News and notes from around town: Call it the duck test, if you will. In the Oread neighborhood next to KU, if something looks like a big house — and all too often sounds like a big house — it is usually a big house. The neighborhood after all is full of students, and they love living and ...
A surge is coming. Within a few weeks, electric lines leading into the $4 billion Panasonic electric vehicle battery factory in De Soto will be hot with up to 290 megawatts of electricity. The employment lines at the plant — just about 20 minutes from eastern Lawrence — will be full, with ...
Updated at 9:50 a.m. Friday, June 21 Soon, turnpike toll booth workers will be a job of the past in Kansas, as the turnpike will eliminate all toll booths as part of a cashless tolling system that begins July 1. But Lawrence is set to have a whole new crop of turnpike jobs emerge. Lawrence ...
Fortunately, shopping isn’t like swimming. You don’t have to wait 30 minutes since you’ve last eaten. (I’m staying optimistic that day will come.) You can shop on an empty stomach. You can shop on a full stomach. You can even do both, and if you do, you are in the right frame of mind ...
Seats are on track. Beds are not. That may be the simplest update for the University of Kansas’ approximately $450 million Gateway project by the university’s football stadium at 11th and Mississippi streets. Work to add new premium seating, concessions and a host of other bells and ...
News and notes from around town: The Kansas City Chiefs are on a roll — and now they are in one too. A new downtown Lawrence sushi restaurant has opened, and one of its more popular menu items is a sushi roll named after the Chiefs. As a bonus, even folks with Andy Reid-like appetites are ...