Despite a lifting of the countywide mask mandate, masks are still required in classrooms at KU, but likely won’t be after spring break, Chancellor Douglas Girod said Thursday morning.
Beginning at 5 p.m. Thursday, though, KU is no longer requiring masks in nonclassroom settings such as libraries, dining halls, research labs, hallways, offices, meeting rooms and similar areas. A message from Girod also said ...
KU has become a “toxic, undemocratic” institution in the last couple of years, faculty, staff and student leaders said Thursday in a formal resolution asking the chancellor to change how KU is governed.
University Senate members voted to approve a resolution asking Chancellor Douglas Girod to create a task force to strengthen the role that university community members have in governing KU. In its ...
A large nonprofit that operates a homeless shelter in Kansas City, Mo. has its eye on Lawrence. But there’s an open question about whether the group wants to start providing new services in Lawrence or whether it plans to use the city as a supply hub for its KC thrift store business.
What is clear is that City Union Mission has filed plans with Lawrence City Hall to convert a vacant convenience store at 23rd ...
Normally, if the money coming into my bank account surges by 17%, I would be getting into party planning mode. But today, I guess I’m a glass-half-empty type of guy. In my defense, who can afford to fully fill anything these days? (I quickly learned it wasn’t a good idea when the gas pump asked for my shopper card and my completed loan application.)
That’s kind of the situation the City of Lawrence and ...
A few weeks ago, the Eudora School Board was close to publicly defying the mask mandate that had just been extended by the Douglas County Commission. There was serious consideration by multiple board members to simply tell Eudora’s schools to not follow the county’s mask rules.
The school board ultimately didn’t have enough votes to tell the county and its mask mandate to take a hike, but I mention it ...
Plans for a new retirement complex in northwest Lawrence are moving ahead, but now the developers are seeking some city assistance in the form of a tax break.
As we reported in October, a St. Louis-based group plans to build 53 units of assisted living and 22 units for residents in need of memory care on a vacant piece of land in the Bauer Farm development, near Sixth Street and Folks Road.
The project, ...
