For the University of Kansas’ Gateway project — the $750 million renovation and redevelopment of the football stadium and the area around it — there are big stakes on the horizon. Now, there is a big new private donation on the books, as well. KU on Wednesday announced that Paul and Linda DeBruce — Kansas City entrepreneurs in the agriculture industry — have made a $25 million gift to the Gateway ...
It was checkbook balancing time at Lawrence City Hall on Tuesday, and the records show a pretty clear story for 2024. City expenses grew nearly twice as fast as revenues, and for every new dollar in spending, more than 60 cents of it went to public works projects. City-hired auditors recently completed the city’s official financial statements for 2024, and commissioners received a briefing on the results ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...