It almost is a truism in a college town: When you get a place with more space, get more couches. (The two hardest parts about moving my college-age son were the number of couches, and getting people off of them.) The situation is not quite the same at Habitat for Humanity’s new ReStore, but couches and other furniture are playing a big role in the new space.
As we reported in July, Habitat for Humanity ...
As the calendar turned to fall, inflation was soaring in Lawrence and across the state, the latest Kansas sales tax figures suggest. But they also suggest something else: Consumers never blinked.
The latest numbers from the state show sales tax collections in Lawrence were up a whopping 30% for the one-month period, compared with the same period a year ago. But Lawrence was nothing special. The statewide ...
The day after KU won the NCAA National Championship, the Journal-World set up a folding card table outside our office door to sell copies of the newspaper. We sold so many that I joked if I had gotten an MBA, I would have thought to set up two card tables.
Less visible but even busier were our online sales operations at shop.Lawrence.com. We sold newspapers and other souvenirs at a very rapid rate. It was a ...
Obviously the pilgrims chose turkey for the first Thanksgiving because the drive-thru burger joint was closed for the holiday. Maybe the history books differ on that contention, but it is a fact that I’ve got hamburgers on my mind.
Particularly, Whataburgers.
In case you have forgotten, plans were filed in June at City Hall showing that the popular hamburger chain Whataburger wants to open its first ...
Maybe the online buying trend has gone a step too far. (I’m not saying that because Amazon has asked whether my home has a loading dock.) One new Lawrence entrepreneur believes online shopping has taken hold in an area that doesn’t make much sense — maternity clothing.
Kisha Cranston is in the process of opening The Bump Store in The Malls Shopping Center at 23rd and Louisiana streets. She came up with ...
Last year wasn’t a great year to earn money in Douglas County. But — brace yourself for a phrase we don’t often say when it comes to money — at least we weren’t Johnson County.
The federal government has released statistics showing the per capita personal income for every county in Kansas in 2021. They show incomes in Douglas County grew at a rate slower than both the national and state averages. ...
