It was a spring afternoon in June 2012, and Lawrence City Manager David Corliss was spinning a tale before city commissioners. It is a common one in city halls: If you want to follow the growth of a city, follow the sewers. Hey, no one ever said City Hall tales are sexy. But, they are often ...
In the world of water and sewer utilities, what you can’t see often rules the day — miles and miles of pipes beneath the ground. Those pipes, some more than a century old, are the most frequent exhibit city officials point to when residents question why water and sewer bills in Lawrence ...
As water and sewer rates are soaring in Lawrence, the whereabouts of $1.8 million of ratepayer funds at City Hall is unclear, a Journal-World investigation has found. While reviewing years of audited financial statements and budget records in an attempt to learn more about why Lawrence ...
State law requires residents of a county to be notified of a lot of different legal matters that are underway at any given time. That includes pending foreclosures of homes, new ordinances proposed by local governments, legal name changes of your neighbors, and even the sales that dispose of ...
Paula Kissinger is in her 70s now, but she vividly remembers responding to a call as a police officer in the summer of 1981: A young student had been brutally raped at knifepoint by a stranger on the KU campus and had barely escaped with her life. Kissinger took the initial crime report, ...
State law requires residents of a county to be notified of a lot of different legal matters that are underway at any given time. That includes pending foreclosures of homes, new ordinances proposed by local governments, legal name changes of your neighbors, and even the sales that dispose of ...