For a few hours on Tuesday, it looked like a plan by Bert Nash Community Mental Health Center to build supportive housing for the homeless atop a downtown grocery store had reemerged.
And it looked like the idea was as controversial as ever among some downtown business owners and stakeholders.
The downtown project, though, has not reemerged. Rather, an editing error by the city gave the impression that it ...
Here’s the latest sign you are becoming old: You start telling young homeowners worried about rising interest rates how high your mortgage rate was on your first home. (Mine was 8.75%, and the home had a driveway that was uphill — both ways.)
Maybe some Lawrence homebuyers are getting the message, because the latest numbers show local home sales actually increased slightly in October despite rising interest ...
Plans have been filed at City Hall that would allow for more than 180,000 square feet of new retail space that could accommodate more than a dozen large and small retailers in far west Lawrence.
A Lawrence-based development company is seeking to rezone vacant property at the southwest corner of Sixth Street and George Williams Way — which also is along the South Lawrence Trafficway — to allow for ...
A physicist and interim dean at the University of New Mexico has been selected to become the leader of KU’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, the university’s biggest academic unit.
Arash Mafi was chosen from a field of four finalists to take over as executive dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. He’ll oversee a college that has 11,000 undergraduate students, 1,700 graduate students and ...
If you want to get an undergraduate degree in physics, there is no shortage of options in Kansas.
All six of the state’s public universities offer an undergraduate degree in physics, despite data showing that enrollment in the programs is below average at all six schools, and that few physics graduates end up being employed in Kansas or Missouri.
While every university is likely to keep offering some ...
It almost is a truism in a college town: When you get a place with more space, get more couches. (The two hardest parts about moving my college-age son were the number of couches, and getting people off of them.) The situation is not quite the same at Habitat for Humanity’s new ReStore, but couches and other furniture are playing a big role in the new space.
As we reported in July, Habitat for Humanity ...
