It is time to check in on Joe and Jane Average and their taxes again. Sure, you know Joe and Jane. They live in an average Lawrence home and they make an average Lawrence wage. They have friends in cities across the state who also live in average homes in those communities and make average ...
Let’s do some news and notes from around town: — It sure sounds like the new owners of longtime Lawrence-based business Allen Press — now known as Sheridan Kansas — are making some changes that are impacting jobs at the company’s East Lawrence facility. I’ve heard from multiple ...
In the span of four days this week, four players who helped make up the Kansas men’s basketball team’s bench during the 2022-23 season made the decision to enter the transfer portal instead of returning to Kansas for another season. There could be more where that came from, but, either ...
The University of Kansas is getting more serious about adding a hotel next to its football stadium as part of a larger gateway project that would try to make the area a destination for conventions. Chancellor Douglas Girod also confirmed in a brief interview that KU is in formal discussions ...
Lawrence has hit a 10-year low in the number of homes sold, but not even that has been enough to cause home prices to cool, a new report from the Lawrence Board of Realtors shows. In fact, Lawrence home prices remained red hot in February, according to the latest figures. That makes Lawrence ...
Another men’s basketball season is over at KU, and you know what they say at the winningest program in college basketball: You don’t rebuild at Kansas — you reload. Well, this year, they’ll also refurbish. As we’ve been reporting for the past couple of weeks, plans are in the ...
I’ve covered Kansas basketball for a long time and seen all kinds of teams and outcomes. But I can’t recall any team that overcame quite as much as the 2022-23 squad, which saw its season come to an end in heartbreaking fashion Saturday night in Des Moines, Iowa. A damn good Arkansas ...
Plans are accelerating to convert one of the oldest buildings in Lawrence into an an event hall and restaurant on the edge of downtown. Owners of the historic Turnhalle building — an 1869 stone structure at 900 Rhode Island St. — have filed plans to construct a small addition that will ...
Des Moines, Iowa — The general consensus of opinion among the Jayhawks is that the biggest difference between the way assistant coach Norm Roberts manages a game on the bench and the way head coach Bill Self does it is that Self is much louder and Roberts is much calmer. On Thursday ...
If empty cartons were the requirement to become Lawrence’s royal family of ice cream, mine might well be on the throne. But it’s not, and we aren’t. Instead, for about 50 years, the Walter family has been in the best position to claim that title as the owner of Lawrence and Douglas ...
Pan — the Spanish word for “bread” — is a big part of the relatively new Mexican bakery and restaurant at 19th and Haskell. Pandemic, the English word for “oh #%@!!!” — is a big part of how the small business came to be. Javier Angeles and Lucia Cano — owners of Angeles ...
There are new questions surrounding the legality of the unsanctioned homeless camp on city-owned property behind the Amtrak train station in East Lawrence. Actually, the questions may be circling overhead. Bald eagles. An inquiry by the Journal-World has found that the city-owned property ...
There’s been a fair amount of outrage tossed toward the NCAA Tournament selection committee in the aftermath of the committee’s decision to seed Houston above Kansas in the upcoming Big Dance. Understandably so. The committee got that one wrong. Kansas had by far the better resumé — ...
Let’s do some news and notes from around town: — Look for a fairly sizable apartment complex to spring up near the intersection of 23rd Street and O’Connell Road. Plans have been filed for a project that would build eight two-story apartment buildings on the approximately 8.5 acres that ...
Kansas City, Mo. — There’s never really a right time to hear that someone — anyone — has been admitted to the hospital for a potentially scary situation that could affect their longterm health. But for those of us in the storytelling business, Thursday was, in a way, the right day for ...
County officials oppose putting a new homeless project on county-owned land by the Lawrence Community Shelter, in part, because the site isn’t visible enough in the community and is too near the Douglas County Jail. A county spokeswoman on Wednesday said those were two of four strong ...
Talks for the city to buy a vacant lot near 19th and Haskell for a new homeless shelter project have fallen through, according to an owner of the property. Tony Krsnich, who leads a group that owns the property at 800 Lynn St., told me that negotiations with the city have ended without a ...
In the course of one day, Douglas County officials have changed their tune on whether they think a proposed village project for the homeless would be appropriate on county-owned land behind the Lawrence Community Shelter. On Monday, a top county official said county staff had never researched ...
There are indications that the city is interested in a site near 18th and Haskell to locate a unique “pallet home” project that would provide small shelters for about 75 individuals who are homeless. While city officials won’t confirm whether it is targeting the Haskell Avenue property, ...
You’ve watched the games, followed the scores, tracked the race and seen the slugfest that the Big 12 Conference became this basketball season. Now, you’ve been tasked with predicting how the conference tournament will play out. Good luck. One of the easiest ways to start this ...
