News and notes from around town: ••• A flock of Jayhawks, so to speak, has delivered more than a half-million dollars in funding to a group of KU-connected start-up companies. As we’ve reported, officials at KU Innovation Park have created a new “angel investor” network that ...

Lawrence not only set a new record low for single-family home construction in 2024, it took a hammer and saw to the old record and demolished it. The City of Lawrence issued just 57 single-family building permits during the last year, which was well below the previous low-water mark of 79 ...

Many of you are probably familiar with the television program “MythBusters,” where a group of somewhat nerdy science aficionados disprove many myths — often by blowing something up. Well, the folks at the U.S. Census Bureau can do the same thing, and usually use a lot less dynamite in ...

The world may have been bumpy in 2024, but shoppers were steady. The city of Lawrence’s budget: Less so. We now have a year’s worth of sales tax collections in the book, and Lawrence’s 2024 totals don’t look much different than 2023 figures. Lawrence sales tax collections were up by ...

Here’s a resolution for you in 2025: Use fewer forks. It might save you money (although wet wipe bills may eat into some of those savings.) What possibly could be my point? Not to quibble, but I have four of them. (I think that is true even if we are talking about a spork.) Forks can cost ...

East Lawrence is set to get another affordable housing project, but the broader community may get something that proves even more valuable out of the venture — an affordable housing method. As we reported last month, a project in the Warehouse Arts District in East Lawrence was selected by ...