UPDATED 6:05 P.M. JULY 22
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 ...
A high-ranking visitor on the University of Kansas campus Friday had a suggestion for U.S businesses wondering how to adapt to a brewing worldwide trade war.
Do more business with Zimbabwe.
While the idea maybe isn’t top-of-mind for most U.S. companies, it certainly is for Sarah Bhoroma. She’s the acting Zimbabwean ambassador to the United States, and was in Lawrence on Friday as part of a four-day trip ...
I’ve never thought much about what a surfer packs for lunch. (Something waterproof, I suppose.) Soon, Lawrence diners can explore for themselves as a small chain restaurant that is all about surfer culture opens on south Iowa Street.
Longboards Wraps and Bowls is in the process of opening at 2540 Iowa St., which is the shopping center that houses First Watch and is just north of the Popeyes restaurant. (Now, ...
News and notes from around town, or, perhaps more accurately, from around the football stadium:
— Plans have been filed for what looks like a pretty large, extraordinary home to be built a bit catty-corner from KU’s football stadium.
A site plan recently has been filed at Lawrence City Hall for the vacant lot at 1218 Mississippi St. That address may not be ringing a bell, but chances are good that you ...
UPDATE 4:15 P.M. JULY 14
The first phase of Panasonic Energy’s nearly 5-million-square-foot electric vehicle battery factory is officially open in De Soto and marching toward an impressive production goal: Churning out 70 batteries per second.
But as dignitaries from both Japan and Congress gathered Monday morning for a grand opening celebration, there was a different type of production question that hung ...
