The number of the day at the Kansas Board of Regents was $25,000.
University of Kansas Chancellor Douglas Girod, along with the presidents of Kansas State and Wichita State, each received a $25,000 raise from the Regents ahead of the upcoming school year.
Girod’s increase was the smallest on a percentage basis, but the boost put the KU leader in rarified air nonetheless. The raise pushed Girod’s total ...
Maybe Lawrence has been the canary in the coal mine.
For much of 2026, we’ve been reporting how Lawrence has been the unfortunate exception to the rule. While the state’s large retail markets were posting gains in the amount of sales taxes they were collecting, Lawrence was not. When we reported on the statistics last month, Lawrence was the only major retail market in the state that had seen its sales tax ...
A top Kansas academic administrator and former president of a private, Catholic university has been chosen as the next chief executive of the Kansas Board of Regents, which oversees KU and the state’s other public higher education institutions.
The Regents on Tuesday voted to name Jennifer Bonds-Raacke the next president and CEO of the Regents system. Bonds-Raacke currently serves as a senior staff member in ...
The issue of when elected officials are expected to explain why they voted the way they did doesn’t come up often as a campaign issue.
But the question emerged this week on the campaign trail for the Douglas County Commission. Sitting County Commissioner Patrick Kelly — who is seeking re-election in District No. 1 — sparked the issue after declining to answer a series of questions about why he voted the ...
While serving on the Lawrence-Douglas County Planning Commission, Chelsi Hayden raised concerns with a City Hall attorney that the commission was frequently violating the Kansas Open Meetings Act as it developed controversial wind farm regulations.
After raising those concerns, Hayden was denied reappointment to the Planning Commission despite having risen to the rank of the commission’s chair, and being ...
A massive annexation request touted as the first step to adding more than 1,000 single family homes west of the South Lawrence Trafficway has changed.
It is less massive and less about single family housing — at least temporarily.
We’ve been reporting for months that a group led by a Wichita businessman is pursuing the annexation of 650 acres west of the SLT in an area that generally is north and west of ...
