After dropping two spots in the Associated Press Top 25 following their trouncing of Missouri a week ago, the Kansas men’s basketball team made up for it by jumping four spots in this week’s poll after pounding Indiana on Saturday. Kansas, which has won four consecutive games by an ...
During the height of the pandemic, the city of Lawrence spent nearly $250,000 of federal money to purchase three mobile trailers that provided flush toilets, hot showers and laundry facilities. In late 2020, those trailers seemed like they could be a lifesaver in a world that had turned to ...
Fresh off of the best offensive game of his Kansas career, it could be KJ Adams’ defense that matters most in the 8th-ranked Jayhawks’ Saturday showdown with No. 14 Indiana. But whether Adams is the one Kansas will turn to to try to slow down Indiana big man Trayce Jackson-Davis, who is ...
Kansas basketball coach Bill Self pulled out an old trick during the Jayhawks’ practices leading up to last Saturday’s rout of Missouri in Columbia. And it’s one that dates all the way back to KU’s matchup with UAB in the Sweet 16 in St. Louis during the 2004 NCAA Tournament. That ...
The granddaddy of economic statistics for counties across America is out for last year, and it shows Douglas County’s economy was slightly above average. The numbers also show Lawrence could use a lot more years like it, as Douglas County still hasn’t made up from all its losses during the ...
The 2022 calendar year has been a good one for supporters of the University of Kansas’ athletic teams, and Jayhawk fans have proven that they’re capable of big things. It’s time for those big things to start including the crowds at Allen Fieldhouse for Kansas women’s basketball games. ...
Many starting wages at the new $4 billion Panasonic battery plant in nearby De Soto will be in the $20 to $25 an hour range, a Lawrence consultant working with the company said. That’s good information for potential job seekers to have, but also valuable information for area companies as ...
The Football Writers Association of America released the eight coaches chosen as finalists for this year’s Eddie Robinson Coach of the Year Award, and Kansas coach Lance Leipold did not make the cut. There are probably a number of valid reasons why Leipold, who led KU to a 6-6 season and ...
Long before Gradey Dick arrived on KU’s campus, Kansas basketball coach Bill Self said the five-star freshman from Wichita stood to benefit the most of anyone on KU’s 2022-23 roster from the abundance of name, image and likeness opportunities headed his way. More than all the jerseys and ...
For a few hours on Tuesday, it looked like a plan by Bert Nash Community Mental Health Center to build supportive housing for the homeless atop a downtown grocery store had reemerged. And it looked like the idea was as controversial as ever among some downtown business owners and ...
Here’s the latest sign you are becoming old: You start telling young homeowners worried about rising interest rates how high your mortgage rate was on your first home. (Mine was 8.75%, and the home had a driveway that was uphill — both ways.) Maybe some Lawrence homebuyers are getting the ...
Plans have been filed at City Hall that would allow for more than 180,000 square feet of new retail space that could accommodate more than a dozen large and small retailers in far west Lawrence. A Lawrence-based development company is seeking to rezone vacant property at the southwest corner ...
We’re now just two days away from finding out who and where Kansas will play in its first bowl appearance in 14 years, but Action Network’s Brett McMurphy on Friday provided a clue into who it might not be. [According to a report from McMurphy,][1] who has covered college football for ...
It feels like it was just yesterday that former Kansas Athletic Director Lew Perkins forced the hiring of Turner Gill and then paid him way more than he was worth — or needed to come to KU — simply because he wanted to create the perception that the Kansas football job was a $2 million a ...
It almost is a truism in a college town: When you get a place with more space, get more couches. (The two hardest parts about moving my college-age son were the number of couches, and getting people off of them.) The situation is not quite the same at Habitat for Humanity’s new ReStore, but ...
As the calendar turned to fall, inflation was soaring in Lawrence and across the state, the latest Kansas sales tax figures suggest. But they also suggest something else: Consumers never blinked. The latest numbers from the state show sales tax collections in Lawrence were up a whopping 30% ...
There has been some question, concern and confusion among Kansas fans surrounding whether the 6-6 Jayhawks are a lock to play in a bowl this postseason. They are. And we’ll officially know which bowl they’ll be playing in one week from today, when the bowl pairings are announced on ESPN. ...
The day after KU won the NCAA National Championship, the Journal-World set up a folding card table outside our office door to sell copies of the newspaper. We sold so many that I joked if I had gotten an MBA, I would have thought to set up two card tables. Less visible but even busier were ...
Obviously the pilgrims chose turkey for the first Thanksgiving because the drive-thru burger joint was closed for the holiday. Maybe the history books differ on that contention, but it is a fact that I’ve got hamburgers on my mind. Particularly, Whataburgers. In case you have forgotten, ...
Maybe the online buying trend has gone a step too far. (I’m not saying that because Amazon has asked whether my home has a loading dock.) One new Lawrence entrepreneur believes online shopping has taken hold in an area that doesn’t make much sense — maternity clothing. Kisha Cranston is ...
