City leaders will soon consider a sales tax break for a renovation and construction project for the headquarters of a locally based construction company.
As part of its meeting Tuesday, the Lawrence City Commission will consider a request from Banks Street LLC for an industrial revenue bond sales tax exemption for a two-phase renovation and construction project for buildings that will house the headquarters of ...
The racial inequities that many in the U.S. seek to remedy first confronted Farris Muhammad when he was a child growing up on the east side of Detroit.
Even though he lived in a Black neighborhood, Muhammad said that as early as 5 years old he started to notice that the people in charge in his community, be it a shop owner, police officer, judge or social worker, tended not to look like him. And from those ...
Lawrence Police Department representatives say they do not know what caused a dramatic drop in the number of traffic citations issued by officers over the past decade.
Though several significant developments in policing did occur around the same time as the initial decline in the number of traffic citations issued, the only factor that police department representatives identified were likely changes in how the ...
Since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, 25 city employees have tested positive for the coronavirus, with one of those cases currently active.
The city was formerly issuing news releases to announce each positive case, but city spokesman Porter Arneill said in an email to the Journal-World that the city is no longer announcing cases as they arise unless the local health department determines there is a ...
The heated tents are set up and a campsite in northern Lawrence is now ready to begin accepting some of the more than 100 homeless people currently living outside.
Many of the existing campsites where homeless people are currently living are located along the Kansas River and in wooded areas on city parkland, which have no access to toilets or running water and sometimes result in a buildup of trash. The new ...
City leaders have approved a code amendment that will allow schools, event centers and recreation centers to house temporary homeless shelters.
As part of its meeting Tuesday, the Lawrence City Commission voted unanimously to approve the amendment to expand the potential locations of temporary shelters, which are meant to give those sleeping outdoors day and/or overnight shelter during the winter months. Some ...
