Retail sales during the back-to-school period surged more in Lawrence than in any other major retail community in the state, according to the latest figures from the Kansas Department of Revenue.
It kind of makes you wonder what KU students filled their dorm rooms with this year that they didn’t last year. (I’m not volunteering to look.)
From mid-July to mid-August, retail sales in Lawrence rose by 8.7% ...
Before a crowd of homebuilders and real estate agents, a majority of the candidates for the Lawrence City Commission said local government operations are in bad need of repair.
“The first thing we have to do is we’ve got to fix planning and development in the city,” candidate Kristine Polian said at a candidate forum hosted Wednesday morning by the Lawrence Home Builders Association and the Lawrence ...
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Enrollments at the University of Kansas have been rising for the last several years, but the university’s standing in a key national ranking hasn’t. That changed on Tuesday.
KU gained seven spots in the closely watched U.S. News & World Report “Best Colleges” ranking, released on Tuesday. KU is now ranked No. 74 among public universities in the country. It is ...
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Back in the day, the tacos were hot at Torchy’s Tacos on south Iowa Street. But ever since the restaurant near 31st and Iowa streets closed in 2022, the location has been cold. Despite being along a heavily traveled street and near the southern gateway of town, the building has sat empty for more than three years.
Now, maybe the general is coming to the rescue — as in ...
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Maybe there is something about the southwest corner of Sixth Street and Wakarusa Drive that makes it simpatico with the desert.
For years it was home to the Salty Iguana Mexican restaurant and now Cactus Grill, a Kansas City-based Tex-Mex restaurant, is set to move into the center.
(Yes, I confirmed iguanas live in the desert. I thought they lived in insurance offices, but ...
Getting tenure and its job protections as a university faculty member — and how much work must be done to keep that status — are now officially topics to be studied by the Kansas Board of Regents this fall.
At their meeting on Thursday, the Regents approved a board goal of conducting a “comprehensive review” of the tenure system and related workload polices that are in place at the University of Kansas ...
