Monday's canvass of the 2019 general election results confirmed the winners for the Lawrence City Commission and Lawrence school board races. The Douglas County Clerk’s Office released the official results of the Nov. 5 election after the County Commission certified the results. The ...
Previously, one of the few things I knew about sidewalks was: If you wait long enough, the snow will melt. Now, I know another thing: All that rage people had over the city making property owners pay to fix city sidewalks in front of their homes didn’t carry much weight at the ballot box. ...
Topeka — Kansas voters were on track Tuesday night to end the state’s unusual policy of using its own numbers in addition to federal census data to redraw boundaries of state legislative districts. Although not all of Kansas’ counties had reported to the Kansas secretary of state’s ...
Two newcomers led the pack in the Lawrence City Commission race and will join incumbent Stuart Boley on the city’s governing body. Attorney and nonprofit board member Brad Finkeldei finished first in Tuesday’s general election. Fellow newcomer Courtney Shipley and Boley, the only ...
Austin H. Turney, a former Lawrence school board member, history buff and owner of a historic East Lawrence home, has died at age 93. Turney died July 13. He was a member of the school board from 1997 to 2005. Born in Lawrence in 1929, he graduated from University High School, a former school ...
Topeka — Kansas Republican Sen. Roger Marshall opposes an impeachment trial for President Donald Trump after Trump leaves office, arguing Tuesday that it would “raise already heated temperatures” and further divide the nation. Marshall said in a statement that he would attend ...
Douglas County officials who won elections in November were sworn into office Monday at the county courthouse. Douglas County Commissioners Shannon Reid and Shannon Portillo, District Attorney Suzanne Valdez, Sheriff Jay Armbrister and Register of Deeds Kent Brown were among the newly elected ...
Topeka — Four Kansas Republicans who will be members of the new Congress plan to join objections to Electoral College certification Wednesday in an effort to bolster President Donald Trump’s allegations that election fraud contributed to President-elect Joe Biden’s victory in ...
