Reading a government’s financial audit can be a bit like reading Tolstoy: It is thick, dense and sometimes leaves you wanting vodka. But, it also can provide a good look at the big picture.
The City of Lawrence’s financial audit for 2023 is complete, and city commissioners will get a briefing of the document — which is the city’s official scorecard for its finances — at their Tuesday meeting.
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About once a decade, I seem to write about an idea to create a locally based venture capital fund.
Usually, some promising young company has just left the community to grow somewhere else. The question turns to: Why wouldn’t they stay in Lawrence? The answer often is money. They need money to expand, and there are no venture capital funds in Lawrence. But there are a lot on the coasts, and thus those ...
News and notes from around town:
— It almost wouldn’t be fair to the wallets of Lawrence parents to put an ice cream shop virtually within sight distance of four schools. But that indeed may be one plan for a developing commercial center in west Lawrence.
Construction work is well underway on Stone Hawk Square, a new retail center near Clinton Parkway and Inverness Drive. If you are having a hard time ...
Getting a degree from a university can be a good strategy to earn a living wage, and then some. But if you're working at a university, well, a living wage can be a little more hit or miss.
At least that has been the experience at the University of Kansas, but officials now have come up with a plan to provide raises to the approximately 190 KU employees who were found to be earning less than a living wage. ...
Inflation is going down, and so too is the size of the pay raises at the University of Kansas.
According to new documents with the Kansas Board of Regents, most KU faculty and staff members will receive a 2% raise for the next school year. That’s down from a recent high of 5% in 2022, when inflation levels were running hotter. It also is down slightly from a 2.5% cost-of-living increase last year.
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Lawrence City Manager Craig Owens understands that residents are particularly focused on one part of his 2025 recommended budget — the proposed 3.5 mill property tax rate increase.
If approved, the 3.5 mill increase would be the city’s largest property tax rate increase in at least 50 years. While that is an eye-catcher, Owens does wish the public would pay a bit more attention to one other line that was ...
