the city to adopt a resolution calling for a ceasefire in the Israeli-Hamas conflict that is producing large numbers of civilian casualties in the Middle East. Some commenters went so far as to say that a failure to support a resolution calling for a ceasefire would put the city on the side of genocide. During the ...
All three candidates who received significant support from a conservative national political action committee came up short in their bids to win seats on the Baldwin school board on Tuesday. Election results weren’t yet final, but late Tuesday, candidates Ken Snyder, Michael Kennedy and Buck Bradley all were several hundred votes behind their opponents, with just a few ballots left to be counted by the ...
Let’s take a look at some news and notes from around town: — Motorists soon should notice large amounts of construction work at the northwest corner of Sixth Street and Folks Road. Capitol Federal Savings has started work on a new branch bank at the site. We reported in March that Capitol Federal had filed plans to build on the vacant lot. But work did not begin over the summer. Now it has, and Capitol ...