Members of the Lawrence chamber of commerce gathered for the organization’s annual meeting on Friday at Abe & Jake’s Landing in downtown Lawrence. The Chamber honored Ron and Joanne Hurst as Citizens of the Years, and honored state Sen. Marci Francisco with the Athena Award, which recognizes outstanding female leaders of the community.
While the eyes of the world are on the Russian invasion of Ukraine, a top Defense Department official told a KU crowd Thursday that Americans need to understand they are in a conflict too. “Russia has largely declared war on the West,” Trent Maul, director of analysis for the Defense Intelligence Agency, told a KU conference on Russian threats to America and democracy. And Maul — a KU graduate who is ...
A vehicle-less Massachusetts St. was flat. Nothing else in downtown Lawrence was on Monday evening. The Kansas Jayhawks pulled off a national championship comeback for the ages trailing by 15 points at halftime and then steamrolled fellow blue blood North Carolina in the second half. KU won 72-69. “It has been a roller coaster of emotions,” Hannah Hartnett, a freshman from Chicago, said from a crowd of ...
Update: As of 4:50 p.m., there were multiple reports around Lawrence that cable television service had been restored. However, it wasn't clear whether service had returned to the entire Lawrence area, and Midco had not yet provided an update to the Journal-World. • • • Large numbers of Midco customers in Lawrence are without cable television service just hours before the Kansas Jayhawks play in a Final ...
Douglas County politics for the next few years may look a bit like spring training baseball — several faces you don’t recognize and a fair number of people playing in odd positions. Lawrence residents already have learned — and largely are upset — that Lawrence will become part of the western Kansas-based 1st Congressional district, placing the state’s most liberal city with the most conservative ...
Sen. Tom Holland says he has hired an attorney to challenge a new Kansas Senate map that removes all of his district’s Lawrence territory and largely replaces with it Johnson County communities. “I’ll take it all the way to the Supreme Court,” Holland, D-Baldwin City, said of his intentions of filing a lawsuit in state court. Holland, who has represented Lawrence in the Kansas Senate since 2009, said ...