James Chiselom doesn’t like to talk about how the Lawrence Community Shelter looked in 2024, when he started as executive director.
“People couldn’t feel safe here, people were abused here, people were victimized here,” he said. The shelter had cycled through seven other leaders in roughly a decade, and less than a year earlier it had warned that closure was imminent without more funding and ...
One of Mike Dever’s regrets from his earlier terms on the City Commission is that “I went eight years without spending money on art.”
Dever first served on the commission from 2007 to 2015, a time that included the Great Recession. Back then, he said at Tuesday’s Lawrence City Commission meeting, “we weren’t building, we weren’t spending, we weren’t constructing very many large projects, so the ...
What do cities, counties and educational institutions need to do to avoid fines of up to $125,000 a day under Kansas' new anti-transgender bathroom law?
The answer at the local level seems to be: We're still trying to figure that out.
The law, SB 244, took effect in February after the Republican-controlled Legislature overrode Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly's veto to pass it. Its provisions require public ...
Lawrence Transit is proposing changes to several of its bus routes later this year, including two changes that would let riders stop at the new Dillons grocery store on the University of Kansas' West Campus.
The potential route changes were announced Wednesday in a news release from Lawrence Transit, and you can tell the city how you feel about them in a survey that's now online at the Lawrence Listens ...
Lawrence’s Community Building will remain free to use for a few more months, city leaders decided on Tuesday night.
The Lawrence City Commission voted Tuesday for a three-month extension of the building’s free access trial program, which has been going on since the city started charging for access at its other recreation facilities in January.
At one time last year, the city had planned to close the ...
The Community Building, which is currently the City of Lawrence's only free recreation center, has seen more than twice as many visits in the first two months of 2026 as in the same time period in 2025.
That's according to statistics from Parks, Recreation and Culture staff that the Lawrence City Commission is slated to discuss next week. The commission will hear a presentation about how the Community ...
