I’ve long felt a case could be made that cookies should come first. (That’s why I admire the makers of Cookie Crisp cereal. They flat out recommend eating a bowl of cookies to start your morning.) I don’t know that a bowl of cookies is involved, but I do have news of a cookie first. A cookie store will become the first commercial tenant of a mixed use apartment/retail complex on 23rd Street.
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U.S. Sen. Roger Marshall in Lawrence on Saturday expressed some support for vaccine mandates in general — but not for COVID-19.
Marshall, R-Kansas, has emerged as one of the leading voices against President Joe Biden’s pending vaccine mandate for workers at companies with 100 or more employees. On Saturday, Marshall faced a sometimes cheering, sometimes jeering crowd as part of a public forum at Rock Chalk ...
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 ...
