It was about this time in 2023 that the seeds of Lawrence City Hall’s 2025 budget problems were planted.
They weren’t intentionally planted, but nonetheless, the summer of 2023 played a big role in the current city budget woes that have led City Manager Craig Owens to recommend a 3.5 mill property tax rate increase, which would be the largest such increase for Lawrence city government in at least 50 years. ...
Lawrence city commissioners are being asked to approve the city’s largest property tax rate increase in at least 50 years to help fund everything from increased sidewalk maintenance to raises for city employees.
But a Journal-World review of the proposed 2025 City of Lawrence budget found that the majority of the money from the tax increase wouldn’t go to those projects or any other such initiative. ...
Maybe a concoction that combines noodles and ice cream is the recipe that will bring the world together.
The drink — which also has rose-flavored milk, basil seeds, jelly and other ingredients — is called falooda, and the owner of the newly opened Boba & Beyond shop on West Sixth Street is betting that it will be the biggest surprise and one of the most popular items on the shop’s menu.
“It is a ...
Allegations that a Douglas County commissioner sought favors for her husband and a co-worker in connection with a proposed 600-acre solar farm project are false, a county attorney said via a legal filing.
County officials last week formally responded to a lawsuit challenging county approvals of the Kansas Sky Energy Center, a massive utility project that would place about 8 million square feet of solar panels ...
There’s a new idea for one of the most prominent intersections in Douglas County — about 500 units of affordable housing.
Plans have been filed at Lawrence City Hall to change a portion of the 177-acre mixed-use development planned for the intersection of U.S. 59 and the South Lawrence Trafficway. Instead of building a couple of hotels and some medical office buildings along the southern edge of the ...
There’s a new Senate district in Kansas, and it pairs up northwest Lawrence with large parts of east Topeka. It also has attracted a full field of candidates seeking to fill the new seat that was created as part of the once-per-decade redistricting process that state law requires.
Kansas Senate District 19 has three Democrats vying for the seat, and two Republicans. In Lawrence, the district covers the area ...
