No matter which way you slice it, Lawrence is just on the edge of being really expensive, by Kansas standards anyway. By national standards, it is still a relative bargain.
A new report that uses detailed payment data from consumers across the state compares the average monthly living expenses in Lawrence to more than 30 other cities and towns in Kansas. There are two ways to look at the data, and both of them ...
A year ago, Douglas County leaders said the county needed a policy about how large its piles of unused cash — rainy day funds, so to speak — could grow.
Lots of governments have policies that call for them to keep funds equal to three months worth of expenses — and no more — to cover downturns or unexpected events. But as a review by the Journal-World found last year, the county had no such policy, ...
After getting denied by city commissioners in September, a plan for a townhome development near the estate-style homes of Fall Creek Farms in west Lawrence has re-emerged.
A new set of plans for Fall Creek Villas has been filed at City Hall, and the local developer this time thinks he has the formula for winning city approval.
In a sense, the new formula involves accepting that there are many twists and ...
It was 6:45 a.m. last Saturday, and Steve and April Evans were 15 minutes into their walk on North Lawrence’s Kansas River levee trail.
That’s when April yelled: “We are being chased!”
Her husband, Steve, had walked many steps ahead of her to gain a better sight line of the city-sanctioned homeless camp that sits below the levee near Johnny’s Tavern. Steve had his camera because he needed to take ...
A local drainage district is accusing the City of Lawrence of locating its sanctioned homeless camp on drainage district property without receiving permission from the district.
The accusations have created questions about whether the city will have to alter operations at the camp, which is located by the Kansas River levee in North Lawrence, near Johnny’s Tavern.
The Kaw Drainage District notified the ...
When it comes to cages, give me a circus cage with a lion in it over a batting cage with a pitching machine that throws curveballs. (It is more humiliating to get eaten alive with a bat in your hands.)
Lawrence has a new baseball and softball training business that indeed features such high-tech pitching machines, and its owner confirmed to me that hitting that curveball can be a little tough on the ego. ...
