It is worth trumpeting that businesses and organizations in Lawrence and Douglas County have come together to pledge more than $2.1 million to economic development efforts over the next five years. That amount already is about a half million dollars more than the last fundraising campaign, and ...

Lawrence strives to be a compassionate community. That’s an admirable quality and a good goal that we should smartly try to build upon. Thus, it seems this question is reasonable: How is it compassionate to have at least 200 people living in tents or tarps all across the city, defecating in ...

A speaker at Wednesday’s Douglas County Commission meeting on the topic of a mask mandate for those 2 to 12 years old, said that such public health orders were comparable to the Holocaust. What a load of trash. Yes, public officials are supposed to value public comment. But sometimes the ...

Granted, the moments after you’ve hit the iceberg are not the best times to discuss the finer points of naval architecture and shipbuilding design. But, hopefully, after the Big 12 Conference gets disengaged from its current iceberg, its leaders will spend some time talking about how to build ...

The virus is not behind us. It is still in lots of us. That’s becoming clearer, more troubling and more frustrating by the day. The troubling part, of course, is that the number of deaths attributable to the virus is continuing to increase. Many of those deaths are needless. The frustrating ...

Important work to plan for downtown Lawrence’s future is underway. Local leaders as part of that effort should spend some time considering whether they’ve placed too much importance on its past. Historic preservation has long been a foundational piece of downtown Lawrence’s success. It ...