Forget the saying “a tough nut to crack.” Evidently, the real problem with nuts is what to do with all the darn shells once you have cracked them.
Indeed, there was a California company that had 25 acres of pistachio shells and no good idea of what to do with them. Pistachio shells don’t biodegrade very well, and it didn’t seem like it would be environmentally responsible to just dump them in a ...
Growing up in the 1980s, Freddy Krueger — the nightmare-inducing fellow from Elm Street — was like a warm glass of milk before bed compared with one particular horror film.
I’m talking about “The Day After,” the 1983 television movie that showed the horrors of a nuclear war. The movie was both set and largely filmed in Lawrence, so as a northeast Kansas resident, good luck hiding from that terror. ...
University of Kansas students living and dining on the KU campus should expect about a 5% increase in prices next year.
While that price increase will be meaningful — it will push the price of KU’s average housing and dining plan to about $11,000 per year — future plans for KU dormitory living may be even more dramatic.
KU's chief financial officer, Jeff DeWitt, told the Kansas Board of Regents this ...
Emporia — An expected $100 million-plus increase in the price of the University of Kansas’ football stadium and campus gateway project produced no worries for the Kansas Board of Regents on Wednesday.
Regents at their monthly meeting at Emporia State University approved a new budget of $448 million for the project, which will renovate the west half of David Booth Kansas Memorial Stadium, add a conference ...
Lee Norman, a retired colonel in the U.S. Army National Guard and the former secretary of the Kansas Department of Health and Environment who served during the pandemic, told a crowd at the University of Kansas' Veterans Day ceremony to identify causes to serve and then commit to them fully.
"Every one of us at some point says we are all in, and then you had better be all in," said Norman, who was the featured ...
A committee of state lawmakers got an earful Thursday about drug use, violence and other problems surrounding homelessness in Lawrence, and several lawmakers responded by wondering whether the city was inviting some of its own problems.
The Kansas Legislature’s Special Committee on Homelessness heard testimony from three Lawrence business owners, and also heard from a Lawrence assistant city manager who said ...
