Updated at 6:41 p.m. Thursday
Kansas City, Kansas — It easily was a $30 million day for the University of Kansas on Thursday.
The university on Thursday announced that the KU Cancer Center has completed a multiyear project to win designation as a Comprehensive Cancer Center from the National Cancer Institute.
KU becomes one of just 53 comprehensive cancer centers in the country. That’s the same ...
University of Kansas Chancellor Douglas Girod on Thursday expressed confidence that KU would “land in a good place” as conference realignment again grips college athletics, but didn’t quite rule out that place could be somewhere other than the Big 12 Conference.
In a brief interview with the Journal-World Thursday, Girod was asked whether he was concerned about the University of Kansas’ ability to ...
Whether she is saying it loudly or not, count Kansas Gov Laura Kelly as a ‘no’ vote on the upcoming constitutional amendment that would remove abortion as a constitutionally protected right in Kansas. Just don't expect her to talk a lot about it on the campaign trail.
“I will vote against that constitutional amendment,” Kelly said in an interview with the Journal-World on Wednesday.
A ‘no’ vote ...
If you have been in downtown Lawrence late at night, you’ve perhaps noticed the popularity of Logie’s on Mass. During the school year there often was a line flowing out the door.
My guess is that with a name like Logie’s, the place has many unique characteristics. But one of the more obvious ones is that it is a big bar, stretching over two downtown storefronts at 728 Massachusetts St.
Now, the ...
Nearly every University of Kansas employee will receive a 5% pay increase for the next school year, KU leaders announced Friday afternoon.
The chancellor and other KU leaders for months have said it is their goal to give an approximately 5% increase to university employees, but had stopped short of promising an increase as state funding wouldn’t fully cover the extra salaries and wages.
On Friday, KU ...
If Lawrence wants to ward off future closures of public schools, the community's rate of population growth may need to double. At least, that is one conclusion that can be drawn from newly released census data.
Even then, that might not be enough.
If you recall, the idea of closing public schools dominated public discussion in Lawrence earlier this year, as the school district faced a budget problem that it ...
