Cross one more month off the calendar and add about $400,000 to the potential windfall Lawrence City Hall may have by the end of the year.
The latest sales tax numbers from the state of Kansas show that Lawrence is still on track to have sales tax collections come in about $4 million greater than budgeted in 2021. The October report — which due to normal reporting delays actually measures sales made ...
I guess you could say we have a modern-day Hamburglar on our hands. A false Groupon ad for Lawrence’s Burgers by Biggs that we reported on earlier this week indeed was the act of a criminal and has become the subject of a criminal complaint, Groupon told me.
I’m not sure how likely it is that anyone is going to get apprehended for the fraud, but Groupon said it has refunded the money of every customer who ...
There indeed is still a west Lawrence home where you can get a quick fix of the tropics regardless of the season, thanks to several artificial palm trees in the yard. And now, there is some possibility — at least for the moment — that your or your neighbor’s yard could have them too.
You may recall in March that we reported that the home at 5113 Cedar Grove Way stood out because it had four full-sized ...
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Sometimes a deal that is too good to be true is easy to spot, and Doug Holiday spotted this one fairly quickly. A customer was expecting to get $70 worth of food and drinks at Lawrence’s Burgers by Biggs for $39 because she had purchased a Groupon deal.
What was the key to spotting this too-good-to-be-true deal? That’s easy. Holiday is the owner of Burgers by Biggs, and he had never ...
A financial battle between Lawrence’s only hospital and the state’s largest health insurance network has left thousands of area residents uncertain about whether they should keep their longstanding health insurance plans for 2022.
But University of Kansas employees and other State of Kansas workers have been given a temporary reprieve on figuring out whether Blue Cross Blue Shield of Kansas and LMH Health ...
KU Provost Barbara Bichelmeyer had been on the Lawrence campus for a grand total of nine days before she started working to shut it down.
It was the beginning of the pandemic, of course, and it won’t be a time any university administrator soon forgets. But when Bichelmeyer looks back at that time, there is another event a few weeks later that often stands out. It was a conversation with a Kansas City friend ...
