Voters won't be choosing Lawrence's city leaders in this November's elections, but they will be weighing in on how they should be chosen — including whether voters should decide on the mayor themselves.
Back in February 2023, the Lawrence City Commission approved a resolution to put a question on the November 2024 ballot about whether Lawrence should change its form of government to one with a directly ...
Several weeks after the city announced it would be closing a homeless camp behind the Amtrak train station in East Lawrence, more than 200 people have signed onto a petition against closing the camp, and a group of protesters showed up to Lawrence City Hall on Tuesday to urge leaders to reconsider.
Ahead of the Lawrence City Commission's meeting on Tuesday, the group of about a dozen protesters held signs ...
The Lawrence City Commission approved the 2025 budget for the city on Tuesday night, keeping a neutral mill rate by dipping into the general fund balance to cover additional expenses.
The commission voted 3-2 to pass the $518.7 million budget for next year. Mayor Bart Littlejohn, Vice Mayor Mike Dever and Commissioner Brad Finkeldei voted yes, while commissioners Lisa Larsen and Amber Sellers voted no.
This ...
Despite being intrigued by a new possibility in Lawrence, Luis Ruiz was not expecting to seriously consider making a jump to the Sunflower State.
Ruiz, who was born and raised in Miami and is a first generation Cuban-American, went to school at the University of Miami and spent at least a decade working in the Sunshine State, with stops in local government like Miami-Dade County and at the music school for his ...
As the city gets set to finalize its budget for 2025, one long-term project that advocates hope can stay in the plans for the city is the completion of the Lawrence Loop trail network, a vision and process at least 10 years in the making.
The Loop will be a network of 22 miles of continuous, paved walking and biking paths around the city. At the moment, 18 miles of the trail are finished, but the three missing ...
The revised version of the 2025 budget that Lawrence city commissioners will vote on Tuesday night will now feature a mill rate of 33.197 — about the same as last year’s rate of 33.207 — and will cover the additional expenditures by dipping into the general fund balance.
This proposed budget features marked changes from the initial budget proposal in July that would have raised the mill levy from the 2024 ...
