An issue regarding gender-neutral bathrooms has University of Kansas students on edge that KU leaders are bowing to a Trump administration demand to pull back on diversity and equity efforts on campuses. It also has some KU students looking for a new place to live. Residents of the Grace Pearson Scholarship Hall were informed by KU Student Housing earlier this month that a program that allowed for “gender ...
I know some people who likely wouldn’t object to their final resting place being next door to a Hershey’s plant. Indeed, there is a cemetery just down the road from the Hershey’s manufacturing plant in Lawrence Venture Park on the east edge of the city. If you didn’t know of the cemetery, don’t feel bad. It likely hasn’t hosted a burial for more than 100 years. That soon may change. Plans have ...
If you are a federal employee, you have a lot on your mind currently — including, apparently, finding tips on how to write an email to America’s richest man. On the chance you haven’t been following along, federal employees were given a deadline of midnight tonight to send an email to a government personnel account describing five tasks they accomplished last week. While the email technically is from the ...
Douglas County commissioners at their meeting Wednesday approved year-end financial adjustments that include nearly $6 million in violations of a policy designed to control the size of the county’s emergency reserves. The violations of the county’s fund balance policy didn’t become clear until Tuesday, when County Administrator Sarah Plinsky added additional information to a staff memo to commissioners ...
News and notes from around town: ••• It has been clear for awhile now that it will take more than needle and thread to mend what’s broken with the craft and sewing retailer Joann Fabrics. Now, it also is clear that the Lawrence store won’t be around for the end of the project. Joann has announced it is closing more than 500 stores, and its lone Lawrence location at 27th and Iowa streets is on the ...
The University of Kansas is expecting enrollment on its Lawrence campus to grow again next year — but after that, community leaders likely shouldn’t expect much future growth in student numbers. That’s partially by design, members of the Kansas Board of Regents were told on Wednesday. Jeff DeWitt, KU’s chief financial officer, told a Regents committee that applications for the 2025-2026 school year ...