Workouts at Lawrence’s Red Dog Days have been known to hurt a little, but the one on the morning of Dec. 14 was particularly rude for local businessman Jeff Hatfield.
Hatfield arrived bright and early for the 6 a.m. community workout, and was greeted oddly by his friend, retired Lawrence fire chief Shaun Coffey.
Coffey said he was surprised to see Hatfield — given that one of his buildings was on fire. ...
Sen. Tom Holland would be fine going from Kansas politician to firearms pioneer.
As I’ve reported before, Holland — a rural Baldwin City Democrat — leads a Douglas County start-up company that hopes to become the first in the country to mass-produce and sell a new type of handgun that uses RFID technology to greatly reduce the odds of accidental shootings.
The company took its biggest step yet this ...
The largest land war in Europe since World War II is complicated in many regards, but the American public’s attitude about it should be very simple, Ukraine’s ambassador to the United Nations said Tuesday in Lawrence.
“I believe everyone who wants to make America great can not allow Ukraine to be defeated,” Sergiy Kyslytsya, Ukraine’s United Nations ambassador, told a Lawrence crowd at the Dole ...
A deal is in the works that may convert Lawrence’s longtime pop/rock radio station 105.9 FM to a Spanish-language radio station.
Kansas City’s largest Spanish language media company — Reyes Media Group — has signed a deal to purchase the 105.9 radio station from its Missouri-based owner for $2.25 million, according to filings made with the Federal Communications Commission.
The FCC filings do not ...
There’s a chance that when construction work on KU’s football stadium renovation concludes in August that the university will immediately start another major construction project to rebuild the east side with a hotel and other amenities.
But Chancellor Douglas Girod told me recently that there is no chance that KU will again ask the football team to play another season in Kansas City or elsewhere. ...
If you could have just one statistic to understand how good it is to be in the air-conditioning industry, it might be this one: About 3 billion people live in the hottest regions of the world, but currently only about 8% of them have air conditioning.
As new middle-class economies emerge in places like China, India, Africa and elsewhere, the industry estimates it will need to produce the equivalent of five air ...
