Years ago, tourism leaders used to call every weekend that featured a home KU football game a million-dollar weekend. I don’t know what impact price inflation and fan deflation have had on that figure, but the point is still the same: The local economy gets a big-dollar boost by spending from football fans.
So it shouldn’t be a surprise that the latest retail sales figures for Lawrence show that September ...
The pandemic has delayed much this year, but leaders at LMH Health have decided it should speed up one thing — pay raises at the hospital.
At a special meeting Thursday evening, LMH’s board of trustees approved a 2.5% pay increase for hospital employees for 2021. But instead of waiting until the new year, the board agreed to make the pay increase effective on Dec. 13. In addition, the hospital has decided ...
If this Saturday you see a Wells Fargo stagecoach driving down Massachusetts Street, you really won’t need to start wondering what was in that eggnog you just drank. Your eyes won’t be playing tricks on you. It will just be a small bit of Christmas cheer on a day that usually has a huge amount of it in downtown Lawrence.
Saturday is the day that normally would bring 40,000 to 50,000 people to downtown and ...
If Clark Griswold from the the classic comedy “National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation” wrote a business plan, surely it would look something like this: More than a mile’s worth of Christmas lights strung through a couple of downtown Lawrence buildings, and an old camper parked out front for good measure.
That is indeed the scene at Snow Globe, a new pop-up bar and restaurant from a couple of Lawrence ...
There certainly have been times I’ve entered a bank branch worried that my account will be empty. Now, it appears there are times I may enter a bank branch to find the actual branch empty — as in no employees. Indeed, Bank of America is opening a new type of branch in Lawrence.
The company on Monday will open a new branch at 4701 Bauer Farm Drive. If you are having a hard time picturing the location, it ...
The one-block stretch of 14th Street between Ohio and Tennessee long has created dilemmas for Lawrence police officers.
It is the center of a bar district at the edge of the University of Kansas campus, so you can imagine the types of questions a police officer has to wrestle with while on patrol there.
Here’s one, though, for the pandemic age: Just hours after the local health department urgently issues a ...
