WRITER: Chad Lawhorn

Governor signs bill to cut affordable housing tax credit; developer predicts 80% reduction in future projects

Kansas will see about 80% fewer affordable housing projects in the coming year, a top Lawrence builder predicted after Gov. Laura Kelly signed a bill that limits tax credits for the developments. “What I can tell you is we are (expletive,)" Tony Krsnich, developer of multiple affordable housing projects in East Lawrence and downtown, told the Journal-World shortly after Kelly announced on Friday that she had ...

Lawrence City Commission candidate Gary Rexroad drops out of race due to health issue

A Lawrence-Douglas County planning commissioner who announced last month that he was running for the Lawrence City Commission is withdrawing from the race due to a health issue. Gary Rexroad told the Journal-World on Thursday that he is withdrawing from the race to win one of two seats up for election on the Lawrence City Commission. “Due to a recently developed health issue, I am withdrawing as a ...

Lawrence Parade of Homes set for next two weekends; due to shortage of lots, half of entries are outside the city

The Lawrence Home Builders Association’s Spring Parade of Homes is set to begin its first of two weekends. If you aren’t in the market to buy a home but want to go anyway, feel free to think of it as a live performance of HGTV. Turn off the TV and take in the Broadway version, so to speak. (I’ve long argued the whirr of a Skill saw would improve almost any musical.) “It is fun to go out and look at ...

'Driving everybody crazy': Girod speaks on status of college sports, worries over how to pay athletes

All the preparations are being made for universities to begin directly paying their student-athletes next school year. The federal judge overseeing the key lawsuit in the matter hasn’t yet approved the settlement agreement between the NCAA, universities and aggrieved student-athletes, but earlier this month she did provide indications that she intends to do so. The NCAA on Monday, took a step in that ...

LMH says hospital notified patients of privacy breach that is subject of legal complaint, also alerted state authorities

A new message from the leader of LMH Health said the hospital properly notified all patients impacted by a breach of health records that now is the subject of a pending class-action lawsuit. In an email message to various members of the community, LMH President and CEO Russ Johnson said there was a “breach of protected health information” in 2023 that “affected a very small number of our patients.” ...

KU ranked among the top U.S. universities for inventions, patents in 2024

The University of Kansas was one of the top 60 universities in the country in terms of creating new inventions in 2024, reaching a new high in the brief history of the National Academy of Inventors report. KU was 59th in the country in the recent NAI report that measures the number of utility patents that universities receive for work conducted by researchers and faculty members. KU was 94th in 2023 and 65th ...