Right out of college, a medical emergency landed Janice Early in Lawrence Memorial Hospital for three weeks, including a stay over Christmas. The experience and care she received stuck with her.
Years later, when she was working in Kansas City and saw an advertisement for LMH’s director of community relations, she knew what she needed to do.
“I immediately thought, ‘I have to have that job because that ...
Maybe we all decided to buy our football tailgating supplies at the same time. (Is that why Taco Bell refused to fill my stock tank with nacho cheese sauce?) Or maybe there is some other explanation, but the start of fall ended up being the start of a new spending season in both Lawrence and across the state, according to the latest sales tax report.
Lawrence recently received its November sales tax check from ...
It makes sense that fall is the time homes start feeling a little cramped. The garage is full of Halloween candy and the free-range Thanksgiving turkey is roaming in the living room. (They say they’re healthier for you, but my blood pressure rises every time he messes with the remote.) Maybe that cramped feeling is what led to a surge in Lawrence home sales in October.
Or maybe not. Regardless, homes sales ...
Diane Bui, owner of Lawrence Pawn & Jewelry, actually is an electrical engineer by training. That’s good, because she said she needs some fast-firing circuits to know which deals to make and which deals to reject at the pawn counter.
“I have to be able to quickly assimilate information,” Bui said. “Unlike those TV shows like Pawn Stars, I don’t have experts in the back room.”
But Bui does ...
As city officials were responding to the news of a $17 million misstatement in the city’s utility fund, a Lawrence city commissioner revealed new information that showed the severity of problems that the city’s finance department has been trying to correct for years.
Commissioner Stuart Boley said recently that in October of 2014, the city missed making a bond payment that was due on city debt. The missed ...
News and notes from around downtown Lawrence:
• The pizza and Philly cheesesteak restaurant Grinders is in the process of closing its downtown Lawrence restaurant. Again. This time it appears to be for good.
Grinders is the creation of Kansas City hipster restaurateur Jeffrey Rumaner, who prefers to go simply by the name Stretch. You may remember that Grinders closed its Lawrence restaurant in July, but ...
