We are about to find out whether World Cup visitors are going to produce a surge in business for Lawrence establishments. As we’ve reported, the Algerian team arrived at its Lawrence base camp earlier this week, and Kansas City will start hosting World Cup matches next week. Expectations for what type of boost the World Cup will provide to the Lawrence economy have been all over the map, as they started high ...
A trial for a Lawrence activist accused of interfering with law enforcement in 2023 now has the narrowest of windows to proceed, or else it could be dismissed due to the state’s speedy trial guarantees. A Douglas County District Court judge on Tuesday refused to dismiss the case against Phillip Michael Eravi, who faces one count of interference with law enforcement in connection with an armed standoff May ...
Lawrence is officially a World Cup city. For the moment, though, it is a relatively quiet one. The Algerian national team arrived in Lawrence shortly after midnight on Monday morning, greeted by thunderstorms and law enforcement personnel both from Lawrence and Topeka to escort the team to its Lawrence hotel, according to information from the Lawrence Police Department. The Associated Press reported that the ...
In what has become an annual exercise to keep $2 million of state funding, the University of Kansas and the state’s other public universities are being ordered to address diversity, equity and inclusion topics. This year, the Kansas Legislature’s orders are limited: Create some definitions related to diversity, equity and inclusion, and its philosophical cousin known as critical race theory. While ...
UPDATED 4 P.M. May 22 The trails at Lawrence’s Rock Chalk Park are creating a question, and this one doesn’t fit into the typical hiking categories of “what’s that bird?” or “was that poison ivy?” Instead, the question at the more than 10-year-old facility in northwest Lawrence is: What happened to nearly 2 miles of trails? An investigation by the Journal-World has found that the number of ...
Plans for a hotel that will connect to KU’s football stadium and the 1,000-seat conference center inside the stadium have taken an important step forward. KU leaders are now publicly saying who the operator of the hotel will be. Jeff DeWitt, KU’s chief financial officer, told me in a brief interview that Kansas City hotel developer and operator Chuck Mackey has been chosen to bring the approximately ...