LMH Health is facing another budget deficit as 2023 draws to a close, but hospital President and CEO Russ Johnson is optimistic it won’t be as bad as the year-to-date numbers might indicate.
That was the message from Johnson at Wednesday morning’s LMH Health Board of Trustees meeting, during which he delivered some remarks about the hospital’s 2023 year-to-date financial performance. Much like last year, ...
A solar energy facility that’s proposed for 1,100 acres just north of Lawrence is officially the first large-scale project to have filed permit application materials with Douglas County planning staff.
As the Journal-World has reported, the Kansas Sky Energy Center project — a collaboration between Kansas City energy company Savion and Evergy — as of late October had filed paperwork with county ...
For years before Dyani White Hawk actually set foot in Lawrence, a picture of the Haskell Indian Nations University campus hung on her family’s fridge.
White Hawk would eventually live and work in Lawrence for five years, and she spent some of that time studying on that very campus. It's a time that she says shaped her life and career in many ways. White Hawk, a Sičáŋǧu Lakota artist now based in ...
It’s difficult to summarize a career spanning more than four decades in just a few words, but there’s a few that do the trick when it comes to Faith Friesen — 25,000 lives saved.
Friesen, the blood bank supervisor for LMH Health, is preparing to retire after 43 years of working with blood donations. In the nearly 20 years since Friesen began coordinating LMH Health’s blood drives, she’s overseen the ...
The Lawrence City Commission has been tasked with settling a dispute in contract negotiations between the city and a group of unionized employees, but it still wasn’t near a resolution by 10 p.m. Tuesday.
As the Journal-World has reported, the City Commission will have the final say in contract negotiations between the city and a group of unionized city employees, which have stalled as the parties have failed ...
After a denied Freedom of Information Act request, a lawsuit and, finally, the release of more than 500 pages of documents, one nonprofit is still hunting for an investigative report about alleged crimes on Haskell Indian Nations University’s campus — and multiple students are now encountering the same problem.
As the Journal-World reported, Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility sued the Bureau ...
