You can’t quite call it a record-breaking year, but you can certainly say that Lawrence shoppers broke out their wallets in a big way in 2022.
Now, the question is whether those shoppers are just plain broke heading into 2023.
The city’s retail sales tax collections in 2022 were up 8% compared with a year ago, which is the second-best growth rate in recent memory. It trailed only 2021, when the city ...
A group led by the dean of KU’s School of Education is seeking tens of millions of dollars in new funding to provide scholarships to Kansas high school students who want to enter the K-12 teaching profession.
Rick Ginsberg, dean of KU’s education school, recently told the Kansas Board of Regents that it should remove several restrictions from its Kansas Teacher Service Scholarship Program, and that the ...
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 ...
