Editor's Note: The Journal-World asked each City Commission candidate in this year's primary election to provide written responses to three questions regarding current issues facing the City of Lawrence. Each candidate was given 600 words in total to respond to the three questions. The Journal-World staff compiled a brief biography of each candidate using information from past interviews and their candidate ...
As part of a forum Saturday, Lawrence City Commission candidates answered questions about police reform, addressing homelessness and the city’s shortage of affordable housing, and increasing opportunities for minority-owned businesses. In the virtual forum hosted by the Lawrence branch of the NAACP, the eight candidates who are actively running for a seat on the commission were told to provide timed ...
Updated at 5:38 p.m. Friday After concerns voiced by Lawrence Community Shelter staffers prompted an investigation into the executive director, Renee Kuhl, the shelter’s board has announced that Kuhl is no longer employed there. In a response to questions from the Journal-World this week, the president of the shelter’s governing board, Thea Perry, said that Kuhl “is no longer with” the shelter, but ...
Now that plans for the city's new bus station are moving forward, the City of Lawrence has begun a project to add shelters, benches, bicycle racks and other features close to various bus stops. Eighteen bus stops will receive additions in four phases, with the first phase of the project concluding this week and the remaining phases continuing for the rest of the month. The bus stop improvements vary by stop, ...
Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly has announced funding for eight highway projects in eastern Kansas totaling more than $297 million, including a $12 million project that will reconstruct an interchange of Kansas Highway 10 in Lawrence. The projects are the first highway expansion and modernization projects as part of the Eisenhower Legacy Transportation Program, known as IKE, and have been committed to construction as ...
A steering committee tasked with providing input on the draft downtown Lawrence master plan has called for changes related to historic preservation, equity and inclusion and some of the plan’s redevelopment recommendations. As part of its meeting Thursday, the Downtown Master Plan Steering Committee voted 10-0, with several members absent, to recommend that the City Commission approve the draft plan once the ...