There was a time that Lawrence Memorial Hospital was among the most financially successful businesses in the city. The nonprofit hospital would frequently produce revenues over expenses — what we would call profit if the hospital were a traditional private company — of $10 million or more per year.
But that time has not been the last five years.
LMH Health — the parent company that owns the hospital ...
The good news is that a lack of home football games for the University of Kansas hasn’t yet produced a major dent in Lawrence sales tax collections this year. The bad news (well, at least part of it) is that the City of Lawrence is still an underdog to meet its budget projections for sales taxes, which is the city’s largest source of revenue.
Kansas revenue officials recently released the state’s October ...
A lawsuit regarding a large solar project is heading back to Douglas County District Court, but now there are questions about whether the county may act on the controversial development before new county commissioners are seated in January.
A federal judge on Monday ruled that a lawsuit filed by area businesses and neighbors protesting the Kansas Sky Energy Center should be heard in Douglas County District ...
Get ready for the Whataburger line.
The fast food chain has confirmed via press release that it will open its first Lawrence location at 11 a.m. on Monday, at 707 W. 23rd St.
The Journal-World reported earlier this month that Monday was when the company hoped to open the restaurant, but that it may also have to delay the opening for a week while it was completing training.
That training has progressed and ...
Sometimes a big bet involves pushing all your cash into the middle of the table. But here’s a twist: Sometimes it involves forsaking all cash.
The Kansas Turnpike Authority has indeed done the latter. KTA has invested about $100 million in converting the state’s turnpike system into one that no longer accepts cash tolls.
And the authority is now betting big on Lawrence to make that cashless system work. ...
Jack Thimesch, county commissioner in Kingman County, will tell you what the biggest threat is to the future of wind energy. It is not the Audubon Society, it is not the Farm Bureau, it is not even Big Oil.
Rather, the county commissioner who has three wind farms in his county and one more under construction, said the biggest threat is Facebook, and the ease with which it spreads misinformation. Such ...
