In the Dole Institute of Politics’ collections are thousands of films and tapes from throughout Sen. Bob Dole’s career – records that, for all we know, might only have a couple of plays left in them.
They’re in all kinds of formats, said senior archivist Sarah Gard – from cassette tapes to 1-inch and 2-inch film, from VHS to professional standards like Betacam. And they’re from all throughout ...
There are successful parties at the Lawrence Public Library, like the one that raised more than $400,000 for an outdoor performance space and various other projects earlier this month.
And then there's "Deflategate."
That’s what Kathleen Morgan, director of the Lawrence Public Library's Friends & Foundation, calls one specific movie night gone wrong. It was an outdoor showing of "Jurassic Park" on a big ...
Two buildings in the Oread neighborhood that city staff says have historic value could be a problem for the first “very-high-density” housing project in Lawrence's history.
The project is Lawrence businessman Doug Compton's two-building, 300-bedroom apartment complex called The Place @ KU. It would be a first in Lawrence – the first super-dense project built under the city's new code, taking advantage of ...
City leaders are hoping Lawrence will be chosen for a pilot project that uses a little-utilized state law to acquire and rehabilitate abandoned homes for affordable housing.
The project is by the nonprofit organization Neighborhood Legal Support of Kansas City, which put out a request for proposals for cities that want to be part of it. On Tuesday, the Lawrence City Commission voted to let staff submit a ...
“It’s not good for printing,” this photo that Gary Mark Smith took of a few boys on the streets of Tangier, Morocco.
It’s not violent or dark or frightening, like so much of the stuff he’s seen in nearly half a century of photographing the most dangerous streets on Earth. But it’s not good for printing, because of what the boys are doing – they’re kicking around a bottle cap.
They’re playing ...
Electricity and gas companies have a special rule that governs when they can shut off services in the winter months, but you might not have known the City of Lawrence’s water service limits its cold-weather shutoffs, as well.
The city’s current practice is to not shut off customers’ water for nonpayment during weeks with especially cold temperatures, specifically weeks when the high is forecast to be ...
