Say what you will about Congresswoman Elise Stefanik, who on Friday was elected to the No. 3 GOP leadership position amid the never-ending political debate about Republican loyalty to Donald Trump. In a Democratic stronghold like Lawrence, you can imagine what most of those comments are regarding the young Republican from New York who has become a new national voice for Trumpism. Say what’s on your mind. ...
It is not often that a sentence begins with the phrase “if Lawrence and Topeka would have fallen in love with each other 50 years ago.” But, indeed, that’s the picture Matt Pivarnik, chief executive of the economic development organization Topeka Partnership, was asking members of a Lawrence and Topeka crowd to envision on Thursday. If that love affair had materialized, he said, he believed the two ...
I was not a geography major in college, but I did understand it well enough to know that KU’s decision to start its graduation ceremony at the top of a hill was an advantage to me: If I ran down it, I might beat the administrators who realized they had made a mistake. These days, I worry what I would be trying to outrun is student debt. College was far less expensive during my college times, and student debt ...
Sports are big business in Lawrence. College partying is even bigger. A new downtown Lawrence bar and restaurant plans to get in on both industries, and soon may have at least three floors of space — including a rooftop seating area — to do it from. Logie’s on Mass has opened at 728 Massachusetts St. in the building that used to house the Tonic nightclub, which primarily was known as a college bar. ...
Updated at 4 p.m. Friday The president of Haskell Indian Nations University has been removed from office following an internal investigation and criticism that he was stifling free speech rights of students and faculty. Brandon Yellowbird-Stevens, president of the Haskell National Board of Regents, confirmed the removal of President Ronald Graham. Haskell’s student newspaper, The Indian Leader, also ...
UPDATED: 2:45 p.m. May 6, 2021 If a film were made about my days living in a college apartment, it would have been a horror flick. A completely innocent protagonist (me, of course) caught between two monsters — an angry pile of dirty dishes in half the rooms and a stinking pile of laundry in the other half. (Remember, I’m innocent, though.) I don’t know that any films are going to be made, but plans have ...