Baker University on Thursday released a pair of statements about land development projects near the Baker Wetlands, one in response to the sprawling New Boston Crossing development proposal and the other regarding the university potentially selling a piece of land adjacent to the wetlands. The ...
Story updated at 8:19 p.m. Thursday, April 25: The Lawrence Community Shelter Board of Directors on Thursday approved a collective bargaining agreement for a group of unionized shelter workers that, in part, would raise all employees' pay to at least $20 an hour. As the Journal-World has ...
FRIDAY Final Friday Art Walk includes: Corinna Delgado and other artists, “Mental Health Month,” 6-9 p.m., Art Love Collective, 646 Vermont St. “The Eye of Erin,” works by Erin Spiridigliozzi, 4:30-6 p.m., Lawrence Public Library, 707 Vermont St. Photography by Brandon Cale, 10 ...
Wheeler Parker Jr. was worried about the words that might come out of his cousin’s mouth. His cousin, Emmett Till, you see, had not been to the South. He was a Black teenager from Chicago, and there had been much discussion in August 1955 among the Till and Wheeler families of whether ...
On Wednesday, Douglas County leaders got a comprehensive briefing on the county’s revised regulations for wind energy projects — and had plenty of clarifying questions to ask — with a week to go before they’re expected to make a final decision on the rules. In fact, the Douglas County ...
In the wake of the public release of an investigative report on wide-ranging misconduct at Haskell Indian Nations University, U.S. Sen. Jerry Moran is asking the U.S. Department of the Interior to undertake a “systemic overhaul” of the federal office that oversees the university’s ...