As young artists ran paint brushes over a concrete wall in southern Lawrence, Rick Wright explained the types of brush strokes that would suit the project. Wright, the art director for Van Go Inc., told one teenager she could make the strokes move in a direction to suggest a breaking wave, and ...
Many important local and state offices will be on the ballot in the general election on Nov. 3. This voters guide will help you get to know some of the issues at stake and refresh your memory about some of the local races that were all but decided during August's primaries. To view the ...
Three judges on the bench in Douglas County District Court will be on the ballot for retention in the Nov. 3 general election. Chief Judge James McCabria, Judge Kay Huff and Judge Mark Simpson, all of Lawrence, only need a simple majority of “yes” votes to retain their seats, County Clerk ...
Two Douglas County Commission candidates who opposed the county’s plan to expand its jail will face off in the upcoming general election. The two candidates — Pam McDermott, a Republican, and Shannon Portillo, a Democrat — come from different political parties, but their views on ...
After a long and drawn-out count of the votes in the Democratic primary election, candidate Shannon Reid appears likely to fill the 2nd District seat for the Douglas County Commission. However, her name won’t be the only one on the ballot when voters take to the polls on Nov. 3. Reid, 35, ...
While the 2020 general election will decide many major political races, a lot of local candidates won’t face challengers on Nov. 3. In Douglas County, 11 state and county races on the ballot will be uncontested — either those races were decided between candidates during the primary ...
With election day nearing, Douglas County Clerk Jamie Shew told the Journal-World his office has been working to dispel misinformation that has been getting to voters. As residents are being asked to cast their general election ballots during a global pandemic, Shew said he and his office ...
The construction of a planned behavioral health crisis center for Douglas County is expected to cost $8 million. The estimated cost was presented to the Douglas County Commission on Wednesday during a presentation about the construction progress of the Treatment and Recovery Campus of Douglas ...
Douglas County housing dedicated to helping people with behavioral health issues may soon begin taking on residents. The County Commission on Wednesday will hear an update about the Treatment and Recovery Campus of Douglas County, which the county and local health organizations have been ...
While the current Douglas County Commission has discontinued its plan to expand the county jail, candidates vying to fill two of the three seats on the commission say the work on criminal justice is not finished. Opposing candidates running for the open 3rd District seat of the County ...
Fewer people were booked into the Douglas County Jail in 2018 than in the years prior, but the inmates’ average stays were about 4 1/2 days longer, recently published reports show. The Journal-World reported in May about a number of various reports that were missing from the websites of the ...
The Douglas County Commission on Wednesday kickstarted the process to amend part of its comprehensive plan to allow for a single property to subdivide its land. The commissioners voted 2-1 to approve an amendment to Plan 2040, its joint comprehensive plan with the City of Lawrence, to change ...
Douglas County may soon make changes to its comprehensive plan to allow for a rural property owner to subdivide his land for residential purposes. The County Commission on Wednesday will consider an amendment to Plan 2040, its joint comprehensive plan with the City of Lawrence, to change the ...
Updated at 12:42 p.m. Thursday: Douglas County has joined a new multiyear initiative that aims to measurably reduce jail stays for people with serious mental illness, or SMI, and to track their connections to care. The “nationwide call to action,” called Set, Measure, Achieve, pushes for ...
The Douglas County Commission on Wednesday laid to rest a long-debated plan to expand the local jail. Commissioners passed a resolution in January to move forward with the roughly $30 million expansion of the Douglas County Jail, but they recently asked to reexamine the project because of ...
This past week, Apple and Google launched similar versions of a new function built into phone software that allows public health agencies to anonymously inform people if they were in close contact with someone who tested positive for COVID-19. The two tech giants developed the technology ...
About eight months after the Douglas County Commission approved a controversial expansion of its jail facility, the commissioners are now on the verge of formally abandoning the plan. The County Commission on Wednesday will consider repealing a resolution it approved in January that ...
Three weeks after announcing the creation of a 27-member task force dedicated to reviewing policies on local policing, the University of Kansas on Wednesday announced two public listening sessions and a town hall at which the public can bring concerns to the task force. Because of the ...
A mailer from the United States Postal Service about advance mail voting has recently reached Douglas County homes after causing some controversy in a neighboring state. But the information on the mailer doesn’t affect much for county voters, a local election official said Tuesday. The ...
The Douglas County Commission will not meet this week. Karrey Britt, a spokeswoman for the county, said the commissioners canceled their meeting for Wednesday because September is a five-week month. Normally, the commissioners meet each Wednesday evening, but they often cancel a meeting if ...