It was a brief journalism lesson Tuesday evening from Bill Kurtis, a Kansan who has had anything but a brief journalism career.
Kurtis — who delivered the 2024 Dole Lecture to a capacity crowd of more than 200 people at the Dole Institute of Politics on the KU campus — has covered the Charles Manson murder trial, the riot at the 1968 Democratic convention, and the 1966 Topeka tornado that led to him ...
Area veterans soon may have two new places to find help: the University of Kansas law school and a Douglas County courtroom.
The KU law school is set to receive $1.6 million in federal funding to create a new law clinic specifically for veterans. U.S. Sen. Jerry Moran, R-Kansas, was in Lawrence Friday to announce the funding that he helped secure.
Additionally, Moran and other leaders at a KU law school ...
U.S. Sen. Jerry Moran is lobbying to declassify pieces of intelligence briefings that would show national security threats posed by the popular social media platform TikTok, whose parent company is based in China.
Moran, R-Kansas, said making such information publicly available likely would convince more Americans that a discussed ban of TikTok in the U.S. was justified.
“I have requested to the ...
The editor of a small-town Kansas newspaper that had its newsroom raided by law enforcement urged journalists and the public on Thursday to become even more aggressive in standing up to government.
“What happened to us was that somebody, politically, weaponized the police force, “ Eric Meyer, editor of the Marion County Record, told a KU crowd as part of the university’s annual William Allen White Day ...
Americans should become less worried about a nuclear war and more concerned about an unrestrained Vladimir Putin, the retired general who once oversaw the defense of Europe told a KU crowd on Wednesday.
Retired U.S. Air Force Gen. Philip Breedlove, who served as the Supreme Allied Commander of NATO, said America must soon decide whether it is willing to take new risks in the Ukrainian war or whether it is ...
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When it comes to ensuring that a proposed 1,100-acre solar farm in Grant Township doesn’t produce stormwater flooding for neighboring North Lawrence, a key regulator of the project said some work has been left undone.
Gary Rexroad, chair of the Lawrence-Douglas County Planning Commission, was one of four planning commissioners in December who voted to recommend the project ...
