While we haven’t yet been able to rip off those masks, there are new signs that Lawrence’s economy has become unshackled from pandemic-era restrictions. In fact, one set of numbers shows retail spending is now well above pre-pandemic levels.
The Kansas Department of Revenue has released its May report on sales tax activity across the state. While the report is labeled as being for May, most of the numbers ...
In a completely different time, it was the masked men that you always wondered about. What are they hiding? Now it is the unmasked that create the question of our age: Are they really vaccinated?
It seems like that is the question holding back Douglas County from joining the legions of communities that have dumped their mask mandates. Commissioners last week declined to accept a recommendation from the ...
I want to clear up some understandable confusion that hovered around the Journal-World for much of Thursday.
Some of you may have seen posts or heard reports that the Journal-World signed a letter asking Gov. Laura Kelly to end $300-a-week unemployment benefits that currently are being paid to jobless Kansans. The existence of the letter was recently reported by The Associated Press, which said that about 180 ...
Corporate America is ready if Lawrence is. While local residents may have a divided mind over whether Douglas County should end its mask mandate, the community’s largest corporate retailers seemingly don’t have any such hesitancy.
Many of the largest retailers in the community have sent out press releases in recent days saying customers and employees who have been vaccinated don’t have to wear masks ...
Maybe Lawrence residents have started to notice that some of their neighbors are smiling excessively, doing happy dances in their front lawns and occasionally are having a hard time keeping their piles of cash from blowing out their front doors. Well, that may not exactly be the scene for everyone putting their Lawrence homes on the market, but it is in the right genre.
And such scenes might finally start to ...
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. ...
