Updated at 4:35 p.m. Thursday, May 9
The Douglas County Commission has committed to a scope of work for a project to renovate and add space at the Judicial and Law Enforcement Center and build a new public safety building near the Douglas County Jail, which comes with an estimated price tag of around $74 million and could begin construction in 2025.
At Wednesday’s County Commission meeting, commissioners ...
District Court Judge Mark Simpson has ruled against a group of landlords in their lawsuit against the City of Lawrence, which argued that the city’s housing nondiscrimination ordinance was “unconstitutionally vague.”
Simpson issued his judgment on Tuesday. Both parties had requested a resolution through summary judgment, a decision based on a matter of law without the need for a full trial.
The Landlords ...
Late Tuesday night, the Lawrence City Commission approved a number of changes to how the governing body receives general public comment, including one that moves the comment period toward the end of the weekly meeting agenda.
The changes were part of more than a dozen resolutions and ordinances that would codify new advisory board, ethics and meeting procedure policies, which were all grouped under a single ...
The details behind a remodel and addition project at the Judicial and Law Enforcement Center are narrowing, and Douglas County leaders could soon approve the project’s scope of work.
At Wednesday’s Douglas County Commission meeting, commissioners are set to hear more about the schematic design and overall anticipated scope of work for the project, and they’re also being asked to both approve the scope of ...
The Lawrence/Douglas County chapter of Women for Kansas is set to host a forum this weekend for primary candidates vying for election in the newly drawn Senate District 19.
At 10:30 a.m. Saturday, the local Women for Kansas chapter will host Democrats ShaMecha King Simms, Vic Miller and Patrick Schmidt, the current candidates for election in Senate District 19, via a Zoom webinar. People interested in learning ...
Karen Willey, the current chair of the Douglas County Commission, has filed for election to retain her seat on the commission.
Willey, a Democrat, announced that she planned to file for election in District 3 in a press release sent to the Journal-World Tuesday afternoon. As the Journal-World has reported, District 3 is the largest of five commission districts in terms of its geographic area and includes the ...
