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 ...
As the year draws to a close, leaders at Lawrence Memorial Hospital are getting their arms around a $20 million surprise.
The hospital at the beginning of the year had budgeted to collect about $11 million in profits from the hospital’s basic businesses. Instead, LMH is on pace to post about a $10 million operating loss.
Add those together, and that is a more than $20 million of unexpected bad news. ...
A $17 million mystery has been solved in the City of Lawrence’s utility department, but, no, the answer isn’t going to lead to any breaks on your rising water bill.
City Hall officials have acknowledged that they made a bookkeeping error of about $17 million that artificially inflated — for at least two budget years — the amount of money that showed up in the city’s water and sewer utility fund. ...
I’ve found that a few beers around a roaring fireplace can be good entertainment — especially if everyone remembers the key phrase “stop, drop and roll.” West Lawrence residents may get to check out some of that fun, as an East Lawrence brewery has opened a westside location.
We reported in March that Lawrence Beer Company filed plans to open a location near the shopping center at Bob Billings Parkway ...
Plain and simple, the mayor of Lawrence wants marijuana to be legal.
In March, Lawrence city commissioners went about as far as they could go on that front. They lowered the fine for possessing 32 grams or less of marijuana to just $1 — not only for your first offense but also your second.
The penalty for marijuana possession was lowered after a lot of discussion about how justice wasn’t being equally ...
