The first question of the night for the North Lawrence corridor study task force was no softball: “Burger at Johnny’s, or enchiladas at La Tropicana?” “That’s really tough,” said one committee member when they saw the informal poll at the start of the meeting. “That IS tough,” another echoed. “This is the hard part,” joked consultant Bill Madsen. “We’re going to have to make decisions ...
While electric vehicles, or EVs, have been steadily rising in popularity in Douglas County, the area's charging infrastructure has some growing to do, a new report from local planning officials suggests. The report is called the Douglas County EV Readiness Report. It was produced by the Lawrence-Douglas County Metropolitan Planning Organization and the city and county sustainability departments, and its goal is ...
Actor Tyson Williams has spent a lot of time looking for Martin Luther King Jr. He’ll be playing the civil rights leader on stage next week, and he’s searched for him in articles, in recordings, in the motel in Memphis where King was assassinated. In his imagination, the one place he finds King over and over is in the audience. He asks himself: If King were there for Theatre Lawrence’s production of ...
In the North Lawrence Comprehensive Corridor Study, big questions are taking shape about safety, identity and connections to the rest of the city, and the study's task force will soon think more about what to do next. At its meeting on Tuesday, the task force will hear about recent public feedback efforts to inform the study, including a survey, workshops and listening sessions. Then, they're expected to ...
If you want to see what comes of the City Commission’s business trips, you might take a trip down North Michigan Street. The Village of Pallet cabins for the homeless there is a project that the city might not have done had leaders not heard about it at a conference, Mayor Brad Finkeldei told the Journal-World this week. It also might not have applied for certain federal grants, or made certain deals with KU, ...
To make businesses easier to access during the Ninth Street stormwater project, the city is turning to a new type of parking – one right in the middle of the street. On Wednesday, striping crews were painting new angled parking in the middle of the 500 block of Ninth Street. City spokesman Michael Leos said via email that there would be 13 temporary parking spaces there that will stay until Ninth Street ...