Lawrence is having a drive-thru coffee boom, and I’m not sure yet of all the impacts from it. (Is a double espresso a mitigating factor in a speeding ticket? How about a small bladder?)
Regardless, the latest planned entrant into Lawrence’s drive-thru coffee market is bringing some innovation to the scene. Instead of constructing a brand new building on a commercial lot, it hopes to win city approval to ...
University of Kansas Chancellor Douglas Girod is set to get a 4% pay increase for the coming school year, which is a somewhat larger raise than most KU employees are slated to receive.
The Kansas Board of Regents on Thursday approved pay increases for Girod and the other presidents and CEOs of the state’s six Regents universities.
Girod will receive about a $25,000 pay increase, bringing his base salary to ...
By late 2024, the University of Kansas hopes to be providing in-person classes to more than 100 students at a university in mainland China.
The Kansas Board of Regents on Wednesday approved a plan for KU to begin teaching undergraduate and graduate-level education courses at the Zhejiang Normal University in Jinhua, a city in eastern China of about 7 million people.
KU Chancellor Douglas Girod said KU became ...
A crowd of about 70 real estate agents had a topic on their minds when Lawrence Mayor Lisa Larsen attended their luncheon meeting on Tuesday — homelessness.
The topic was on the minds of Realtors because it certainly is on the minds of potential homebuyers. One agent said he’s recently had two out-of-town clients hire him to find homes in Lawrence only to give him instructions to start looking at the ...
When about a hundred local real estate agents gathered in a west Lawrence conference room on Thursday, they expected to hear an update on the massive building project underway at the Panasonic battery plant in De Soto.
They ended up hearing almost as much about another building project underway. This one, however, doesn’t involve any hammers and nails.
Twisting of arms, though, might be involved.
Local ...
Lawrence, you’ve certainly said you want minigolf.
“On the Facebook communities and stuff, you are always hearing people say, at least once a quarter, ‘someone should do minigolf,” Lawrence entrepreneur Matt Baysinger told me.
Well, Lawrence, soon you are going to get two stories of it.
I reported last week that Baysinger and his Kansas City-based company Swell Spark had signed a deal to buy the ...
