Maybe Lawrence homebuyers in April already had a key aspect of our new lives figured out: If forced to live with a stay-at-home order, you will want to do so in a better home. (Pandemic philosophy: Your nothingness becomes smaller if you do it in a larger space.) Whether it was that realization or something else, local home sales were strong in April, despite any pandemic-related fears.
In a sign that may be ...
Unless you are really good at riding with no hands, having a cup of coffee while on a bicycle might be tough. (Obviously, one hand must be free to keep the admirers of the spandex outfit at a distance.) But that doesn’t mean coffee and cycling don’t go together. Lawrence’s largest bike shop may show how.
Sunflower Outdoor & Bike Shop has filed plans with City Hall to add a coffee bar to the ...
A combination of pizza, doughnuts and gasoline have been known to jump-start me on occasion. Now, the trio may do the same for a planned west Lawrence shopping center. Casey’s General Store has filed plans to build its third store in Lawrence, this one near the Bob Billings Parkway interchange on the South Lawrence Trafficway.
Prior to August, the Casey’s convenience store chain didn’t have any locations ...
Douglas County’s unemployment rate is now estimated to be at about 16%, which makes it more than 2.5 times higher than at any point in the modern era.
KU economist and researcher Donna Ginther continues to use state data to make weekly estimates of unemployment rates for every county in the state. For the week ending May 2, Douglas County had an unemployment rate of 15.7%. It continues to have the second ...
Until Thursday, Silvio De Sousa and Billy Preston were publicly regarded as the only Jayhawks involved in the current NCAA allegations against the University of Kansas.
But a section of the NCAA’s response, released by KU on Thursday, indicates that there may have been a third.
A heavily redacted portion of the report raises questions about whether a representative of former KU player Cheick Diallo received ...
Lawrence restaurants aren’t fully open yet, but already some of you have been asking whether their employees will be required to wear masks when they do start serving dine-in customers again.
Formal guidelines haven’t yet been announced by local public health officials, but if a group of restaurant leaders have their way, diners are going to be seeing masks at every turn and table.
Rick Martin, co-chair ...
