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. ...
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 ...
At times, it seems like beer has taken over the world. There are sports bars with beer taps measured by the dozen, liquor stores with beer coolers the size of a small house and, of course, there are plenty of Lawrence neighborhoods where a forklift would be handy to take out the recycling bin of aluminum cans.
But there are also those entrepreneurs who like the idea of going against the grain — perhaps even ...
Lawrence city commissioners heard about an hour’s worth of public comment on Tuesday urging the city to adopt a resolution calling for a ceasefire in the Israeli-Hamas conflict that is producing large numbers of civilian casualties in the Middle East.
Some commenters went so far as to say that a failure to support a resolution calling for a ceasefire would put the city on the side of genocide.
During the ...
