There are a couple of ways to get a Nebraskan in Lawrence excited. One, tell them they are missing a row of kernels on their corn cob hat, or two, tell them that Lawrence has a Runza restaurant.
The fast-food chain that features a stuffed sandwich with a blend of meat, spices, cabbage and onions is a major deal in Nebraska. There are 13 Runza restaurants in Lincoln alone, according to the company’s website. ...
A Lawrence company that has been an international leader in the printing of scholarly and academic journals has been purchased by a larger, Minnesota-based publishing firm.
Brainerd, Minn.-based CJK Group Inc. has purchased Lawrence’s Allen Press, but the company said it plans to continue operating Allen’s East Lawrence printing plant, which is a significant employer and taxpayer in the community.
The ...
You can’t quite call it a record-breaking year, but you can certainly say that Lawrence shoppers broke out their wallets in a big way in 2022.
Now, the question is whether those shoppers are just plain broke heading into 2023.
The city’s retail sales tax collections in 2022 were up 8% compared with a year ago, which is the second-best growth rate in recent memory. It trailed only 2021, when the city ...
A group led by the dean of KU’s School of Education is seeking tens of millions of dollars in new funding to provide scholarships to Kansas high school students who want to enter the K-12 teaching profession.
Rick Ginsberg, dean of KU’s education school, recently told the Kansas Board of Regents that it should remove several restrictions from its Kansas Teacher Service Scholarship Program, and that the ...
A liberal Democrat may be the biggest winner with the new five-district Douglas County Commission map that was approved this week.
The biggest loser may be a group of rural residents who thought they were sending a message that they didn’t care for this current county commission and wanted to see change as quickly as possible.
Those are a couple of my takeaways after spending some time reviewing the map ...
The wheels are officially turning on a nearly $125 million City of Lawrence project. And, there really are a lot of wheels involved with this one.
City officials recently filed for a special use permit that will allow the city to build its new “field operations campus” — perhaps better thought of as a large public works complex — at VenturePark in eastern Lawrence. Eventually, the site will have ...
