Buffets are back. Let that sink in for a moment. In fact, take all the time you need because I want to make sure I beat you to the line (and I’m out of practice running with a shovel.) Any buffet is a step toward a return to normalcy, but I have news of a new restaurant — a bit of a rarity in itself — that features a buffet. That may be a double sign. Globe Indian Food has opened at 619 Massachusetts ...
Updated at 4 p.m. Monday Kansas will get to keep all of its current seats in the U.S. House of Representatives, federal Census data confirmed on Monday, but the state still had its worst population showing since the Great Depression. The data showed Kansas’ population grew at one of the slowest rates in the state’s history. Over the last decade Kansas added only 84,762 people. Its 2020 population stood ...
The University of Kansas’ new chief financial officer said Friday that at least two things were needed in the next school year: another $26 million in budget cuts and some type of plan to get KU growing again. In a campuswide video presentation, CFO Jeff DeWitt said that the days of budget cuts weren’t yet over at KU but that he could see a time when they might be. DeWitt is proposing that KU’s Lawrence ...
Sometimes when I’m at an auction and find an item I really must have, I let my right hand bid against my left hand just to double my chances. Lawrence’s real estate market is taking on that type of feel. You’d better have both bidding fingers ablazin', and even that might not be enough. Lawrence home sales fell significantly in March, but average selling prices took a big jump up, according to the latest ...
The pandemic soon will bring to an end a longtime downtown Lawrence business — but probably not in the way you are thinking. Instead of running Stitch On Needlework Shop, 926 Massachusetts St., out of business, the pandemic is steering the shop’s owner to a new way of thinking about retail. Owner Leslie Ahlert will close the store in July after 37 years of doing traditional retail in downtown Lawrence. She ...
Not only is an appointment for a COVID vaccine no longer as rare as a winning lottery ticket, but appointments soon won’t be required at all in Douglas County. LMH Health next month will start hosting a five-day-per-week drive-thru clinic at the hospital that will allow people to get a vaccination without any advance appointment. There is a simple reason vaccinations have gone from lotto to lots of them. ...