As a 16-year old in Overland Park, Jawad Albadawi watched what his parents — immigrants from Syria — were doing. His dad was working 20-hour shifts with Uber and his mom was working any number of odd jobs to make ends meet.
Albadawi knew the one thing he wasn’t going to do: Nothing.
“I was like, I’m not just going to sit here and not do anything,” Albadawi said.
So, he joined Facebook.
No, he ...
With half the year in the books, the number of homes sold in Lawrence is way up, but, in a twist, selling prices are up only moderately.
The latest report from the Lawrence Board of Realtors shows Lawrence home sales through June totaled 546, up 13.3% from the same period a year ago. That big jump is in contrast to what is happening both regionally and nationally.
Across the country, home sales are basically ...
One of the country’s top advocacy groups for freedom of expression said a new pronoun policy at the University of Kansas produces “grave” constitutional concerns, and plans to lobby the Kansas Board of Regents for changes.
An attorney for FIRE — the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression — told the Journal-World that a policy aimed at preventing university employees from using preferred ...
UPDATED 3 P.M. JULY 23
KU faces no immediate loss of state funding if it declines to comply with a state proviso prohibiting the use of preferred pronouns, such as "he/him," "she/her" or "they/them," in email signature lines, the Journal-World has learned.
A state employee with detailed knowledge of the state budget proviso in question confirmed to the Journal-World that legislators did not attach any funding ...
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University of Kansas employees with official KU email accounts soon will be prohibited from listing their preferred pronouns — he/she and they/them, for example — as part of their email signature lines.
KU Chancellor Douglas Girod sent an email to KU faculty and staff members Tuesday notifying them that signature lines that communicate which pronouns the sender prefers were ...
A growing Kansas City-based chain of ice cream shops that claims to have a grandma as a secret weapon is coming to Lawrence.
Betty Rae’s Ice Cream has filed paperwork at Lawrence City Hall for a permit for a west Lawrence location. The company hasn’t yet confirmed on its website or social media that it is coming to Lawrence, but a representative of the company told me more details about its Lawrence plans ...
