News and notes from the world of local technology start-ups. ••• A business incubator on KU’s West Campus is in the early stages of becoming a research hub for what some would say is “spooky” science. I’m talking about quantum physics (a former science teacher of mine just ...

UPDATED 2:30 P.M. AUG. 19 A company that already employs about 150 high-paid pipefitters and sheetmetal workers at Lawrence VenturePark is beginning the process to build a second production center in the eastern Lawrence business park. US Engineering has filed plans with Lawrence City Hall ...

News and notes from around town: — The day is likely coming that you could travel from the east side of town to the west side of town and have a piece of Casey’s pizza the whole way. And, of course, this in no way involves eating more slowly. Rather, there are signs that a ...

If pigs could fly ... they still might not be as indispensable as the one inside the bathroom of Footprints, the longtime Lawrence shoe store on south Massachusetts Street. That pig — a tile version on the bathroom wall — has a toilet paper dispenser hanging out of its rear end. Soon, ...

UPDATED 9:25 P.M. AUG. 11 They say football is a game of inches. So too, is an approximately $750 million redevelopment of KU’s football stadium, as evidenced by the thickness of the legal documents governing the project. There’s a big — 262 pages — and important document up for ...

I have never gotten excited about the phrase “Christmas in July” because it usually has ended with a touch of heat stroke after cutting down a pine tree in the Kansas heat. But City Hall officials may be appreciative of the phrase about now. The state’s July sales tax report showed a ...