There was a time that Lawrence Memorial Hospital was among the most financially successful businesses in the city. The nonprofit hospital would frequently produce revenues over expenses — what we would call profit if the hospital were a traditional private company — of $10 million or more ...
The good news is that a lack of home football games for the University of Kansas hasn’t yet produced a major dent in Lawrence sales tax collections this year. The bad news (well, at least part of it) is that the City of Lawrence is still an underdog to meet its budget projections for sales ...
Get ready for the Whataburger line. The fast food chain has confirmed via press release that it will open its first Lawrence location at 11 a.m. on Monday, at 707 W. 23rd St. The Journal-World reported earlier this month that Monday was when the company hoped to open the restaurant, but ...
Sometimes a big bet involves pushing all your cash into the middle of the table. But here’s a twist: Sometimes it involves forsaking all cash. The Kansas Turnpike Authority has indeed done the latter. KTA has invested about $100 million in converting the state’s turnpike system into one ...
News and notes from around town: — Usually RVs and dump trucks don’t mingle, but they might for the next few years in far west Lawrence. Plans have been filed with the Lawrence-Douglas County planning office for a major construction landfill and borrow site for the South Lawrence ...
When it comes to maps and elections, I suspect most of you are just looking for one that shows the quickest path to the finish line. That’s not what I have today, but I do have another interesting map and numbers about whether Lawrence should change its form of city government to one that ...