A former Haskell Indian Nations University president is calling for changes to how the university is operated, with hopes that more autonomy will mean greater opportunities for Haskell’s students. Venida Chenault, who served as Haskell’s president for five years, shared her thoughts on that idea with the Journal-World earlier this week. Haskell is operated by a federal agency — the Bureau of Indian ...
Heartland Community Health Center was selected this week as one of just three health centers in Kansas to receive an Early Childhood Development grant intended to improve developmental outcomes among children age 5 and younger. The U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration’s Bureau of Primary Health Care awarded $30 million to 151 HRSA-funded health centers across the country as part of National ...
An analysis of data from Douglas County law enforcement agencies’ traffic stops in 2022 found that Black drivers were more likely than white drivers to be pulled over — a continuing trend from the same type of data collected for a study during 2020 and 2021. Matt Cravens, a senior data analyst with the county, presented an update on that law enforcement contact data to the county’s Criminal Justice ...
Visits to a pair of Kansas wind farms, meetings with multiple industry experts and a line-by-line review of the revised regulations for wind energy projects in Douglas County have all been part of the work to produce a second draft of those rules for further public input. The Lawrence-Douglas County Planning Commission met for a study session Wednesday morning, during which planning commissioners heard from the ...
Lawrence city leaders on Tuesday approved a long-discussed ordinance that imposes a ban on single-use disposable plastic bags. After years of public debate, Ordinance No. 9996 was passed by a 3-2 vote at Tuesday’s Lawrence City Commission meeting, with commissioners Brad Finkeldei and Amber Sellers opposed. Besides broadly banning the kinds of plastic bags people in Lawrence might currently use to transport ...
Lawrence city commissioners took no action Tuesday on a set of proposed changes to how they handle general public comments during their weekly meetings — after hearing ample pushback from members of the public about even considering such changes in the first place. More than 20 members of the public spoke at the meeting against the proposed changes, which included moving the public comment period to the end ...