The September shooting of a man by Topeka police underscores the problem created by the unrivaled lack of transparency in Kansas when it comes to law enforcement records.A Topeka police officer shot and killed Dominique White, who is black, during an incident on Sept. 28 at Ripley Park in ...

Douglas Girod’s first major decision as chancellor of the University of Kansas isn’t going to be popular with the university’s dwindling base of football fans.Nor should it be.In a message titled “Football and Our National Aspirations,” Girod reiterated his confidence in athletic ...

Mark Zuckerberg came off as strange during his visit last week to Lawrence. That may be unfair to the founder and CEO of Facebook. Perhaps his visit to the University of Kansas simply was mishandled by others. Or, maybe, a sense of strangeness is an unfortunate attribute of being one of the ...

What the city of Lawrence wouldn’t give to go back in time and renegotiate the terms of taking over the former Farmland Industries fertilizer plant. Never has something billed as free been so expensive.The city took ownership of the former fertilizer plant in 2010 with the plan of using part ...

The shooting at a small church in Sutherland Springs, Texas has rightfully reignited debates over guns in America.Even if Devin Kelley — who used an assault rifle to kill 26 people, including eight children, while they were attending church last Sunday — had been the first person to use a ...

Given the recent financial management issues uncovered within the city of Lawrence, it was disheartening but not surprising to learn the city had not collected about $430,000 in payments owed to it by Douglas County.The county and city share the costs of running the Lawrence-Douglas County ...