A former deputy district attorney in Douglas County facing a state ethics complaint told the Lawrence City Commission Tuesday that he believed he was the right person to get the Community Police Review Board "off the ground," despite his name having been recently removed from the board nomination list.
Joshua Seiden, who abruptly departed the Douglas County District Attorney's Office in June after he was caught ...
In a couple of years, a major street in Lawrence could have a major facelift.
The Multi-Modal Transportation Commission unanimously voted on Monday to recommend a plan to redesign Ninth Street from Illinois Street to Vermont Street. The plan would drop Ninth Street's traffic flow from four lanes of cars to three lanes and add bike lanes on each side until Kentucky Street.
The design would have one lane of ...
Picture a horror movie scene: it’s the cliche dark, stormy night, right around Halloween. The full moon is out as the protagonist inches towards the abandoned house with a flashlight when suddenly bats come flying out from the doorway.
In real life, it doesn't need to be Halloween time for bats to make their presence known. In northeast Kansas, the most active time for bats is actually going to be in the ...
As sidewalk improvements become a citywide emphasis with funding programs, the City Commission is set to decide on about a half-million dollars worth of specific sidewalk improvement work at its meeting on Tuesday.
City staff is recommending approval of a $562,265 bid to Sands Construction LLC as part of the 2023 Pedestrian Improvements Project that will reconstruct or newly construct sidewalks at eight ...
U-Hauls lining the streets. People lugging couches and lamps. Old furniture items lying in alleys or dumpsters right by the sidewalks. Move-in dates for housing around campus are not just stressful on parents and students preparing the new digs for the upcoming fall semester; they’re the busiest time of the year for the city’s waste department.
“We need all hands on deck,” Gabriel Chavez, a solid waste ...
As anyone knows while balancing a budget, there are tradeoffs with any decision made. If you go to see that new movie, will you have to miss out on dinner with friends? Can you splurge on those new shoes you’ve been eyeing if you lower costs by packing a lunch to work more often?
When it comes to balancing municipal budgets, those same tradeoffs come at a scale of millions of dollars, and with more ...
