According to the pollsters in college basketball, we can legitimately chant, “We’re No. 1!” In the broader world of college towns, add two zeros to that number, and you’ll be right on target. Yes, there is a new report out that ranks Lawrence No. 100 among small college towns in the U.S.
You are right, that doesn’t sound as good in a chant, especially when you consider there were only 200 towns ...
A longtime Lawrence bar and restaurant building that once was home to a fake club soon will be home to a real private club. The building at 530 Wisconsin St., which used to house The Yacht Club, will become the new home for the Eagles club in early 2019.
If you have forgotten, The Yacht Club was a longtime college bar and grill, but it wasn’t actually a private club. Come to find out, you didn’t need to ...
University of Kansas Chancellor Douglas Girod has said KU is officially in “stand-down mode” when it comes to figuring out whether KU basketball coaches acted improperly in the recruiting scandal that is gripping the sport.
The reason, Girod told the Journal-World in November, is because the University of Kansas was awaiting direction from the NCAA. But now, university officials are struggling to show that ...
Douglas County Administrator Craig Weinaug retired Friday. He held the position for 26 years.
“I have loved this job,” he recently told the Journal-World. “I won’t say I’ve loved every minute of it, but I have loved this job for a very long time, and I love this community and county government.”
In national politics there is lots of talk about red America and blue America, but perhaps the more important split is big America and small America. New federal figures show just how much the economies of small-town America are getting hammered, and Kansas got hit harder than most, according to one measurement in the new data.
For the first time ever, the federal government has produced data showing the gross ...
There is really no excuse this Christmas for me to not get something fabulously expensive like a yacht or a nongeneric jar of peanut butter. In past years, I’ve always excused such omissions because I know Lawrence residents have dollars sucked out of their wallets by some of the highest gasoline prices in the state. But this year, we are living in a bizarro world where elves evidently are tall and Santa ...
