Jill Stein, the Green Party’s presidential candidate, features prominently in some Democratic nightmare scenarios.
A close race develops between former President Donald Trump and President Joe Biden. Trump wins the election with Stein pulling in a small but significant number of votes in a key swing state.
That’s the nightmare scenario for Democrats, but it is not causing Stein to lose any sleep, she ...
From roast beef to roasted beans: That’s the planned journey for one fast-food location on 23rd Street.
Plans have been filed at City Hall to convert the former Arby’s fast food restaurant at 1533 W. 23rd St. into a drive-thru coffee shop to be operated by a regional chain called 151 Coffee.
That journey is a mild one for 151 Coffee. Take a quick look at its history, and you’ll see a winding path. The ...
Award-winning author Sam Quinones might be an expert — although, perhaps, a controversial one — on tent cities across America.
After all, his latest book, “The Least of Us: True Tales of America and Hope in the Time of Fentanyl and Meth” has an entire chapter titled “Pimps & Tents.”
“Tents. They protect many homeless people from the elements,” Quinones writes in the book. “But they have ...
A new $20 million project has opened in northwest Lawrence — and it features all-day dining. Now, that’s a buffet I would like to see.
Actually, the project is not some mega-eatery, but rather is a new 76-room assisted living and memory care facility just northwest of Sixth and Folks Road.
Cedarhurst of Lawrence opened earlier this week at 4550 Bauer Farm Drive. If you are having a hard time picturing ...
Story updated at 5:19 p.m. Thursday, April 25:
Faculty members at the University of Kansas have voted by a large margin to form a union to negotiate with administrators for better pay, benefits and working conditions.
The faculty members — including a broad host of professors, instructors, librarians and others — agreed by a vote of 850 to 132 to be represented by the United Academics of the University of ...
Wheeler Parker Jr. was worried about the words that might come out of his cousin’s mouth.
His cousin, Emmett Till, you see, had not been to the South. He was a Black teenager from Chicago, and there had been much discussion in August 1955 among the Till and Wheeler families of whether cousin Emmett should even travel to Mississippi to see his family there.
“The question became should we let Emmett go ...