It has been a slow start to a new year in Lawrence.
Retail sales in the first quarter of the year are down in Lawrence compared to a year ago, and numbers from the Kansas Department of Revenue show Lawrence is the only major retail market in the state to have posted such a decline.
Reasons for the dip aren’t clear. The state’s monthly reports don’t provide any commentary on why totals are up or down, ...
If there is one question that may get asked as often as “how can there be so many taco places in Lawrence,” it might be “how can there be so many coffee shops in Lawrence?”
I’m not sure I have the answer, but I do have a new twist on the questions: “What happens when a coffee shop goes into a former taco place?”
The answer is a whole of lot of goodness, the owner of Lawrence-based Uplift Coffee ...
Good people can change bad laws — if they aren’t too scared to try, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor told a Lawrence crowd on Tuesday evening.
The power of people and the need for courage were a pair of themes that Sotomayor came back to multiple times during an approximately hourlong, invitation-only event hosted by the University of Kansas law school on KU’s West Campus.
“Those protests ...
It was a spring afternoon in June 2012, and Lawrence City Manager David Corliss was spinning a tale before city commissioners. It is a common one in city halls: If you want to follow the growth of a city, follow the sewers.
Hey, no one ever said City Hall tales are sexy. But, they are often expensive.
Sewers are especially so, and Lawrence city commissioners were learning that by the day. Corliss and his ...
In the world of water and sewer utilities, what you can’t see often rules the day — miles and miles of pipes beneath the ground.
Those pipes, some more than a century old, are the most frequent exhibit city officials point to when residents question why water and sewer bills in Lawrence are increasing at rates far greater than inflation. To keep the system efficient and reliable, old pipes and other aged ...
As water and sewer rates are soaring in Lawrence, the whereabouts of $1.8 million of ratepayer funds at City Hall is unclear, a Journal-World investigation has found.
While reviewing years of audited financial statements and budget records in an attempt to learn more about why Lawrence utility bills have been increasing at rates far greater than inflation — last year rates increased by 11% — the ...
