Given that Katie Hoke is an interior architect, it is not surprising that she knows a pretty specific detail about the configuration of the coffee shop she owns with business partners: It is 16 feet long — including the hitch. Yes, the coffee shop is inside an Airstream camping trailer, ...
Developing the area just north of Rock Chalk Park has, at times, looked like the middle-age, full-court pick-up basketball games that take place at the adjacent sports center — slow moving with more plans than points. Now, there is a development hoping to break the drought. Plans have been ...
Sometimes barbecue can produce false signals. When sitting across from my dining companion and she points to her cheek, I assume that means she wants to see if I can fit even more food into my mouth. Come to find out, she was just trying to alert me that I have half a bottle of barbecue sauce ...
A seat by the waterside is a well-known relaxant. Less well-known is a kiss by a fish. Well, a virtual fish kiss, that is. Dana Hunter, co-owner of the new North Lawrence garden and pond shop Botanical Dreams, has a koi pond at her Lawrence-area home. She said a highlight of her day is when ...
By one measure, Lawrence’s economy is off to a strong start in 2025. Sales tax collections are growing at a rate well above the statewide average, and the city is posting some of the largest increases of any major retail market in the state. Why? Cupid’s arrow, perhaps. That’s as good ...
LMH Health President and CEO Russ Johnson has made a career of watching the money in health care. As he gets set to retire this summer, he made an observation about money and medicine. There’s probably too much money in the industry for it ever to change on its own. Johnson, when chatting ...