About a decade ago, a single word dramatically changed the life of Jackie Foley, CEO of FireLake Construction, which recently moved its corporate headquarters to Lawrence.
The word: Vestibule.
Foley had recently quit her 20-year career as a bank executive to join her brother Bill Slavin in a new construction business he had started after an Air Force career.
The game plan was for the company to focus on ...
Historically, the incidence of reported rapes at the University of Kansas is about 40% higher than just down the interstate at Kansas State University, according to federal crime data for college campuses recently reviewed by the Journal-World.
From 2014 through 2019, the number of rape reports on or near the KU campus averaged 0.57 per 1,000 students. At Kansas State, it was 0.41 rape reports, on average, ...
Three candidates for the Lawrence City Commission on Wednesday called for either a freezing of city utility rates or a moratorium on the collection of overdue utility bills.
How to assist low-income residents who are struggling with consistently rising utility bills was a big question at a City Commission candidate forum hosted by the local chapter of the NAACP.
“The biggest thing we can do to assist those ...
Updated at 1:25 p.m. Thursday
A five-year enrollment slide at the University of Kansas’ main campus continued, new numbers released for the fall semester show.
Numbers from the Kansas Board of Regents on Thursday showed KU’s enrollment at its Lawrence campus did not bounce back to pre-pandemic levels, but rather declined slightly from the fall 2020 mark by one key metric.
But the report also shows that ...
I thought I had tried every type of breakfast first. (I now begrudgingly admit using Cap’n Crunch as an omelet filling isn’t going to get you promoted to admiral anytime soon.) But today, I added a new first: I ate in the first Flip’d restaurant in America, and yes, it is in Lawrence.
We reported back in June that the longtime breakfast restaurant IHOP had chosen Lawrence as one of its first markets for ...
A Lawrence manufacturing plant that makes medical test tubes has filed plans to build a more than $10 million expansion that will nearly double the size of its local production facility.
Plastikon Industries has filed plans to construct a nearly 80,000-square-foot production facility and warehouse next to its existing manufacturing plant in the East Hills Business Park.
The plans filed with the city’s ...
