Given the number of times I’ve glowingly mentioned Casey’s breakfast pizza in this column, you might think it dangerous to my health to travel to a city with a downtown arena named after the convenience store chain. But I did it, and I’ve returned. Des Moines, Iowa, is home to the Casey’s Center, as the company’s headquarters is located in a suburb of the city. Last week I was part of a local ...
Two consecutive years of record enrollments, more freshmen than ever returning for their sophomore year, and nine straight years of increases in research funding were among the highlights at KU’s State of the University address Thursday. “That is profound for this moment in time,” University of Kansas Chancellor Douglas Girod told a crowd of more than 200 at the Jayhawk Welcome Center. But leaders of ...
Ames, Iowa — Leaders with the City of Ames and with Iowa State University told a Lawrence delegation Tuesday evening that their community has a town/gown relationship unlike many others in the country. Then, city officials proved it by telling the crowd what they get in the mail from the university — a check. Actually, they get multiple checks. First, there is the one the university sends to compensate ...
Ames, Iowa — Iowa cornfields already have a reputation for building it and they will come. Lawrence and Douglas County leaders in Iowa for a chamber of commerce intercity visit on Tuesday weren’t interested in the baseball — "Field of Dreams" — version of that story. Instead, they were more interested in learning what happened when an Iowa cornfield got torn up and reimagined as a business park. In ...
If your hobby is hanging out at Lawrence City Commission candidate forums, you have likely noticed that affordable housing has arguably emerged as the top issue in this campaign. You’ve also likely heard all four candidates — to varying degrees — say that the first step to tackling the affordable housing issue is to simply build more houses. If for some reason hanging out at candidate forums isn’t ...
Lawrence entrepreneur Zarif Haque already has figured out how to navigate the notoriously difficult world of technology startups. His Draiver app — it provides a more efficient delivery system of used cars to dealerships — is now part of one of Mexico’s most rapidly growing companies, Kavak. The app that Haque created as a startup in Lawrence has been a success on almost every level, resulting in a ...