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 ...
A program that lets law enforcement obtain surplus equipment from the Department of Defense isn’t a step toward “militarizing” the Lawrence Police Department, Chief Rich Lockhart said on Tuesday evening.
At its regular meeting on Tuesday, the City Commission voted unanimously to give the Lawrence Police Department permission to participate in the DoD’s Law Enforcement Service Office program, which ...
Lawrence city commissioners all agree that they want a new fire station in northwest Lawrence – but they don’t yet agree on a proposed property tax increase to fund the expansion.
On Tuesday, the City Commission had its first chance to discuss city staff’s 2027 budget proposal, which among other things would raise the property tax rate by 3 mills to help fund operations for the future Fire Station 6. The ...
The City of Lawrence's preliminary budget for 2027 would include an approximately 3-mill property tax rate increase for fire and medical expansion, and city commissioners will get their first chance to discuss it at their meeting next week.
On Tuesday, the commission will be asked to give feedback on several issues related to the 2027 budget, including their thoughts on the proposed mill levy increase to ...
