A liberal Democrat may be the biggest winner with the new five-district Douglas County Commission map that was approved this week.
The biggest loser may be a group of rural residents who thought they were sending a message that they didn’t care for this current county commission and wanted to see change as quickly as possible.
Those are a couple of my takeaways after spending some time reviewing the map ...
The wheels are officially turning on a nearly $125 million City of Lawrence project. And, there really are a lot of wheels involved with this one.
City officials recently filed for a special use permit that will allow the city to build its new “field operations campus” — perhaps better thought of as a large public works complex — at VenturePark in eastern Lawrence. Eventually, the site will have ...
Make room in the nest, Firebirds and Jayhawks. In the world of Lawrence mascots, the Kaw — the feathered mascot of the Perry-Lecompton school district — may soon demand some space.
For several years now, Lawrence technically has been a city that has two public school districts: the Lawrence district, which covers almost the entire city, and the Perry-Lecompton district, which has territory in the growing ...
During the height of the pandemic, the city of Lawrence spent nearly $250,000 of federal money to purchase three mobile trailers that provided flush toilets, hot showers and laundry facilities.
In late 2020, those trailers seemed like they could be a lifesaver in a world that had turned to housing the homeless outdoors in an effort to prevent the spread of COVID. But the trailers also seemed likely to be ...
The University of Kansas hopes to raise at least $150 million from donors to fund its football stadium renovation and gateway project near 11th and Mississippi streets.
“We believe to take full advantage of what could be out there, we need to raise $150 million at a minimum,” KU Chancellor Douglas Girod said in a brief interview with the Journal-World on Wednesday.
KU officials last month filed paperwork ...
The granddaddy of economic statistics for counties across America is out for last year, and it shows Douglas County’s economy was slightly above average. The numbers also show Lawrence could use a lot more years like it, as Douglas County still hasn’t made up from all its losses during the pandemic.
The U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis this week released its gross domestic product estimates for every ...
