Last year wasn’t a great year to earn money in Douglas County. But — brace yourself for a phrase we don’t often say when it comes to money — at least we weren’t Johnson County. The federal government has released statistics showing the per capita personal income for every county in ...
I’ve said this to a few people, a few different times, already this season, but last night’s effort by the Kansas defense in a 69-64 win over No. 7 Duke inspired me to write about it. I cannot remember seeing a Kansas team that played this hard and with this much intensity on the ...
Story updated at 4 p.m. Wednesday: KU plans to build a 600-person conference and event center that would be integrated into the north bowl of its football stadium, according to a concept plan obtained by the Journal-World. While the plans aren’t set in stone, the concept answers one of the ...
I hesitate to make the comparison because of everything that Ochai Agbaji went on to do during his final season as a Kansas Jayhawk. But if you haven’t at least thought briefly about Ochai while watching Jalen Wilson go off to open the season, I’m not sure you’ve been watching closely ...
Shoppers will soon have to look beyond Lawrence to find a Bed Bath & Beyond. The chain retailer has announced that it is closing its lone Lawrence location. The store in the Pine Ridge Plaza shopping center near 33rd and Iowa streets has the going-out-of-business signs up and is running ...
The kinds of mistakes that the Kansas football program has largely avoided throughout the season hurt the Jayhawks in a big way Saturday night in Lubbock, Texas. Two missed field goals and two turnovers by Kansas quarterback Jason Bean played a huge role in Texas Tech’s 43-28 win over ...
It’s still early in the 2022-23 college basketball season, yet Kansas fans already have seen KU freshmen Gradey Dick and MJ Rice make pretty memorable college debuts in back to back games. Both players used the word “dream” when describing their first games as Jayhawks, and both had a ...
As a city-operated campground for the homeless has grown on the edge of downtown, business owners in recent weeks have begun protesting that the central business district is no place for such a campground. Come to find out, they may have a powerful document on their side: the city’s own ...
It’s been a while since anyone’s had to take a real look at how the Kansas football program could earn its way into the Big 12 Championship game. But that time is here. And it’s real. It’s also pretty simple. I’ll give you a minute to catch your breath and take a seat if you ...
Johnny’s Tavern in North Lawrence plans to reopen on Friday morning after owners had closed the historic bar for the last three days in protest of how the city is operating a homeless encampment next to the business. Rick Renfro, an owner of Johnny’s Tavern, said he’s decided to reopen ...
Lawrence got its welcome into the Big 1st Congressional District on Tuesday. Consider these numbers: 1st District Democratic candidate Jimmy Beard won Douglas County by 17,125 votes, receiving 75% of the vote in the largest county in the sprawling 1st District. Yet, Beard came nowhere close ...
Brad Ziegler is convinced that a German stonemason a century ago saved lives at his Lawrence restaurant last Friday. Ziegler got a call from the manager at his Big Mill restaurant saying that a vehicle had crashed through the storefront of the restaurant at the corner of Ninth and Mississippi ...
Thanks to Saturday’s 37-16 win over 18th-ranked Oklahoma State, the Kansas football team and its fans no longer have to wonder if the Jayhawks will end their bowl drought this season. It’s happening. With six wins in nine games and three more chances to add to their win total before the ...
It is a piece of business advice you don’t hear in every how-to-become rich book: Be willing to enjoy what you are doing. Perhaps it should come as no surprise that Tom Dobski, an owner of Lawrence’s McDonald’s franchise, ranks it as a key to business success. After all, he literally ...
It took at least half of a song-and-dance routine for Kansas to convince Panasonic to locate its $4 billion, 4,000-job electric vehicle battery plant in the state. Kansas officials revealed that detail while offering a host of thank-yous and a few announcements on Wednesday at a ...
“Loveee-ly Lawrence, Kansas” is undergoing a scenery change in used car dealers. After approximately 40 years in business, Lawrence’s Academy Cars — the one with the tag line “in lovee-ly Lawrence, Kansas” — has sold to a family-owned dealership group with operations in Iowa and ...
Last week, Kansas basketball coach [Bill Self mentioned the possibility of using senior walk-on Michael Jankovich in the rotation][1] this season to bolster KU’s 3-point shooting. It makes sense given the fact that Jankovich’s best skill is and always has been his ability to shoot the ...
It’s been a few weeks since football fans in Lawrence made it their mission to Pack the Booth and fill up David Booth Kansas Memorial Stadium for the surprising Jayhawks’ home games. And even though Kansas has lost three games in a row since its last campaign to sell out the home stadium, ...
You know you are not exactly in the Wall Street fast lane if the big merger you have been wondering about involves tractors instead of tweets. While the fellows in the Teslas have been wondering about the future of Twitter, those of us who drive something with a granny gear have wondered if ...
Kansas basketball coach Bill Self has long said that freshman guard Gradey Dick stands to benefit as much as anyone on KU’s roster this season when it comes to name, image and likeness opportunities, simply because of his status as the reigning Gatorade national player of the year. On ...
