A new downtown shop that sells coffee and frozen custard is not a big corporate operation. If it were, I sure would like to meet the manager who signed off on naming the business after a heroin-addicted punk rocker who also got tied up in a murder allegation. (Submit your expense accounts to ...
A longtime Lawrence medical practice has been bought by LMH Health and soon will have a new home on south Iowa Street. The nonprofit hospital announced today that it has finalized a deal with First Med, a nearly 30-year old walk-in clinic that operates just east of 23rd and Iowa streets. LMH ...
The local election season is hitting a key moment with Monday’s filing deadline near, and some readers have questions about some of the politics behind the races. Two questions seem to be the most frequent: Why is there a dearth of local Republican candidates, and have some of the Democrats ...
Not even Lawrence’s longtime tradition of a community fireworks show is safe from COVID-19. A representative of the local Jaycees club confirmed Wednesday that the show along the Kansas River won’t happen this year. “We safely could shoot off the fireworks, but we don’t have a way to ...
It could have been worse. It is a phrase I utter every time I leave a homemade haircut with both ears, and it also may echo in the city’s finance department after Lawrence leaders received their first sales tax check that has been slashed by the pandemic. The city’s May sales tax ...
Perhaps you noticed that May hasn’t been great on many fronts. (Granted, I have figured out how to gain weight despite having my mouth mostly covered, which is surely an advancement in ingenuity.) When it comes to unemployment, the news isn’t great anywhere, but there are some particularly ...