Douglas County commissioners on Monday completed their first day of budget hearings, and didn’t give many clues about whether they are on board with a recommended budget that would increase the property tax rate.
“We still have a lot of hearings before we know where we are going to land on that,” Douglas County Commission Chair Shannon Portillo said.
Commissioners also may be interested in listening in ...
I have breakfast on my mind, which is less of a mess than I usually make with breakfast. There are at least three new developments on the Lawrence breakfast front worth keeping an eye on. Here’s a look:
— I sure hope the “springs” in Blue Springs, Mo., flow with maple syrup. A crew of Hy-Vee employees in Blue Springs made 13,000 pancakes in a single day last week. Why? Well, to get listed in the ...
You don’t have to be a rocket scientist to figure out how to lower the cost of higher education in Kansas.
Just create a program that gives two free years of education to future rocket scientists.
And to elementary teachers and health care workers and IT professionals and dozens of other technical and blue collar professions as well.
Kansas lawmakers indeed have created such a scholarship program, and ...
One of downtown Lawrence’s premier events is looking to cool off. Officials with Downtown Lawrence Inc. have announced that they are moving the Downtown Lawrence Sidewalk Sale from its usually blazing-hot date in July to early September.
Sally Zogry, executive director of Downtown Lawrence Inc., told me part of the decision was related to the pandemic, but part of it was just a growing sense that a ...
An unexpected repair to the Bowersock Dam is likely to produce a noticeable drop in water levels along a key stretch of the Kansas River near downtown Lawrence.
Sarah Hill-Nelson, an owner of the Bowersock Mills & Power Company, said an inflatable bladder on the dam has unexpectedly failed and needs some urgent repairs. The bladder is used to control the height of the dam, which allows operators of the dam ...
There won’t be an ambulance filled with $2.6 million traveling from the Douglas County Courthouse on the south end of Massachusetts Street to City Hall on the north end.
But it is a fitting picture nonetheless for a proposed property tax rate increase that Douglas County commissioners are being asked to approve as part of the 2022 budget.
County Administrator Sarah Plinsky on Thursday unveiled a ...
