Mark Weinberg, a longtime White House assistant to Ronald Reagan, spent weekends at Camp David in the 1980s watching movies with the first couple. While Ronald and Nancy Reagan lost themselves in popular box-office hits of the time, from “Chariots of Fire ” to “Back to the Future,” Weinberg was observing them. He has turned that experience into a memoir, “Movie Nights with the Reagans.” He'll be ...
Updated at 12:20 p.m. Wednesday Venida Chenault won’t be returning to her position as president of Haskell Indian Nations University, a spokeswoman for the Bureau of Indian Affairs announced this week. Chenault, who has been on a special assignment for the past four months, served for five years as the leader of Haskell, the federally operated tribal university in Lawrence. She will be working in the Office ...
Updated 12:45 p.m. Tuesday Friends and family are mourning well-known transgender activist Stephanie Mott, 61, who died suddenly of a heart attack Monday in Topeka. “No one will ever replace Stephanie Mott,” said Tom Witt, executive director of Equality Kansas. Mott had served as the board chair for two years and was currently still active as the vice chair of the organization. Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly ...
A recent trip to Portugal as a member of the U.S. Youth Futsal national team has given a Lawrence seventh-grader a glimpse into the world of international sports. Drew Rosenthal, a student at Southwest Middle School, was just 12 at the time of the trip in late December. The team he was on was made up of kids from around the U.S. They played four games and won three against teams from Portugal. His parents, ...
Michael Almon doesn’t worry about running out of electricity to run his car as he drives the 2012 Nissan Leaf around Lawrence. But if he goes to Topeka, he might need to find a charging station before heading home. "Range anxiety" and issues with locating the nearest charging station may have caused many consumers to think twice about buying an electric vehicle. When Almon drives away from his house in the ...
The stage at Theatre Lawrence was empty except for an old steamer trunk as a dress rehearsal for the musical “Quilters” began on Tuesday. Then the cast of seven women slowly moved onto the stage and remained there through the entire production, playing numerous parts — both male and female — in a series of vignettes that retell a family's history. “It’s very minimalist,” said Widge Yager, ...