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Kansas housing crisis squashing opportunity for lower-income homebuyers
A virtual forum on housing issues in Douglas and Shawnee counties is set for May 19.
Drone Lawrence/dronelawrence.com
KU football hires Buffalo coach Lance Leipold as program’s 40th coach
The University of Kansas has the next leader of its embattled football program. Weeks after […]
Tim Carpenter/Kansas Reflector
Kobach campaign for attorney general triggers rebuke from Kansas Chamber
Former Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach launched a campaign Thursday for the Republican nomination for attorney general and came under fire from the state’s most influential business lobbying organization that declared a Kobach candidacy carried too much risk for Kansans.
Audrey Basham
From chaos to creativity: Lawrence High artists capture pandemic emotions in photos
Lawrence High School students share photos and writings from their portfolio class during the COVID-19 pandemic.
August Rudisell/The Lawrence Times
Photos: Crews assess how to return Kaw Nation’s prayer rock
Crews were at work Thursday morning in Lawrence to determine how exactly to move a massive boulder in order to return it to its rightful owners.
Lawrence Humane Society
Paw Valley Challenge kicks off Saturday; you can be on Sugar the Community Resource Cat’s team
The Lawrence Humane Society’s Paw Valley Challenge begins Saturday. No team? No problem — all are welcome on Sugar’s team.
It’s Cody! Meet Lawrence Times columnist Cody Charles
“I’ve chosen to spend my energy protecting, advocating for, loving on, breathing life into and creating possibility for quite frankly the most brilliant, the bravest, the baddest Blackest queerest people on earth,” Cody Charles writes.
Sophie Tate
Photos: Parts of Lawrence flooded after downpour
It rained in Lawrence Wednesday — and then it rained some more. Really quickly. Suddenly […]
Lawrence, Douglas County have opportunity for millions in funding to help end homelessness
Lawrence has a “once-in-a-lifetime” opportunity for funding to combat homelessness and houselessness, according to a state official.
Lisa Coble
KU Theatre & Dance to premiere ‘Changemakers’ for season finale performance
The KU Department of Theatre & Dance this week will hold a run of its season finale, “Changemakers,” based on stories of community leaders, activists and frontline workers and reflecting social justice movements.
Sydney Studer: Diary of a COVID long-hauler, Chapter 4 (Column)
Note: The Lawrence Times is running this series written by a community member who caught […]
Sherman Smith/Kansas Reflector
Animal facility inspection budget amendment sparks criticism from Republican lawmakers over proper vetting
House and Senate panels rejected an amendment Tuesday to the Governor’s proposed budget for 2022 reinforcing an animal facility inspection program with improved funding and staffing opportunities due to a lack of committee review.
Kansas GOP senators firmly denounce proposed 2.5% pay raise for state employees
Republicans on the Kansas Senate’s budget committee attacked Gov. Laura Kelly’s plan to allocate $52 million to raises of 2.5% for state executive, legislative and judicial branch workers and to appropriate $10 million to state universities that could be used to bolster employee compensation.
Lauren Bishop/CDC
No mask needed outdoors if you’re vaccinated, except among crowds, CDC says
Those who are at least two weeks past receiving their final dose of a COVID-19 vaccine can safely be unmasked at small outdoor gatherings and while dining outdoors with friends from multiple households, according to the new guidance.
Hit the trails: Van Go planning May Day Hey Day
Van Go invites you to walk, ride, roll or run the Lawrence Loop at your own pace in their May Day Hey Day fundraiser on Saturday.
Schmidt joins Republican AGs taking aim at ‘social cost of carbon’ emissions
The attorneys general in Missouri and Kansas have joined their Republican counterparts in 20 states demanding that the federal government not consider the social cost of carbon emissions when determining whether to approve new natural gas pipelines.
KDADS
Virtual summit to address homelessness in Lawrence and Douglas County
A summit to be held virtually Wednesday and Thursday, with the theme of “Challenge Meets […]
Tim Carpenter/Kansas Reflector
Judicial salary upgrade, replacement of fee revenue hang in legislative balance
Updated data shows that depending on job classification, Kansas judicial branch employees needed increases up to 18.9% to bring salaries to market level, Chief Justice Marla Luckert said.
Justice Matters: Justice means leaving the status quo behind (Column)
Every spring the people of Justice Matters raise our collective voice in an effort to […]
Recap: Lawrence school board meeting, April 26
The Lawrence school board approved an agreement with Baker University, gave initial approval to an equity policy and more Monday.
August Rudisell/The Lawrence Times
Lawrence police release name of woman struck by vehicle, killed Friday night
Lawrence police on Monday released the name of the woman hit by a vehicle Friday night at 19th Street and Naismith Drive.
Sherman Smith/Kansas Reflector
Kelly signs into law sweeping reform of Kansas unemployment system
Gov. Laura Kelly signed into law Monday legislation affirming a commitment to modernize the Kansas Department of Labor’s computer network relied upon to handle jobless claims and to guarantee employers weren’t liable for fraudulent unemployment filings during the pandemic.
Neal Long/@MusicKU
KU School of Music to perform 2 modern operas examining sexual assault, transgender identity
A University of Kansas School of Music graduate will see part of her dissertation project come to life on Tuesday as part of a virtual double-bill feature through the Lied Center of Kansas.
Sherman Smith/Kansas Reflector
Kansas House, Senate prayers point to ‘precarious times for truth, justice, equity’
A review of the 2021 Legislature’s collection of opening prayers revealed how the Rev. Cecil Washington urged the Senate and the Rev. Eunice Brubaker offered the House seasoned spiritual advice for politicians at risk of losing sight of God’s message as they battled ideological foes real or imagined.
