I know that retail has bounced back in Lawrence since the pandemic. City Hall has two years of growing sales tax collections that lend evidence to the idea. (Plus, there’s been enough activity on my credit card that Visa has offered to provide me a personal trainer so that I remain healthy and able to sign checks for years to come.)
But do you know who hasn’t gotten the memo? New retailers. The community ...
Story updated at 2:16 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 26, 2023:
A Douglas County legislator has filed a bill that would require priests and other ministers to report any suspected child abuse to state authorities.
Sen Tom Holland, D-Baldwin City, filed Senate Bill 87 this week that would add “duly ordained ministers” to the list of professionals who are mandated reporters of child abuse in the state.
Holland has ...
The Lawrence-Douglas County Planning Commission meeting on Wednesday evening became frightening at City Hall.
Longtime Lawrence architect Allen Belot collapsed during the meeting from an apparent heart attack, shortly after making a presentation to the commission.
Several members of the crowded meeting room rushed to Belot and began providing aid that ranged from chest compressions to mouth-to-mouth to one ...
Homebuyers, for the most part, are doing their share to battle rising Lawrence home prices. For the third time in four years, home sales in Lawrence have fallen.
It still wasn’t enough, though. The median selling price of Lawrence homes posted a double-digit percentage increase in 2022.
Lawrence home sales fell 13% to a total of 1,121 homes in 2022, according to the year-end report from the Lawrence Board ...
They make airplanes — not rockets — in Wichita, but there’s a new set of numbers out that might cause you to think differently. After all, something has powered Wichita State University’s engineering school into the stratosphere.
Wichita State finished fiscal year 2021 as a top 20 university in the entire country for engineering research and development funding. Others included in that top 20 group ...
Most University of Kansas employees are in line for a 5% wage increase — for the second year in a row — if the Legislature approves Gov. Laura Kelly’s recommended budget for the upcoming budget year.
That proposed wage increase was one of several pieces of good news that university leaders were touting as part of a budget recommendation that would add nearly $108 million of new investments to the ...
