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Another Haskell University administrator leaves post in latest turnover
One of the top administrators at Haskell Indian Nations University has announced her retirement, retroactive to May 28, just a month after faculty members issued a unanimous vote of no confidence in her job performance.
Noah Taborda/Kansas Reflector
Mark McCormick: What the Kansas attorney general needs to know about critical race theory (Column)
The Kansas Reflector welcomes opinion pieces from writers who share our goal of widening the […]
The Raven Book Store’s bestsellers for the week of June 8, 2021 (Sponsored post)
This week’s bestseller list has plenty of new faces, like Casey McQuiston’s eagerly awaited followup to Red White & Royal Blue and Clint Smith’s amazing new history of slavery. By far the fastest seller of the week is the new children’s book from U.S. Rep. Sharice Davids.
City Commission agenda
City of Lawrence would pay Catholic Charities $250 per approved application to utility assistance fund under proposed contract
The Lawrence City Commission on Tuesday will consider a contract that would pay Catholic Charities of Northeast Kansas $250 for each application approved for a utility assistance program. That’s roughly equivalent to two or three months’ worth of the average residence’s city utility bills.
Drone Lawrence/dronelawrence.com
Douglas County election operations moving from courthouse this summer
Douglas County’s elections will soon be run from the corner of 23rd and Louisiana Streets — in a location double the size of its current location on the first floor of the county courthouse.
August Rudisell/@KsScanner
Overnight fire damages garage, car at an East Lawrence home; no injuries
A detached garage caught fire overnight at an East Lawrence home, and the cause is still under investigation.
Traffic planning: Construction starting this week on Kentucky, Louisiana streets
Two construction projects starting this week will impact traffic in Lawrence.
Conner Mitchell/The Lawrence Times
Community event to memorialize 3 Black men lynched in 1882
After 139 years to the day, community members will memorialize the deaths of three Black men who were lynched in 1882.
August Rudisell / Lawrence Times
Kansas and Missouri utilities may use loophole to charge customers for fossil fuel lobbying
Kansas and Missouri residents’ utility bills may be helping to bankroll energy sector lobbying against policies aimed at lowering greenhouse gas emissions.
Ken Lassman
Kaw Valley Almanac for June 7 – 13, 2021
Mulberries are ripe, elderberries and blackberries are blooming and wild raspberries are forming. But don’t forget about ticks and chiggers if you are out picking berries!
Contributed
Pinckney Neighborhood residents voting between 4 finalists for new name
About a year since talks began to change the name of a neighborhood in Lawrence, its residents are voting between four finalists.
Sherman Smith/Kansas Reflector
With Kansas eviction moratorium lifted, advocates prepare for surge in homelessness
Homeless shelters in Kansas metro areas are already seeing more requests for housing in the days after legislative leaders lifted a statewide ban on evictions.
Olivia Schwyhart/@andromeda.beans on Instagram
Andromeda’s kittens: At 9 weeks, babies and mama heading to new homes
We’ve watched them grow from tiny floofs who barely opened their eyes into active, playful kittens. Now, Andromeda and her babies are on their way to new homes and new lives.
Ask Cody: What’s the first album you ever owned? (Column)
This week, Cody reflects on radio requests, their crushes on “90210,” and the songs they sang flamboyantly in their youth.
Contributed
Bishop Seabury students find passion in helping others, raise $3K for refugees
A group of sixth-graders at a Lawrence private school has collected money to help people fleeing war and violence across the world.
Final candidate for KU police chief: ‘It is about doing the work’
The final candidate for chief of the University of Kansas Public Safety Office said Friday […]
August Rudisell/The Lawrence Times
After state lawmaker asks questions, KU says only 1 class teaches Critical Race Theory
Only one course at the University of Kansas describes its curriculum as guided by Critical […]
Sherman Smith/Kansas Reflector
Panel urges disbarment of Kansas attorney for deliberate misconduct in two high-profile trials
A three-attorney panel unanimously recommended the Kansas Supreme Court disbar a Kansas attorney for knowingly making false statements to juries during two high-profile trials and for offering dishonest claims about her prosecutorial misconduct directly to justices of the state’s highest court.
GoFundMe
Family dog dies in early morning fire in North Lawrence; 1 adult and 2 kids displaced
One adult and two children have been displaced after a fire early Friday in the 400 block of Pleasant Street, according to Lawrence-Douglas County Fire Medical. The family dog did not survive.
Kansas racial justice panel turns focus to equitable distribution of federal aid
As Kansas is set to receive about $1.6 billion in discretionary pandemic relief aid from the federal government, a state equity panel wants to ensure minority and at-risk communities have a seat at the table when deciding how to dole those funds out.
Federal lawsuit challenges Kansas’ new advance mail balloting process
A pair of nonprofit organizations working to encourage voting by mail Wednesday filed a lawsuit to block enforcement of a new Kansas law banning out-of-state entities from sending advance mail ballot applications to voters in the state.
Sherman Smith/Kansas Reflector
‘This is a tragedy’: Lawmakers want accountability after death of Kansas foster child
Lawmakers say the death of an autistic boy in state custody demonstrates the need for more accountability within the Kansas foster care system.
Jeff Burkhead/Backstory Photography
Lawrence PRIDE to make big return with parade, party
With the return of Lawrence PRIDE, MsAmanda Love is excited to feel the love of the community that followed the parade down Massachusetts Street each year, prior to the pandemic.
KU police chief candidate: ‘There is a time and need for reform, and that’s right now’
The second of three candidates to become the next chief of the University of Kansas Public Safety Office on Thursday made clear that he and many other police chiefs across the country recognize a need for police reform.
