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,” ...
Seats are on track. Beds are not. That may be the simplest update for the University of Kansas’ approximately $450 million Gateway project by the university’s football stadium at 11th and Mississippi streets. Work to add new premium seating, concessions and a host of other bells and whistles to David Booth Kansas Memorial Stadium is on budget and on schedule to be completed by August 2025. The same holds ...
In his 22 years in the Kansas Statehouse, Douglas County lawmaker Tom Holland is certain of one thing: Property taxes are the most hated of taxes by constituents. The Democratic state senator from rural Baldwin City, however, is much less confident that legislators will do anything to address rising property taxes at an upcoming special session of the Kansas Legislature. When that session begins on Tuesday, ...
The halfway mark is in sight. What’s not is a realistic path for the city to meet one of its key budgetary goals. The city of Lawrence this year budgeted for a 5% increase in sales tax revenues over 2023 totals, but through May it has seen revenues grow by less than half of 1%. That said, Lawrence’s sales tax collections are doing better than many of the large retail markets in the state. Of the nine ...
A Republican strategist who filed paperwork nominating a Lawrence lawmaker as a candidate of the No Labels party against her will has acknowledged that the party’s nominating convention was hardly a convention at all. Instead, Kris Van Meteren said in an email on Friday that he simply “elected myself as Chairman,” at a convention that he called himself, and then proceeded to nominate two candidates for ...
Story updated at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, June 6: The Kansas Secretary of State’s office has confirmed it is providing information to the Kansas Attorney General about a possible election crime involving a Republican strategist who claims to be the chair of Kansas’ No Labels party. As the Journal-World reported Wednesday, the Kansas Secretary of State’s office invalidated two No Labels party nominations for ...