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 ...
Let’s do some news and notes from around town:
— I guess the saying is “as easy as taking candy from a baby.” I never bought it. (My kids came with a full set of shark teeth, which made candy removal and braces bills painful.) But I could believe something like “as easy as selling sandwiches to a college student.”
It looks like a new venture in the Oread neighborhood will put the idea to the ...
Pick which set of glasses you want to look through today.
Lawrence is the fourth-fastest growing city in Kansas.
Or, if you prefer, Lawrence is only growing at one-third the rate city leaders expect, and is being outpaced by relatively small communities like Spring Hill, Tonganoxie and Basehor.
Both set of facts are accurate, according to the latest population estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau. ...
For years, there have been people talking about how nice it would be to have a Lawrence business offering food and drink with true waterside seating.
Despite the interest, and even some publicly discussed plans, such an establishment has never developed along the portions of the Kansas River along downtown’s edge.
Maybe the problem has been we’ve been looking at the wrong body of water.
The owners of ...
