WRITER: Austin Hornbostel

Significance of MLK Day should still prompt dialogue, KU professor says: 'We have to always work'

Martin Luther King Jr. Day is just around the corner, and one message emerging locally and from an invited speaker is a call for sincere dialogue and doing the kind of work that the slain civil rights leader found essential to problem solving. At the University of Kansas, the Office of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging will welcome a national activist and scholar as part of its programming related to ...

Douglas County adds more than 800 new COVID-19 cases since Wednesday

Douglas County has seen 838 new cases of COVID-19 since Wednesday, according to an update from Lawrence-Douglas County Public Health. That comes just days after the county recorded 916 cases between Monday and Wednesday. The county currently has 4,867 active cases of COVID-19 and is averaging 276.86 new cases per day for the past 14 days — a new high. The average COVID-19 test positivity rate in the county ...

United Way in no hurry to conduct CEO search as organization continues to self-assess, explore opportunities

With an interim leader at the helm, the United Way of Douglas County has entered 2022 committed to assessing how it responds to community needs and prioritizing its standing relationship with its partner agencies. Interim CEO Peggy Johnson — who has served in that role since former president and CEO Jeffrey Cornish’s departure at the beginning of last October — said the organization’s goals now are much ...