“You don’t have no (expletive) brains?” The voice explodes from the speaker. It's a man from a San Jose, California, area code, and he's leaving a voicemail for a school board member in Lawrence, Kansas, nearly 1,500 miles away. “You cannot do that to people,” the voice says. “You ...
Lawrence’s Historic Resources Commission deadlocked on Thursday on plans for 15 new row houses in a vacant parking lot in downtown Lawrence, even after the project tweaked its design to match the surrounding area. The commission voted 2-2 Thursday night on the proposal for a three-story ...
Closure of a portion of Tennessee Street near Old West Lawrence is scheduled to begin Monday and will likely last until midsummer, the City of Lawrence said in a news release Thursday. Starting Monday, contractors working on the Jayhawk Watershed Middle Reach Project will fully close Tennessee ...
A portion of the property that was home to a former call center — and at one point was considered as a location for Lawrence’s City Hall — could potentially be rezoned for residential redevelopment. The Lawrence-Douglas County Planning Commission will consider a request to rezone ...
Updated at 4:07 p.m. Wednesday, April 16 A former candidate for federal office has filed for a seat on the Lawrence City Commission. Paul Buskirk, a special adviser in the University of Kansas athletics department, filed to run for a commission seat on Wednesday. Buskirk previously ran for ...
City leaders expressed appreciation Tuesday for the work being done to improve relationships between Lawrence police and the community, including efforts to handle mental health calls differently and to give people a chance to interact with officers outside of their normal duties. At the ...