Republican U.S. Sen. Jerry Moran wants to leave the decision of Medicaid expansion in Kansas to the Legislature, but health care professionals have suggested to him that it could be the best way to help hospitals and address mental health issues, he said during a visit to Lawrence on Wednesday.
After meeting with LMH Health president and CEO Russ Johnson, Moran told the Journal-World he was happy to learn about ...
Poetry is an art that is meant to be heard, says Lawrence poet Eric McHenry. And now that audible art form will be recognized with a special local award.
As part of the annual Langston Hughes Creative Writing Awards, Lawrence Magazine is funding a new prize to celebrate the performance side of poetry. The Langston Hughes Spoken Word Poetry Prize contest will judge the best spoken-word poetry performance of high ...
Story updated 3:37 p.m. Monday
Lawrence residents will need to bundle up to start the new year on Tuesday, said Audra Hennecke, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Topeka.
The temperature in the Lawrence area was expected to drop into the teens early Tuesday morning, with a wind chill in the low single digits, when many people were celebrating, she said. The rest of New Year’s Day is ...
Nationwide holiday spending saw its largest bump in six years in 2018, according to a report from financial services company Mastercard, and local businesses say they're also feeling that trend.
Specifically, the Mastercard report said that in November and December of this year, U.S. consumers spent a total of $850 billion — an increase of 5.1 percent from the same period last year.
Joe Flannery, president ...
The year is coming to an end, and it is time to party once again.
If you’re looking to celebrate New Year’s Eve in Lawrence, there are plenty of places to go. Here are a few events that caught my eye:
• It may soon be 2019, but the Granada is letting people celebrate by taking it back to the 1990s and early 2000s with Los Angeles-based group Emo Nite.
The three-person group doesn't describe itself as ...
About three decades ago, a remarkable ecological comeback started in Lawrence, local eagle biologist Mike Watkins said.
For decades, Kansas had not documented a nesting location for bald eagles within its borders. But in 1989, a fisherman reported seeing America's national bird in the Lawrence area at Clinton Lake.
“I was skeptical,” said Watkins, who served as a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers wildlife ...
