Some people worry about the day robots take over the world. Not me. I’m ready for a robot to do all my parallel parking, for instance. There was a brief time period in Lawrence where it looked like something along those lines might happen.
Perhaps you remember the futuristic parking plans that were part of the original design of the HERE apartment and retail building that was built across the street from ...
Rob Richardson knows a thing or two about speed, given that a good part of his professional career has involved overseeing new development around the Kansas Speedway in Kansas City, Kansas.
Richardson, who for 17 years was the director of planning for Kansas City, Kansas, and Wyandotte County, has been hired by local economic development leaders to fill the new position of “Panasonic Opportunities ...
UPDATED 3:40 P.M. OCT. 18, 2022
Many of downtown’s most prominent business owners are formally asking the city and county to consider taking over operations of Lawrence’s nonprofit homeless shelter to address what they call a “shelter and housing emergency” in the community.
“We are seeing the numbers in the transient population really increase, and as a community, we haven’t mobilized enough,” ...
A physicist and interim dean at the University of New Mexico is vying to become the leader of KU’s College of Liberal Arts & Sciences, the university's biggest academic unit.
Arash Mafi will be the second of four candidates to conduct a public presentation on the University of Kansas campus to become the new executive dean of KU's College of Liberal Arts & Sciences. Mafi is scheduled to give a ...
Lawrence, get ready for a whole lot of bicyclists and a few detours.
The second annual Belgian Waffle Ride has returned to Lawrence and will have bicyclists racing in parts of Douglas and Jefferson counties, and many race celebrations and award ceremonies in downtown Lawrence today and Sunday.
The city of Lawrence is reminding motorists of some street closures and detours that will result from the event, ...
The old joke is that economists were put on Earth to make weather forecasters look good. That said, a Wichita State economist on Friday had no problem in being definitive with a Lawrence crowd about one prediction.
You’ll never get a better deal on a home mortgage than the deal that was offered a year ago.
“We will never see 3% mortgage rates again,” Stanley Longhofer, director of the WSU Center for ...
