“City Hall is on fire,” Amber Sellers told her fellow city commissioners on Tuesday night. There are three options for the 2027 budget, and you can only grab one.
One of them has a roughly 2-mill property tax rate increase and funds a fire and medical staffing expansion and employee raises that city staff proposed earlier this year. The other two have a 1.5-mill hike and lower raises, and a 1-mill hike and ...
Lawrence will be raising stormwater rates by 7.5% in each of the next three years, similar to what it’s already doing with water and sewer rates.
At its meeting Tuesday night, the City Commission unanimously approved the three year-over-year rate increases for 2027, 2028 and 2029. Assistant director of Municipal Services and Operations Trevor Flynn said that this would be the first time the city had done a ...
Meet Valvin Muscat – sweet, flowery, “insane,” a bit of a heartbreaker, “kind of a pain in the kazoo,” if you ask Michelle Meyer.
“But boy, do they taste good,” she says after she cuts a cluster of the golden-green grapes off the vine at Holy-Field Vineyard and Winery in Basehor and pops one in her mouth. “They make incredible wine.”
Even if you’ve tasted a lot of wine, you might not have ...
Lawrence's 2027 budget process is nearing the finish line, and on Tuesday the City Commission will hold its public hearings on the budget and consider an increase in stormwater rates for 2027, 2028 and 2029.
As the Journal-World has reported, the city manager's proposed budget is just over $415 million and would feature a nearly 2-mill property tax rate increase. City leaders have said the increase is necessary ...
What to do about idling cars that aren’t going anywhere? And, what to do about policy ideas that aren’t going anywhere?
These were two of the big questions that Lawrence’s Environmental Sustainability Advisory Board faced on Thursday night, as it discussed how the city should measure its progress toward its environmental goals – and whether the board itself was making progress quickly enough.
The ...
Everywhere his journey as an artist has led, Reece Henderson has had to grapple with anxiety – and that includes his latest stint at the Lawrence Arts Center.
“I struggle with anxiety, personally,” says Henderson, the Arts Center’s new ceramics artist in residence. “Like, social anxiety, but also big-picture anxiety. Environmental issues, the state of the world.”
He’d heard about Lawrence long ...
