Everything that goes around comes around — just not always in the correct order. That was proven on Sunday by the blankety-blank No. 6. The horses indeed went all the way around the track at Eureka Downs, but I never could quite get them to come around in the right order. I lost a $1 ...

Lounging on the beach is great. Basking on the beach is even better. Doing so with access to a free beach house . . . come on, what could possibly come next? A mermaid? No, a nonconference basketball game between KU and the Loyola Maryland Greyhounds. What? You want us to lug a TV down to ...

I think Lawrence might be the most compassionate community in Kansas. Think about it: Local government created its own mental health center to provide the compassion the state’s understaffed mental healthcare system hasn’t provided. Lawrence has not one, but two, tiny home projects ...

A mistake was made, and what ensued was not a great look for local government. Last week, the city of Lawrence’s Affordable Housing Advisory Board met to begin the process of awarding about $700,000 of taxpayer funds to affordable housing projects. Step No. 1 of the process is to determine ...

I can’t seem to get Costco off my mind. The thoughts are about $80 million deep. As I wrote last week, that’s a conservative estimate of how much money the store — which opens in northwest Lawrence on Oct. 29 — will send to the state of Kansas in sales tax dollars over the next 20 ...

Former Gov. Kathleen Sebelius once said that in Kansas “Democrats don’t win; Republicans lose.” Given how registered Republicans greatly outnumber registered Democrats throughout the state, that makes sense: Sometimes low-engagement Republicans dislike their party’s candidates and just ...