At downtown Lawrence’s Rally House, the hoped-for outcome is right there in its name: a rally. But shoppers for the most part didn’t even stir, let alone rally, on the first day that many “nonessential retailers” were allowed to reopen following an easing of Douglas County’s stay-at-home orders.
At about 2:45 p.m. on Monday, a clerk at the sportswear shop Rally House said the store had one customer ...
I know what the prominent style changes have been in my quarantine-era home: claw marks on the inside of the front door and the elimination of all full-length mirrors. (Wear pants, people.) Normally, though, I’m getting up to date on new housing styles at the Lawrence Spring Parade of Homes. The event — originally scheduled for last weekend and this weekend — is still giving home-lovers a peek at new ...
The downtown Lawrence boutique Striped Cow is getting much bigger. (Join the club. As the saying goes these days, I’ve social distanced from everything but the refrigerator door.) But owner David Jess is betting this is an expansion to get excited about, hopefully even showing how brick-and-mortar retail can compete with online retailers.
As we reported in September, Jess struck a deal to buy the former ...
Story updated 5:50 p.m. Thursday
Douglas County’s estimated unemployment rate is now up to 14.8%, but the number of county residents making new unemployment filings has hit its lowest level since mid-March, when the pandemic began shuttering businesses across the state.
The estimated unemployment rate for the county is up 1.2 percentage points from a 13.6% rate last week, as estimated by the University of ...
The items that Barb Gruber sells through her Lawrence-based promotional products business — key chains, T-shirts and other company giveaways — ordinarily won’t do much to improve a person’s health.
But as Gruber and quite a few other people have noticed, these aren’t ordinary times.
Instead, in these strange times, an industry primarily known for providing businesses with trinkets emblazoned with ...
We now have more detailed data on who is dying from COVID-19 in Kansas. As many suspected, the elderly are suffering the highest number of deaths, but that doesn’t mean you have to be old to get the virus. People between the ages of 35 and 44 have been the most likely to get the disease.
As we reported last week, Kansas Department of Health and Environment officials hadn’t been reporting on the age of ...
