A random student at a recent University of Kansas job fair unwittingly said a lot about the future of KU and its Lawrence campus.
The student was inquiring about an internship when she was asked what level she was at in her education at KU. By years, she said, she is a sophomore. By credit hours, she is a senior.
This journalism student could compress her entire college career — and thus her time in ...
Most of the things that grew during the pandemic in Lawrence didn’t produce much excitement. Frustration, restaurant closings and a greater self-awareness of the importance of breath mints (thank you, masks) were near the top of my list.
But there is a new report out that suggests Lawrence saw growth in one area that could be very exciting — technology workers.
A new study by the Brookings Institution ...
Plans have been filed for a $7 million building on the eastern edge of Lawrence, with a likelihood that portions of the new building will house an outpatient substance abuse treatment center.
DCCCA, one of the largest nonprofit agencies in Lawrence, has filed plans at City Hall to construct an approximately 17,000-square foot building just east of 23rd and Harper streets in eastern Lawrence.
The property at ...
There’s one category that the University of Kansas is blowing away its Big 12 competition in — the use of wind energy on its campus.
KU leaders on Wednesday announced it had joined the Environmental Protection Agency’s Green Power Partnership program, which promotes the use of renewable energy and also measures how well cities, counties, universities and other large organizations are doing in their ...
A key piece of paper arrived in the mailboxes of homeowners in recent days. It is the document that explains how much the county thinks your home is worth, which is important because local governments are going to charge you property taxes based off that value.
Upon opening those letters, homeowners may have wondered whether they expanded their homes and simply forgot. Perhaps they had built a vault — filled ...
Take a drive in the countryside northeast of Lawrence, and be prepared to find something that many Lawrence residents likely would deem odd.
There, along Kansas Highway 32 in adjacent Leavenworth County — just a bit past Linwood and that community’s livestock auction barn — is a big, new building under construction. It is a new elementary school for the Basehor-Linwood school district.
In Lawrence, the ...
