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. ...
Story updated at 4 p.m. Wednesday:
KU plans to build a 600-person conference and event center that would be integrated into the north bowl of its football stadium, according to a concept plan obtained by the Journal-World.
While the plans aren’t set in stone, the concept answers one of the biggest questions that’s been floating around Jayhawk tailgaters this season: Where is everyone going to park and ...
If the University of Kansas ever decides it wants to change athletic conferences, it will have to win some state approvals that aren’t required today.
Members of the Kansas Board of Regents on Wednesday unanimously approved a policy that will require any Regents university — KU, K-State, Wichita State, Fort Hays State, Pittsburg State and Emporia State — to get approvals from at least three ...
