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 ...
Inflation soon will find your golf game — even if you are able to cut down on your three-putts. The price of golf at the city-run Eagle Bend Golf Course will increase by about 20% next month, and that is just the beginning for all types of fee increases for Parks and Recreation activities in the city. Swimming, youth baseball, adult kickball and, yes, even cemetery burials are set to increase on Feb. 1, as ...
City commissioners Tuesday took another step to make Lawrence the first city in the state to prohibit landlords from refusing to rent to tenants who receive government assistance, such as Section 8 housing vouchers. After about two hours of divided public comment, city commissioners expressed support for an ordinance that would prohibit landlords from discriminating against potential tenants on the basis of ...
A capacity crowd of about 200 people got a Martin Luther King Jr. prescription filled at a downtown community breakfast honoring the late civil rights leader on Monday. Its most potent active ingredient: Personal courage. “All of us here has it to a degree,” keynote speaker Gary Steele told the crowd at Maceli’s Banquet Hall. “But I think we are all going to need a little more personal courage if we ...