Fayetteville, Ark. — As about 130 leaders from Lawrence and Topeka embarked on a trip to Northwest Arkansas this week, a common goal was to find a couple of million-dollar ideas to bring back to their communities.
In some ways, though, that is the equivalent of dime-store shopping here in the Arkansas Ozarks. After all, a million-dollar idea is only so impressive in a land that is dominated by billionaires. ...
We are off to the Land of Walmart to learn. I’ll be honest. That phrase causes worry in my household because the lesson usually involves the upper boundaries of our credit limit.
But this isn’t a household trip. It is a community trip, and we aren’t going to an actual Walmart. We are going to Bentonville and Northwest Arkansas, where Walmart was founded and its corporate headquarters remain.
About 130 ...
When it comes to prices and retail sales, the start of 2022 has been anything but ordinary — unless you consider using a Brinks truck to transport your groceries home ordinary. With that said, Lawrence’s sales tax collections for the first four months of the year don’t look normal, but they also don’t look out of line with what’s going on elsewhere in the state.
After receiving its April sales tax ...
Forrest Gump can spout all he wants about life being "like a box of chocolates,” but a new Lawrence nonprofit thinks a box of unassembled furniture may be more apt.
In a small warehouse in North Lawrence, a group of about 10 “transitional youth” — kids typically 16 to 24 years old who have been or are in the foster care system or the juvenile justice system — await a truck to pull up to the overhead ...
Many KU employees are likely to get a 5% raise in the next school year, and the question of whether students will see a tuition hike is still an open one, according to the university’s chancellor.
University of Kansas Chancellor Douglas Girod said he expected the average merit wage increase at KU to be at or near the 5% level when the new fiscal year begins in July, even though Kansas lawmakers haven’t ...
A project to make KU’s West Campus a larger center for pharmaceutical and technology companies received almost $1 million in additional funding on Thursday.
The University of Kansas’ Innovation Park project received a $957,500 grant through the federal Small Business Administration to add a small-scale pharmaceutical manufacturing facility to a technology incubator building that is under construction on ...
