William Dulin understood the importance of two simple words growing up a Black boy in 1950s Lawrence: “To go.” His grandmother had told him the rules many times. There are businesses you can go into, “but you get what you came to get and you go outside.” A drugstore on the southern stretch of Massachusetts Street — across from a popular youth baseball field in South Park — was such a "get it and ...
A Kansas newspaper that became a national rallying cry for journalism after its offices were raided by a small-town police force will receive one of the nation’s top journalism awards at KU this spring. The Marion County Record will receive the 2024 William Allen White Foundation National Citation at a ceremony on April 11 at the Kansas Memorial Union. The weekly newspaper will become the first ...
A bill that would create questions about how University of Kansas officials can address issues of diversity, equity and inclusion may get a second life in the Kansas Legislature this session. Lawmakers in both houses last year passed a provision, as part of the governor’s budget, that would place significant limits on how KU and other state universities can interact with individuals on the issues of ...
With the release of Gov. Laura Kelly’s recommended budget on Thursday, we are fully in political debate season. No doubt, taxes will be at the center of many debates that take place at the Statehouse between now and its spring adjournment. Politicians will produce a lot of words in those debates — imagine that — but whether there is a lot of actual data behind the arguments remains to be seen. In that ...
The University of Kansas’ top legislative priority received a boost on Thursday, as Gov. Laura Kelly has included $75 million of funding for a new cancer research center in her recommended budget. The new cancer building would be located on the KU Medical Center campus in Kansas City, Kan. KU leaders have said the funding is their top legislative priority of the session. The new research center is expected ...
Maybe award-winning barbecue has been the long-missing ingredient in an effort to convert the former Journal-World printing complex on the north end of downtown into a major new commercial area. We are about to find out. Kansas City’s popular Q39 barbecue restaurant has signed on to be an anchor tenant for a large redevelopment of the former Journal-World buildings that currently sit vacant at Sixth and ...