A publicly-traded company that provides all sorts of “smart home” technology, has filed plans to convert a long-vacant building in downtown Lawrence into a new office home for about 70 of its high-tech, high-paid employees. The Nasdaq-traded tech firm Alarm.com is seeking financial incentives from the City of Lawrence to redevelop a portion of the former Journal-World printing plant at Sixth and ...
Soon, the vote counting will begin in the Lawrence City Commission race. But as is the case in nearly all elections, the money counting begins even earlier, and we now have our first look at where the candidates stand in terms of campaign contributions heading into Tuesday’s primary election. The three most experienced candidates in the field indeed have three of the top four spots in the fundraising ...
Story updated at 8:35 p.m. Wednesday, July 30: Staffing is in flux at Lawrence’s Hilltop Child Development Center in the wake of findings of child abuse and ongoing state investigations at the KU-operated center. Investigators with the Kansas Department of Health and Environment have found that a teacher at Hilltop’s main campus location “would humiliate children by spraying them with a squirt bottle to ...
A hotly debated topic in the Kansas Legislature may soon produce a hotly debated topic in faculty lounges: How much work should a university professor be required to do? The Kansas Board of Regents plans to soon undertake a review of faculty “workload policies” at the University of Kansas and other state universities, the Regents informally decided at their annual retreat on Wednesday. Regents ...
More than 20,000 job titles in the ranks of Kansas government have been searched and — if needed — scrubbed of words such as diversity, equity and inclusion, the state’s Secretary of Administration confirmed Tuesday. Not only have the titles changed, but any employees who had duties related to diversity, equity and inclusion programs have had their jobs reworked. “We are confident those positions do ...
The students are coming. It is unclear whether the dollars will. The University of Kansas expects its overall enrollment to set a new record when classes begin next month, Chancellor Douglas Girod said Tuesday at a summer retreat for the Kansas Board of Regents. But the ritual of starting a new school year wasn’t the one most on the minds of higher education leaders gathered for the three-day retreat at ...