I want to clear up some understandable confusion that hovered around the Journal-World for much of Thursday.
Some of you may have seen posts or heard reports that the Journal-World signed a letter asking Gov. Laura Kelly to end $300-a-week unemployment benefits that currently are being paid to jobless Kansans. The existence of the letter was recently reported by The Associated Press, which said that about 180 ...
Corporate America is ready if Lawrence is. While local residents may have a divided mind over whether Douglas County should end its mask mandate, the community’s largest corporate retailers seemingly don’t have any such hesitancy.
Many of the largest retailers in the community have sent out press releases in recent days saying customers and employees who have been vaccinated don’t have to wear masks ...
Maybe Lawrence residents have started to notice that some of their neighbors are smiling excessively, doing happy dances in their front lawns and occasionally are having a hard time keeping their piles of cash from blowing out their front doors. Well, that may not exactly be the scene for everyone putting their Lawrence homes on the market, but it is in the right genre.
And such scenes might finally start to ...
Say what you will about Congresswoman Elise Stefanik, who on Friday was elected to the No. 3 GOP leadership position amid the never-ending political debate about Republican loyalty to Donald Trump.
In a Democratic stronghold like Lawrence, you can imagine what most of those comments are regarding the young Republican from New York who has become a new national voice for Trumpism. Say what’s on your mind. ...
It is not often that a sentence begins with the phrase “if Lawrence and Topeka would have fallen in love with each other 50 years ago.”
But, indeed, that’s the picture Matt Pivarnik, chief executive of the economic development organization Topeka Partnership, was asking members of a Lawrence and Topeka crowd to envision on Thursday.
If that love affair had materialized, he said, he believed the two ...
I was not a geography major in college, but I did understand it well enough to know that KU’s decision to start its graduation ceremony at the top of a hill was an advantage to me: If I ran down it, I might beat the administrators who realized they had made a mistake.
These days, I worry what I would be trying to outrun is student debt. College was far less expensive during my college times, and student debt ...
