OK, old-timer, maybe you did have a route to school that was uphill both ways. But I know there is one challenge you didn’t have: Today’s housing market.
Thank your lucky stars.
A new report shows that an average income-earning household in Lawrence that is looking to buy an average-priced home in Lawrence would need to make a 57% down payment on that house in order to be able to reasonably afford the ...
Let’s take a spin around town with some news and notes.
— If you spin enough, you are going to need some new tires (and they’re helpful in dodging Lawrence’s army of orange construction cones too.) Well, there’s news that a longtime tire dealer in town is expanding.
Plans have been filed at City Hall for K’s Tire Sales & Service to expand at its location at 930 E. 27th St. Plans call for a ...
There are dinosaurs in Derby. There is soccer in Kansas City. There is modern art in Manhattan.
All those entertainment and tourism projects, plus more than 20 others spread throughout Kansas, are receiving millions in state tax dollars via one of the most unique economic development programs in the country.
In fact, Douglas County is the largest county in Kansas that is not using the program to fund a major ...
UPDATED 2:15 P.M. MAY 2
An approximately $300 million redevelopment project at KU’s football stadium has won a key recommendation from Lawrence City Manager Craig Owens, as KU and its development partners are now offering to pay nearly $20 million for other city projects.
KU or the KU Endowment Association is offering to provide the city at least $4 million worth of land to be used for affordable housing ...
A retired general and a retired admiral told a Lawrence crowd Thursday that the U.S. military is superior to its counterpart in China. But, before you salute and wave the flag, also know this: They said it may not matter.
“A sergeant in the U.S. Army does what a colonel in the Chinese army does, and does it better,” said Robert Brown, a retired U.S. Army general who commanded 140,000 American troops as the ...
Story updated at 6:50 p.m. Wednesday, April 30:
The KU Endowment Association is restructuring potentially millions of dollars in scholarships to meet new Trump administration requirements related to diversity, equity and inclusion, the Journal-World has learned.
The restructuring — which the association has begun to communicate through letters to select donors — means, for example, that a scholarship fund ...
