By one measure, Lawrence’s economy is off to a strong start in 2025. Sales tax collections are growing at a rate well above the statewide average, and the city is posting some of the largest increases of any major retail market in the state.
Why? Cupid’s arrow, perhaps. That’s as good as any other explanation I could give you. Lawrence has received its sales tax checks from the state for January, ...
An old trend is hanging around again in Lawrence homes — wallpaper.
Bailey Stuart, president of the Lawrence Board of Realtors, sat down with the Journal-World to discuss trends that she’s seeing in Lawrence homes as she goes about her business of helping people buy and sell new properties.
Wallpaper — arguably its peak of popularity was the early 1900s, but it also made appearances in many a 1980s ...
The numbers of the moment have not been kind to universities across the state.
At the University of Kansas, $40 million is the amount of budget pain leaders here worry about if new regulations are placed on how universities can spend federal grants from the National Institutes of Health. At Kansas State, it already has lost federal grants that reportedly were worth at least $35 million, and layoffs of about 10 ...
LMH Health President and CEO Russ Johnson has made a career of watching the money in health care. As he gets set to retire this summer, he made an observation about money and medicine.
There’s probably too much money in the industry for it ever to change on its own.
Johnson, when chatting with me for an article earlier this week about his pending retirement, didn’t rule out playing a role of advocate for ...
Reported crime on the University of Kansas’ Lawrence campus hit another low in 2024 — fueled, in part, by a dramatic multiyear drop in drug offenses — university leaders announced Wednesday.
The KU Police Department took 481 criminal offense reports in 2024, according to the latest statistics. That’s down about 6% from a year ago. The 2024 mark is lower than any year in the last decade, other than the ...
Updated at 1:50 p.m. Tuesday, March 25
The University of Kansas is clamping down on its hiring process as it faces possible reductions in federal funding, Chancellor Douglas Girod said Tuesday.
KU will require all new hiring decisions to go through an additional review process by KU’s “University Cabinet,” which includes the chancellor, the provost, the chief financial officer and other top executives ...
