If Lawrence’s economy was a race car, its pit crew would be getting a little more anxious with each passing lap. Their car is falling slightly farther behind as the race nears a critical stage.
That’s certainly one way to look at the latest sales tax numbers released by the Kansas Department of Revenue. The June report showed sales tax collections were lackluster for the one-month period, which caused ...
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University of Kansas Chancellor Douglas Girod will receive a 12% pay increase for the new budget year that begins in July, pushing his total salary to $1 million when both state and private funds are combined.
The Kansas Board of Regents on Friday approved salary increases ranging from 4% to 12% for the leaders of the state’s six public universities.
At a special meeting on ...
Let the meat spinning begin. A downtown restaurant spot is set to go from seafood to shawarma.
A plan has been filed at Lawrence City Hall for a Shawarma Press restaurant to locate at 947 New Hampshire St., which is the spot that previously housed Krustaceans Seafood.
If you are not familiar with shawarma, it is a Middle Eastern style for cooking a variety of meats. It usually involves a spinning rotisserie ...
Anybody who remembers the approximately 20-year effort to win approval for the South Lawrence Trafficway project, likely recalls there’s a formula to the process — first the bureaucrats, then the bulldozers.
That formula still holds, which means this was a big week for an approximately $1.2 billion project that eventually will widen Kansas Highway 10 in Johnson County to six lanes. The project won a key ...
Even as a city grew up around it — and a 2018 fire nearly destroyed it — a site just east of 23rd and Haskell has served as a John Deere dealership for decades. By Friday evening that will come to an end.
A manager with Heritage Tractor confirmed the company is shutting down its Lawrence store, 1110 E. 23rd St., at 5 p.m. on Friday. The company is keeping other area stores open, including its large store ...
In a world of uncertainty, longtime Lawrence developer Doug Compton thinks he’s got one thing figured out: If you are waiting for interest rates to return to their historic lows of 3%, you are going to wait a long time.
“I don’t think you will ever see 3% again,” Compton said of interest rates that are closer to 7% for home loans and many times higher for commercial projects. “You might see 5% again. ...
