If you wanted to fry an egg on a Lawrence sidewalk, there long has been an obvious day to do it: the third Thursday of July, which is the traditional date for the Downtown Lawrence Sidewalk Sale.
As a journalist, I can tell you TV crews and others have done such pieces over the years to illustrate how hot it is during the shopping extravaganza. And, of course, it is humanly impossible to count the number of ...
Let’s do some news and notes from around town:
— I guess the saying is “as easy as taking candy from a baby.” I never bought it. (My kids came with a full set of shark teeth, which made candy removal and braces bills painful.) But I could believe something like “as easy as selling sandwiches to a college student.”
It looks like a new venture in the Oread neighborhood will put the idea to the ...
Pick which set of glasses you want to look through today.
Lawrence is the fourth-fastest growing city in Kansas.
Or, if you prefer, Lawrence is only growing at one-third the rate city leaders expect, and is being outpaced by relatively small communities like Spring Hill, Tonganoxie and Basehor.
Both set of facts are accurate, according to the latest population estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau. ...
For years, there have been people talking about how nice it would be to have a Lawrence business offering food and drink with true waterside seating.
Despite the interest, and even some publicly discussed plans, such an establishment has never developed along the portions of the Kansas River along downtown’s edge.
Maybe the problem has been we’ve been looking at the wrong body of water.
The owners of ...
The days of nearly every college student in Kansas needing to take college algebra are numbered.
The Kansas Board of Regents on Wednesday approved a plan that directs the University of Kansas and other state universities to move away from an academic system that requires an algebra course for most degrees.
But Regents in doing so gave university leaders a problem of their own to solve: How can you ...
Leaders of the University of Kansas are seeking a 5% increase in tuition rates for the next school year.
And they are not alone, as every Regents university in the state is proposing a similar increase after the Kansas Legislature approved a budget that did not provide as much money for employee raises and inflation as once expected.
The Kansas Board of Regents — which oversees KU, K-State, Emporia State, ...
