Douglas County still has a poverty rate above national and state averages, but over the last five years, its poverty number has posted the second largest decline of any county in Kansas, new data from the Census shows.
Douglas County finished 2023 with an overall poverty rate of 13.3%, meaning that about 14,920 residents were making less than what the federal government says individuals and families need to ...
At a time when American universities are struggling to find a message that resonates with the public, along comes a U.S. leader who is having no such problem with a message: Universities are the enemy.
That actually was the title of a 2021 speech by U.S. Sen. J.D. Vance, who, of course, is now set to become vice president of the United States next month.
It is a message that has caught the attention of ...
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There soon will be a new housing development in northwest Lawrence called Beth’s Ranch. It’s named as such because the site at the southeast corner of Sixth Street and George Williams Way for decades was home to a horse ranch.
I can’t say for certain what type of horses roamed the pastures there, but I’m guessing they weren’t race horses. It seems nothing ...
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There’s much to count during the holiday season. Blessings, of course, but also pennies — as in how many of them I can save when filling up my gas tank after all this Christmas traveling. If you are that same type of counter, here are a few facts and figures to know on Kansas gas prices before you fire up the Christmas cruiser. All are from AAA Kansas, which ...
Updated at 3:25 p.m. Monday, Dec. 23
A pair of Kansas lawmakers intends to introduce federal legislation that would strip control of Haskell Indian Nations University from the Bureau of Indian Education and let the university govern itself while still receiving federal funding.
U.S. Sen. Jerry Moran, R-Kan., and U.S. Rep. Tracey Mann, R-Kan., on Monday released a draft piece of legislation that would allow ...
Plans for a Braum’s restaurant in Lawrence may be delayed, but that doesn’t mean we have to pause the expansion of our waistbands. While I reported earlier this week that the hamburger and ice cream chain said it doesn’t have plans in either 2025 or 2026 to develop the northwest Lawrence site it owns, that is not a sign that other fast food restaurants aren’t looking at Lawrence.
In fact, interest is ...
