The City of Lawrence wants to know whether residents would like to see a long-term version of the patio and outdoor dining areas constructed in parking stalls downtown amid the coronavirus pandemic.
The city recently launched an online survey to collect feedback from downtown visitors and business owners about the idea and will be hosting three public meetings in the first week of October.
The program has ...
Issues such as affordable housing, economic development and city infrastructure were high on the list of priorities that City Commission candidates outlined in a community forum on Sunday.
The League of Women Voters, NAACP, Lawrence Public Library and other community partners hosted the virtual candidate forum on Sunday evening for City Commission and Lawrence school board candidates. The forum, which was ...
The City of Lawrence will soon be requiring its unvaccinated employees to be tested regularly for COVID-19, and Douglas County could soon adopt a similar policy for its employees.
Between the two local governments, such policies would cover more than 1,600 workers.
While these kinds of policies don’t go as far as the vaccine requirements that President Joe Biden recently announced for federal workers, ...
Close to 60% of Lawrence residents are renters, but an extremely small number of the city’s rental properties — under 1% in recent years — are inspected annually for code and safety violations. That could soon change.
As part of its meeting Tuesday, the Lawrence City Commission will consider the first draft of amendments to the city’s rental inspection ordinance, which includes provisions to increase ...
County leaders have approved $125,000 in rent and utility assistance that local social service agencies say is needed as they begin to see the effects of the end of the federal eviction moratorium.
As part of its meeting Wednesday, the Douglas County Commission approved a request from the Housing Stabilization Collaborative for $125,000 in assistance, comprising $100,000 for rent assistance and $25,000 for ...
Photographer Rich Frishman will host a series of art talks next week about his ongoing exhibit “Ghosts of Segregation.”
The free exhibit is currently open and will run through Dec. 12 at the Lawrence Arts Center, 940 New Hampshire St. “Ghosts of Segregation” includes 35 present-day photographs of “colored entrances,” segregation walls, locations of civil rights protests or the sites of racially ...
