Lawrence Whataburger fans can now circle a date on their calendars — Oct. 28. An official with the Kansas City-based franchise that owns the Lawrence Whataburger location told me the company is pushing really hard to have the restaurant — which would be Lawrence’s first Whataburger — open by Oct. 28. But, he also wasn’t guaranteeing it. “We hope to be able, at the earliest, to be open Oct. ...
It was an opportunity of a lifetime. Granted, it had been a short lifetime, but still, this was a wonderful opportunity. Well, yes, it did involve a defaulted loan, but defaulted loans often are wonderful opportunities simply disguised as cold sweats and severe chest pains. No, this automotive service station in the tiny Iowa town of Arlington was a real opportunity for Dave McFarlane in 1965. Really. You ...
The dean of the University of Kansas’ journalism school has been named the nation’s top journalism education administrator. Ann Brill, dean of the William Allen White School of Journalism, recently received the administrator of the year award from the Scripps Howard Fund and the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communications. Brill is in her 20th year as dean of the KU school and told ...
A KU program to train future professionals in the field of national security is growing, and particularly will increase its focus on China. The University of Kansas’ Intelligence Community Center for Academic Excellence has received $300,000 in new federal funding for the upcoming school year, the university announced Thursday. KU said the new funding will expand the program’s study of China and the ...
On that December night when flames shot through the roof of her downtown Mexican restaurant, Cielito Lindo, owner Lourdes Esmeralda Perez Rojo had many thoughts going through her mind. Most were about tomorrow, as thousands and thousands of gallons of water from Lawrence firefighters were not making a dent in the destruction of today. “It was really hard, indeed, because it wasn’t just a sudden loss of ...
It is the final chapter for a downtown Lawrence building that used to produce many a chapter in academic journals around the world. A large track hoe excavator began punching holes in the cinderblock walls of the former Allen Press building at 11th and New Hampshire streets at about 9:45 a.m. on Wednesday. Within a few weeks, the site at the southern entrance to downtown will be a straw-covered lot waiting for ...