When news emerged that Panasonic was going to build a $4 billion, 4,000-job electric vehicle battery plant in De Soto — about 20 minutes from Lawrence — a natural question followed: Would this massive project put Lawrence on an eastward tilt for the first time in a long time?
If you have followed Lawrence development, you know new growth has been pretty westward oriented for decades. But this battery plant ...
A prominent downtown parking lot is no longer set to be donated to the Bert Nash Community Mental Health Center for a unique multistory housing project.
City commissioners at a Sept. 13 meeting had told city staff to begin working on a plan that could include donating a city-owned parking lot — a to-be determined one along Vermont Street — to Bert Nash for what was anticipated to be a three-story building ...
I hear people complain that their stock portfolios are creating no growth. I don’t know what they’re talking about. My stock portfolio is growing my ulcer by the day. Given that, you would think news of a nearly 10% growth rate in a multimillion-dollar fund would be unequivocally good news. Yet, that is not entirely the case.
In the world of sales tax collections in 2022, a 10% growth rate isn’t what it ...
More KU students soon may be seeing mom or dad around campus.
No, there’s not a new plan to get parents on the campus more often, but University of Kansas leaders are unveiling a new program to get more children of KU employees to enroll at the university.
The plan is a simple one: Have the university pay a greater portion of their children’s tuition.
Under the new plan, children or other dependents of ...
Updated at 1:50 p.m. Thursday
KU leaders for months have said they thought a national championship in basketball and new student recruitment efforts would result in positive enrollment numbers for the University of Kansas this fall.
New numbers from the Kansas Board of Regents on Thursday proved them partially right.
By one standard, KU’s enrollment grew for the first time since 2016. The Regents counted ...
In the end, Sam Mulki’s wife was right.
Back in 1988, when Mulki came to the U.S. from Jordan, his wife — an American — always urged him to cook his native Middle Eastern dishes.
“But I would say no, no, I came here to America and I want to try American food,” Mulki said. “And I liked it.”
Well ... that’s true, but not enough that he forgot his Jordanian roots. So, he would end up making ...
