News and notes from around town:
— Usually RVs and dump trucks don’t mingle, but they might for the next few years in far west Lawrence.
Plans have been filed with the Lawrence-Douglas County planning office for a major construction landfill and borrow site for the South Lawrence Trafficway expansion. The facility is proposed to be near the entrance of Clinton State Park, where the bulk of the lake’s ...
When it comes to maps and elections, I suspect most of you are just looking for one that shows the quickest path to the finish line.
That’s not what I have today, but I do have another interesting map and numbers about whether Lawrence should change its form of city government to one that creates four new Lawrence City Commission districts.
As a reminder, voters are deciding that question — which also ...
Here’s a fun Lawrence fact for you: Ninth Street doesn’t exist west of Kasold Drive.
Granted, it is not an overly fun fact, and if you miss a curve on the western portions of Ninth Street and you and your vehicle end up in someone’s front yard — where Ninth Street should be — it is even less fun.
But, it is an instructive fact about Lawrence city government.
Years ago, I was interviewing a ...
News and notes from around town:
It is not quite yet Whataburger, but it is Whatasmell.
Residents who have been going to the Douglas County Elections Office near 23rd and Louisiana streets for advance voting have been picking up an unmistakable scent from the office’s neighbor — the smell of frying hamburgers.
It indeed is coming from the not-yet-opened Whataburger restaurant at 707 W. 23rd St. ...
In the 1992 presidential campaign, Bill Clinton’s chief strategist coined a phrase that’s been used to describe the driving issue of American politics for years since: “It’s the economy, stupid.”
While the economy is still a top-of-mind issue, it might be time to change the phrase. Now, it’s the anger, and if “stupid” is the meanest thing you’ve been called, it’s been a pretty tame day.
A ...
Popular Kansas City barbecue restaurant Q39 is still on track to open in downtown Lawrence, a representative of the project has told me.
A bigger project that would develop next door in the former printing plant of the Journal-World, however, is now less certain to happen.
First, let’s deal with Q39 because people have been more nervous than the last guy in line at an all-you-can-eat buffet about whether ...
