There is confidence, and then there is confidence with a poker chip in your hand. Confidence levels have been known to fall as your hand drops toward the table to place your bet.
In a sense, Douglas County commissioners have that chip in their hands and will start deciding this coming week on whether to place the bet. Whether Douglas County property owners see their tax rates go up is at stake.
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The Lawrence City Commission is scheduled to get the ball rolling on a project that will rebuild a portion of Wakarusa Drive in west Lawrence.
Commissioners at their Tuesday evening meeting are being asked to approve a nearly $400,000 contract for engineering work related to rebuilding Wakarusa Drive between Clinton Parkway and Research Park Way.
City officials are recommending the project due to “severe ...
The “low fuel” light on the F150 was on, and my mind already had jumped to the logical solution for my predicament: I guess I’m driving the lawn mower to work. You see, the gas station I was at for my morning fill-up was completely out of gas.
I’ve heard from enough of you to know that you’ve experienced that a few times too in the last few weeks. I was at a Casey’s that particular morning — and ...
I remember years ago when I covered the news that Garmin — the highly successful, publicly traded GPS company headquartered in Johnson County — had opened an office in the business incubator space on KU’s West Campus.
Garmin may need a few things (like a less judgmental voice when I very, very rarely make a wrong turn), but it certainly doesn’t need to be incubated. Instead, the technology company was ...
Questions emerged Wednesday about the departure of two top executives at Heartland Community Health Center after one disclosed she has hired an attorney regarding a previous racial discrimination complaint against Heartland.
New information about turnover in the top ranks of Heartland — which is a safety-net health care provider in Lawrence — came out at Wednesday’s Douglas County Commission meeting. ...
Local social service organizations received encouraging words on Wednesday that they may get a significant amount of the $23 million in federal pandemic relief funding that has been awarded to Douglas County.
They also may be getting a new county-funded position that aims to better organize and coordinate the multitude of social programs that help with affordable housing, rent and utility assistance.
Douglas ...
