After a nearly 20-year absence, there once again will be rocking and rolling on the Hill at the University of Kansas campus.
KU leaders on Friday announced they are restarting a once-popular annual concert event known as Day on the Hill, which in its inaugural year in 1992 featured a little band named Pearl Jam. This year, multiple Grammy-winning band Turnstile will be the headliner for an evening of music on ...
With about half the year in the books, a story about the Lawrence economy is beginning to emerge: Brick and mortar stores are slow, ‘buy now’ buttons are busy, and City Hall budget-makers are holding on.
Lawrence is performing worse than any other major retail market in the state when it comes to traditional sales tax collections, but is the growth leader when it comes to the special type of tax charged for ...
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Lawrence-based Laird Noller Auto Group landed on a relatively small list earlier this year, but not one any business seeks to make. Laird Noller was one of 97 auto dealer groups in the entire country that received a formal warning letter from the Federal Trade Commission regarding deceptive pricing issues.
In a move that flew under our radar screen, the FTC in March announced that ...
Everybody, it seems, has an idea for the former, and now long-vacant, Borders bookstore building at Seventh and New Hampshire streets in downtown Lawrence.
For years, it was considered the key to bringing a grocery store to downtown Lawrence. It wasn’t, and it didn’t.
Another time, it was going to be a great location for Lawrence’s next large-scale corporate office user that wanted to be in the heart of ...
Lawrence’s newest $1 billion-plus development proposal includes plans for a life-sized board game and a nature trail that encourages you to walk in your bare feet.
But, no, neither one of those elements is the most unique component of a recent development plan filed by a group led by Phil Bundy, a Wichita developer who now also operates in the Kansas City area.
Instead, the most unique element is that ...
You don’t need to be a math major to understand the appealing arithmetic of a new type of degree approved by the Kansas Board of Regents this week.
You soon may be able to get a bachelor’s degree by taking 90 credit hours of classes instead of the standard 120 hours that is now required at the University of Kansas and the state’s other public universities.
With tuition and required fees set to cost more ...
