The potential for financial woe at the Watkins Museum of History seems a little bit less than it did weeks ago when the downtown museum was contemplating its 2022 budget.
No, Douglas County commissioners on Tuesday — the second day of budget hearings for the county — did not express support for an $85,000 funding request from Watkins that was aimed to shore up the operations of the museum and avoid staff ...
There are now signs that the economic recovery in Lawrence and Douglas County has a roar to it, at least when it comes to retail spending.
The state released its latest sales tax numbers — which cover sales made largely in April — and they show Lawrence cash registers were ringing during the month. Local sales tax collections were up 33% compared to the same time period a year ago.
Of course, April 2020 ...
Douglas County commissioners on Monday completed their first day of budget hearings, and didn’t give many clues about whether they are on board with a recommended budget that would increase the property tax rate.
“We still have a lot of hearings before we know where we are going to land on that,” Douglas County Commission Chair Shannon Portillo said.
Commissioners also may be interested in listening in ...
I have breakfast on my mind, which is less of a mess than I usually make with breakfast. There are at least three new developments on the Lawrence breakfast front worth keeping an eye on. Here’s a look:
— I sure hope the “springs” in Blue Springs, Mo., flow with maple syrup. A crew of Hy-Vee employees in Blue Springs made 13,000 pancakes in a single day last week. Why? Well, to get listed in the ...
You don’t have to be a rocket scientist to figure out how to lower the cost of higher education in Kansas.
Just create a program that gives two free years of education to future rocket scientists.
And to elementary teachers and health care workers and IT professionals and dozens of other technical and blue collar professions as well.
Kansas lawmakers indeed have created such a scholarship program, and ...
One of downtown Lawrence’s premier events is looking to cool off. Officials with Downtown Lawrence Inc. have announced that they are moving the Downtown Lawrence Sidewalk Sale from its usually blazing-hot date in July to early September.
Sally Zogry, executive director of Downtown Lawrence Inc., told me part of the decision was related to the pandemic, but part of it was just a growing sense that a ...
