Rising gasoline prices are causing all types of problems for businesses, but Lawrence’s lone Applebee's restaurant faced a new one this week.
The restaurant on south Iowa Street was closed for large parts of Tuesday because of high gasoline prices, but perhaps not for the reasons you would think. Multiple employees of the chain quit after seeing an email from a regional manager urging the restaurant to ...
The University of Kansas has moved up five spots in a key ranking of top public research universities in the country, KU announced Tuesday.
But the latest rankings from the Higher Education and Research Development Survey also show that KU’s research dollars continue to be near the bottom of the pack of all public universities in the prestigious Association of American Universities — a group that KU is ...
More kids in classrooms. Fewer teachers in schools.
Both appeared to be likelihoods in the Lawrence school district next year after school board members spent a couple of hours Tuesday sifting through nearly $6.5 million of proposed budget cuts.
The Lawrence school board did not make any final decisions at a special work session on Tuesday evening, but a majority of board members expressed support for budget ...
At one point, the future of the golf course and driving range along Kansas Highway 10 east of Lawrence was a bit like many of my golf balls: difficult to see and slightly treacherous to reach.
But now the Twin Oaks Golf Course and driving range has a new owner and has reopened for the season, which is something that the last owner wasn’t sure would happen.
“I saw a lot of potential here,” said new ...
Kansas has a definite case of test anxiety these days.
Whether the Kansas high school students who are taking the ACT standardized tests are nervous is unknown, but higher education leaders certainly are nervous about the results they are posting.
The Kansas Board of Regents this past week received its annual report on a host of education statistics, and none of them produced more alarm than a steep and ...
The Kansas Board of Regents had no problem in approving a new tuition plan for Wichita State University that will allow large numbers of out-of-state students to qualify for cheaper in-state tuition.
The reason was simple, Regents said.
“When we import a student in from another state, that is like creating a new job for the state,” Regent and Lawrence resident Wint Winter said. “It is similar from a ...
