News and notes from around town:
Call it the duck test, if you will. In the Oread neighborhood next to KU, if something looks like a big house — and all too often sounds like a big house — it is usually a big house. The neighborhood after all is full of students, and they love living and congregating in big houses.
With that said, construction work is well underway on a project in the Oread neighborhood ...
Opponents of a 600-acre solar project proposed for north of North Lawrence have amended their lawsuit against Douglas County to include new allegations of impropriety involving County Commissioner Karen Willey.
The lawsuit now alleges that Willey worked behind the scenes to get a nonprofit organization that her husband worked for hired as a consultant on the Kansas Sky Energy Center project. Further, the new ...
KU’s chancellor will have a salary of nearly $700,000 next academic year, as the Kansas Board of Regents on Thursday approved a raise well above what rank-and-file KU employees are set to receive.
University of Kansas Chancellor Douglas Girod received a 6% pay raise as the Regents — who oversee all the state’s public universities — approved new pay packages for leaders at Kansas State, Wichita State, ...
Updated at 9:50 a.m. Friday, June 21
Soon, turnpike toll booth workers will be a job of the past in Kansas, as the turnpike will eliminate all toll booths as part of a cashless tolling system that begins July 1.
But Lawrence is set to have a whole new crop of turnpike jobs emerge. Lawrence has been chosen as a site for a new Kansas Turnpike Authority retail center, which also will house a call center for ...
A surge is coming.
Within a few weeks, electric lines leading into the $4 billion Panasonic electric vehicle battery factory in De Soto will be hot with up to 290 megawatts of electricity. The employment lines at the plant — just about 20 minutes from eastern Lawrence — will be full, with the plant hiring at least 100 new employees per month for the foreseeable future. And the biggest surge will be at the ...
Fortunately, shopping isn’t like swimming. You don’t have to wait 30 minutes since you’ve last eaten. (I’m staying optimistic that day will come.) You can shop on an empty stomach. You can shop on a full stomach.
You can even do both, and if you do, you are in the right frame of mind for downtown Lawrence’s Midsummer Night on Mass event, which is set for Friday.
“People enjoy doing both ends,” ...
