UPDATED 9 P.M. AUG. 21 Douglas County’s newest next-door neighbor may soon be a big, energy-hungry, water-thirsty data center that provides the computer power for artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies. The city council in nearby De Soto on Thursday evening took the first ...
News and notes from the world of local technology start-ups. ••• A business incubator on KU’s West Campus is in the early stages of becoming a research hub for what some would say is “spooky” science. I’m talking about quantum physics (a former science teacher of mine just ...
UPDATED 2:30 P.M. AUG. 19 A company that already employs about 150 high-paid pipefitters and sheetmetal workers at Lawrence VenturePark is beginning the process to build a second production center in the eastern Lawrence business park. US Engineering has filed plans with Lawrence City Hall ...
News and notes from around town: — The day is likely coming that you could travel from the east side of town to the west side of town and have a piece of Casey’s pizza the whole way. And, of course, this in no way involves eating more slowly. Rather, there are signs that a ...
If pigs could fly ... they still might not be as indispensable as the one inside the bathroom of Footprints, the longtime Lawrence shoe store on south Massachusetts Street. That pig — a tile version on the bathroom wall — has a toilet paper dispenser hanging out of its rear end. Soon, ...
UPDATED 9:25 P.M. AUG. 11 They say football is a game of inches. So too, is an approximately $750 million redevelopment of KU’s football stadium, as evidenced by the thickness of the legal documents governing the project. There’s a big — 262 pages — and important document up for ...