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 ...
Here’s a fun Lawrence fact for you: Ninth Street doesn’t exist west of Kasold Drive. Granted, it is not an overly fun fact, and if you miss a curve on the western portions of Ninth Street and you and your vehicle end up in someone’s front yard — where Ninth Street should be — it is ...
News and notes from around town: It is not quite yet Whataburger, but it is Whatasmell. Residents who have been going to the Douglas County Elections Office near 23rd and Louisiana streets for advance voting have been picking up an unmistakable scent from the office’s neighbor — the ...
Popular Kansas City barbecue restaurant Q39 is still on track to open in downtown Lawrence, a representative of the project has told me. A bigger project that would develop next door in the former printing plant of the Journal-World, however, is now less certain to happen. First, let’s ...