You might guess that as a telecommunications CEO, Midco’s Pat McAdaragh is all about speed. But there’s something slow that he finds beautiful – the restored prairie in the yard of his Minnesota home.
“It’s just been wonderful, almost spiritual to watch that thing change yearly,” McAdaragh said on Wednesday. “It’s like having living artwork out there.”
So, when he had an old vacant lot behind ...
For the second year in a row, the Lawrence Police Department has received a top honor for traffic safety from the Kansas Department of Transportation.
KDOT law enforcement liaison Don Hughes presented the "platinum" safety award to members of LPD on Tuesday night at the Lawrence City Commission's meeting. The department, he said, had told KDOT about its traffic enforcement and other things it does to keep ...
Before they voted 5-0 to add extra layers of public hearings and oversight to the approval process for data centers, Lawrence city commissioners wanted the crowd at City Hall to know what they weren’t voting on.
“This is not a discussion on what final regulations we’ll look at two years from now,” Mayor Brad Finkeldei said. It’s not about bans on specific kinds of entities, water use, electricity use ...
Lawrence city leaders have agreed to take part in a new pilot program that helps nonprofits take over certain blighted and abandoned homes and rehabilitate them as affordable housing.
At its meeting Tuesday, the Lawrence City Commission voted unanimously to approve the city’s participation in the Kansas Abandoned Housing Act project, which it applied for earlier this year. Gregg Lombardi of Kansas City-based ...
It was on Ninth Street in the 1990s, Michael Almon remembers, that a movement for bike safety began in Lawrence – and it began with a tragedy.
Almon, leader of the Sustainability Action Network, recounted it on Monday morning: how, in 1998, Jon Hermes was riding his bicycle at Ninth and Mississippi and was struck and killed by a dump truck. It happened right in front of the Community Mercantile, which was ...
Lawrence has been chosen for a pilot program that uses a state law to acquire and rehabilitate abandoned homes for affordable housing, and city leaders could give their final approval for it next week.
At its meeting Tuesday, the Lawrence City Commission will be asked to approve the city’s participation in the Kansas Abandoned Housing Act project. The city applied for the program earlier this year, and in ...
