As a state senator, Tom Holland has heard plenty of gun issues. Now, the Baldwin City Democrat is hoping to solve one: injury or death that happens when a gun falls into the wrong hands.
No, before you go there, this isn’t another gun control story about a new law or initiative. Instead, this is a business technology startup story. Holland and Lawrence attorney Brennan Fagan have started a new company that ...
LMH Health has been chosen as the site for a rare sports medicine program that is expected to add another professional to the medical ranks who can care for area athletes.
The Lawrence-based hospital has been approved to offer a Sports Physical Therapy Residency program, making it one of only 58 programs in the entire country and the first in the Midwest. LMH was granted approval to begin offering the program ...
Douglas County’s property tax rate won’t increase as much as once expected, after county commissioners tapped into reserve funds and used a dormant jail expansion account to offset proposed tax increases.
County commissioners on Wednesday tentatively agreed on a 2022 budget that will increase the property tax rate by about 1 mill, which would result in the owner of a $200,000 home paying about $23 more a ...
There’s long been a certain amount of friction involved with most economic development issues in Lawrence. But the one category of projects that historically has had a smooth road to approval were those that focused on high-tech, high-paying jobs.
It is now worth asking whether that road has become bumpy too.
Douglas County commissioners on Wednesday agreed to cut $50,000 in funding from the Bioscience ...
It was a tale of two nonprofits on the first day of deliberations for the 2022 Douglas County budget.
A group of nonprofits that provide social services to area residents tentatively won about $200,000 in additional county funding, while a nonprofit that aims to grow biotech firms in the community faced an unexpected $100,000 cut to its budget.
All three county commissioners on Tuesday presented their ...
From climate change to changing the look of far west Lawrence, it is on the to-do list for the city-county planning department in 2022.
At their meeting Tuesday evening, Lawrence city commissioners signed off on a 2022 work plan for the Lawrence-Douglas County Planning Department that will include a major study of how approximately 2,400 acres west of the South Lawrence Trafficway bypass should be developed in ...
