As University of Kansas leaders undertake a major study to determine possible pay increases, it is uncertain whether a new union representing KU faculty will emerge and be part of the process.
In November, a group affiliated with the American Federation of Teachers and the American Association of University Professors announced it was taking the necessary steps to form a union to represent the approximately ...
City officials can picture the day when big Boeing 737 jets are landing at the Lawrence Regional Airport in North Lawrence.
Now, they want to know whether aviation experts can also picture it.
The city has agreed to hire a consultant to conduct an approximately $100,000 feasibility study on whether the runway and other infrastructure at the city-owned airport could be expanded to house large commercial ...
One of the most important statistics in Lawrence has long been the number of college students who descend upon the city for the start of a new school year.
It helps determine issues from big to small — how often the cash registers may ring at local businesses to how many motorists we may encounter driving the wrong way on Kentucky or Tennessee streets.
As the school year approaches, the number may be more ...
Lawrence is having a drive-thru coffee boom, and I’m not sure yet of all the impacts from it. (Is a double espresso a mitigating factor in a speeding ticket? How about a small bladder?)
Regardless, the latest planned entrant into Lawrence’s drive-thru coffee market is bringing some innovation to the scene. Instead of constructing a brand new building on a commercial lot, it hopes to win city approval to ...
University of Kansas Chancellor Douglas Girod is set to get a 4% pay increase for the coming school year, which is a somewhat larger raise than most KU employees are slated to receive.
The Kansas Board of Regents on Thursday approved pay increases for Girod and the other presidents and CEOs of the state’s six Regents universities.
Girod will receive about a $25,000 pay increase, bringing his base salary to ...
By late 2024, the University of Kansas hopes to be providing in-person classes to more than 100 students at a university in mainland China.
The Kansas Board of Regents on Wednesday approved a plan for KU to begin teaching undergraduate and graduate-level education courses at the Zhejiang Normal University in Jinhua, a city in eastern China of about 7 million people.
KU Chancellor Douglas Girod said KU became ...
A crowd of about 70 real estate agents had a topic on their minds when Lawrence Mayor Lisa Larsen attended their luncheon meeting on Tuesday — homelessness.
The topic was on the minds of Realtors because it certainly is on the minds of potential homebuyers. One agent said he’s recently had two out-of-town clients hire him to find homes in Lawrence only to give him instructions to start looking at the ...
When about a hundred local real estate agents gathered in a west Lawrence conference room on Thursday, they expected to hear an update on the massive building project underway at the Panasonic battery plant in De Soto.
They ended up hearing almost as much about another building project underway. This one, however, doesn’t involve any hammers and nails.
Twisting of arms, though, might be involved.
Local ...
Lawrence, you’ve certainly said you want minigolf.
“On the Facebook communities and stuff, you are always hearing people say, at least once a quarter, ‘someone should do minigolf,” Lawrence entrepreneur Matt Baysinger told me.
Well, Lawrence, soon you are going to get two stories of it.
I reported last week that Baysinger and his Kansas City-based company Swell Spark had signed a deal to buy the ...
The name, of course, is Panasonic, but there are days it feels more like Panasecret for those who are trying to predict the regional impact of the company’s 4,000-job battery plant in De Soto.
But some key details are starting to emerge on the $4 billion project, and for communities like Lawrence and Eudora, none may be more important than the estimated number of plant employees who are expected to move to ...
News and notes from around town, with a special emphasis on Lawrence’s housing scene:
— It might be fun to live on a street named Research Park Drive. (Upon hearing my address, people would exclaim that they hope it’s cranial research they are conducting.) Regardless, that old business park address may indeed become a new single-family neighborhood.
Plans have been filed at Lawrence City Hall to ...
Some people on the coasts say Kansas is flyover country. Perhaps, but if dogs ran the world, I think there is a chance that we might be the Florida of the canine universe. If that were so, Tonganoxie might be making its play to be Orlando.
Eastern Kansas has a lot of pet food plants, and now nearby Tonganoxie is poised to become a bigger player in the industry. The city of about 5,500 people northeast of ...
News and notes from up and down Sixth Street:
— More than 30 years of Lawrence restaurant tradition hangs in the balance. The longtime westside restaurant and bar Henry’s T’s announced on Monday that it has closed its lone Lawrence location near Sixth and Kasold.
But the restaurant hopes to find a new location in Lawrence to reopen the establishment that was known for its wings, burgers and beer. ...
For more than three years, a group of customers of the Lawrence Kia dealership have been arguing that they were victims of a loan scheme that involved false information being submitted to lenders.
In the legal proceedings that followed, evidence even emerged that one of the dealership’s owners had the nickname of “Picasso” because fellow employees believed he forged the signatures of so many customers. ...
Here are some news and notes from around town:
— A Kansas City-based auto dealer is on the way out, while one with both Kansas City and Lawrence connections is set to replace it.
McCarthy Nissan of Lawrence is in the process of exiting the Lawrence market, while Dream Nissan — which has a dealership in the area near the Legends shopping district of Kansas City, Kansas — is set to take its place. ...
Home sales in Lawrence continue to fall, and now are doing so at a rate significantly faster than our neighbors in the Kansas City metro area.
But on the flip side, housing prices are beginning to fall, and they too are dropping at a rate faster than in Kansas City communities.
Lawrence home sales dropped by 45% in April, according to the latest figures from the Lawrence Board of Realtors. There were just 63 ...
Restaurant trends in Lawrence have been known to swing like the pendulum on a clock. When it comes to Mexican restaurants, though, it may be more like a wrecking ball on the end of a cable.
Indeed, two Mexican restaurant buildings soon will be demolished, according to plans filed at Lawrence City Hall.
One project has long been in the works — the much-talked-about Whataburger restaurant has officially ...
After more than $40 million in budget cuts in recent years, administrators at the University of Kansas have pledged to take a different approach to budgeting.
KU leaders last week provided the most in-depth look yet at the budget for fiscal year 2024, which begins in July. The highlights stand out: For the second year in a row, KU is not proposing a budget cut, and also for the second straight year KU plans to ...
When we reported in February that the auto salvage yard near the fairgrounds was closing, I was skeptical of how long it would take to remove the hundreds of broken-down vehicles from the 9-acre lot.
(As I’ve told my neighbors many times, gravity will get a car off of blocks, but then the next step gets confusing.)
In the end, though, it only took a few weeks to clear the former LKQ salvage yard site, ...
If you wanted to fry an egg on a Lawrence sidewalk, there long has been an obvious day to do it: the third Thursday of July, which is the traditional date for the Downtown Lawrence Sidewalk Sale.
As a journalist, I can tell you TV crews and others have done such pieces over the years to illustrate how hot it is during the shopping extravaganza. And, of course, it is humanly impossible to count the number of ...
