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 ...
State legislators are considering a proposal to move city government and school board elections to even-numbered years – and a couple of Douglas County figures are saying that could add some new complications.
The proposal in the Legislature is called House Bill 2452, and it would change the timing of elections such as City Commission and school board races from odd-numbered years to even-numbered ones. ...
One of the biggest things to realize about the World Cup, city leaders heard on Tuesday night, is how much you have to entertain people.
Of course, they’re there to watch the games. But there are only six of those, spread out over two months, in the KC area. And the rest of the time, the tens or hundreds of thousands of visitors are looking for things to do, said Ruth DeWitt, community relations director at ...
When Lawrence's parks and rec advisory board learned how many people had signed up for rec center memberships after the city's first week of charging for access, there were actually gasps of surprise.
On Monday, interim parks and rec Director Lindsay Hart told the Parks, Recreation and Culture Advisory Board that 2,254 people had signed up for memberships so far — and “our goal is 3,000.”
“Oh, my!” ...
Before Lawrence city leaders approved a $3.15 million funding agreement with the Lawrence Community Shelter on Tuesday, Mayor Brad Finkeldei thought back to what this meeting would have looked like a few years ago.
There was a time, he said, when “we would put the LCS contract on the agenda and we’d have 80 people in the room” wanting to criticize the shelter, say the city wasn’t doing enough to help, ...
