Updated at 5 p.m. Monday, May 6
On Tuesday, the Lawrence City Commission will consider adopting more than a dozen resolutions and ordinances establishing new advisory board, ethics and meeting procedure policies, with some proposed changes related to when and how general public comment might be received.
The many ordinances and resolutions are grouped together as a single agenda item for this week’s City ...
Lawrence City Commissioner Lisa Larsen has filed for election to a seat on the Douglas County Commission.
On Monday, Larsen filed for election in District 2, where County Commissioner Shannon Reid is currently the incumbent. Larsen and Reid, both Democrats, are currently the only candidates to have filed for election in District 2, which includes North Lawrence, the eastern Lawrence area around downtown, Grant ...
After the upcoming Douglas County Commission meeting on Wednesday, City of Lawrence and county leaders might have signed off on a joint resolution to adopt “A Place for Everyone” as the community’s strategic plan to end chronic homelessness.
As the Journal-World has reported, the joint resolution appears on both governing bodies’ meeting agendas this week.
But at the Lawrence City Commission, it’s ...
By this time next week, both the Lawrence City Commission and Douglas County Commission may have officially adopted the city and county’s joint plan to eliminate chronic homelessness, “A Place for Everyone.”
A joint resolution to adopt the plan appears on the consent agenda for Tuesday’s City Commission meeting and as a regular agenda item for the County Commission meeting the following day. If city and ...
On Friday, 129 students were recognized as they graduated from Haskell Indian Nations University.
The university hosted its 2024 commencement ceremony for spring and summer graduates on Friday, May 3, 2024.
At the ceremony, graduates heard a commencement address from Billy Mills, a former student at Haskell and the University of Kansas and a famed long-distance runner who remains the only American man to have ...
After a few months of searching, Family Promise of Lawrence has selected a new leader.
On Thursday, the organization announced in a press release that Monique Wahba will begin her role as executive director on Monday, May 20. Wahba will replace longtime director Dana Ortiz, who announced in February she’d be retiring this August after more than a decade leading the nonprofit. The release notes that Ortiz ...
