A women’s march in Lawrence is scheduled for the beginning of June, as fears about the fate of reproductive rights have intensified across the nation in recent weeks. With the recently leaked draft of a U.S. Supreme Court opinion showing justices are likely to overturn Roe v. Wade, rights to reproductive choice in Kansas will hinge on a state vote this August. The march in Lawrence is set for 11 a.m. June 4 ...
Haskell Indian Nations University — and a U.S. Cabinet member — recognized nearly 150 graduating students Friday morning at the university’s first official in-person commencement ceremony in two years. Haskell’s graduates were joined by a who’s who of influential Native American leaders at the federal level — Secretary Deb Haaland, the leader of the U.S. Department of the Interior; Tony Dearman, ...
A recent flood of letters to the Journal-World and Lawrence school board members, along with about a dozen public commenters at the school board’s Monday meeting, have all voiced a particular goal: Save the Lawrence school district’s Latin program. The program’s sole teacher, Zachary Puckett, could see his position eliminated as the district begins to implement more than $6 million in budget cuts. ...
The Douglas County Commission approved a pair of conditional use permits at its meeting Wednesday, both of which might lead to more work from county staff in the future to iron out standards. One of them — a vacation rental permit — comes with a number of conditions, from how the property owners are to deal with noise disturbances to mandating a building safety inspection on the property. The permit will be ...
Hamilton Lewis, a 2005 Free State graduate, is no stranger to helping bring films from concept to life. Lewis, now a visualization supervisor with The Third Floor in Los Angeles, has been working in Hollywood since he was 22. His first stop after graduating from Ringling College of Art and Design in Florida was a seven-year stint with DreamWorks Animation, but in more recent years the bigger projects he has ...
Douglas County has added another coronavirus death to its overall toll, according to Lawrence-Douglas County Public Health’s latest data. The health department announced Tuesday that a man between 35 and 44 years old was the 139th COVID death in the county since the start of the pandemic. Otherwise, the county’s COVID numbers have remained relatively the same since entering the most severe level of ...