As the city of Eudora gets ready to grow outward, it has looked inward to fill its top City Hall position. The Eudora City Commission on Monday agreed to hire Kevyn Gero as the community’s next city manager. Gero, a former city of Lawrence administrator, has been the assistant city manager in Eudora for about two years, and has been serving as Eudora’s interim city manager for the last six months. ...
Area leaders believe the West Campus of the University of Kansas has a strong chance to become a national hub for cybersecurity research and related companies. They’ve long had a well-placed patron of that cause in U.S. Sen. Jerry Moran, who recently has become even more influential in U.S. national security with his appointment to the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. Moran on Friday told a ...
U.S. Sen. Jerry Moran on Friday declined to label the federal case against former president Donald Trump as unfair, and said the judicial system should be allowed to do its work on the matter. Following a Lawrence event, Moran — a Kansas Republican — made some of his first public statements about the 37-count indictment that alleges Trump improperly kept intelligence documents and obstructed justice when ...
A University of Kansas-hired consultant may be recommending that the university’s football stadium shrink to a capacity of less than 40,000 people as part of a major campus gateway project, but KU’s athletic director is pushing back on the idea. A day after the Journal-World reported on a consultant’s report that recommended KU shrink the size of David Booth Kansas Memorial Stadium to 39,839 seats — ...
KU has big plans to turn the area around its football stadium into a hub for conventions and tourism, but it may need to make its football stadium the smallest in the Big 12 to do so. An outside consultant hired by the University of Kansas is recommending a 55,000-square-foot conference center, a 175-room upscale hotel and even a 2,500-seat concert and event venue for the stadium site near 11th and Mississippi ...
By this time next year, Lawrence should know whether it has won the equivalent of a multimillion-dollar soccer lottery. That’s one way to look at the 48 “base camps” that will be part of the 2026 World Cup that will be hosted in the U.S., Canada and Mexico. Those camps — spread out over all three countries — will be the home away from home for the 48 teams competing in the 37-day tournament that is ...