The final batch of financial numbers for 2019 didn’t change the diagnosis for Lawrence’s nonprofit hospital: It was a rough year for LMH Health.
The hospital posted a $15.8 million operating loss for 2019, its first losing year in more than a decade. To make matters worse, the hospital had budgeted to make an approximately $11 million operating profit in 2019. Add it all up and LMH had a nearly $27 million ...
There was a time when the only skyscraper in Lawrence was a windmill. (Don’t rent the penthouse suite in that one, unless you like to be dizzy.)
The windmill was 64 feet tall with blades that measured nearly 35 feet. It dominated Mount Oread in the days before Fraser Hall. Now, the old windmill is largely forgotten, unless you are a local history buff. A new restaurant is aiming to change that.
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Power tools and health care aren’t commonly paired together, unless doctors are trying to explain what they'll do to my arteries if I don’t cut down on the sweets. But I’ve got a story that legitimately pairs them today. One of Lawrence’s largest tool and equipment rental companies is leaving its longtime home to make way for a major expansion of a nonprofit health care provider.
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A new year has ended an old trend at Lawrence City Hall. The city released its first sales tax report of 2020, and it shows not only did sales tax collections fall for the month, but so too did the amount of special sales taxes the city collects from online sales. That online decline was the first in more than a year for Lawrence.
The report detailed the amount of sales taxes the city received from the state ...
Every time I’ve tried to figure out whether the chicken or the egg came first, I’ve never gotten past the research stage of a plate of scrambled eggs and a basket of chicken fingers. Now, it appears my research is going to be even more difficult. One of Lawrence’s relatively new chain chicken restaurants has closed.
Zaxby’s hung a sign on the door of its lone Lawrence location at 4661 Bauer Farm Drive ...
Lawrence is set to feel the pain from one beleaguered retailer: Kmart, which is closing its Lawrence distribution center. But the city might get an employment boost from another long-struggling retailer that seems poised to make a major job announcement in Lawrence. The company may surprise you: Payless Shoesource.
Two sources have confirmed to me that Payless has reached a deal to relocate virtually all of ...
