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Listening session on Douglas County’s mobile response for behavioral health crises set for Tuesday
A Douglas County team wants to find out from community members about their experiences, direct or indirect, with mobile responses for people experiencing mental illness and addiction.
Noah Taborda/Kansas Reflector; file
Democratic Kansas governor vetoes GOP-inspired voting, firearm and license plate bills
Gov. Laura Kelly vetoed two bundles of election reform measures Friday that would have restricted advance voting, eliminated emergency powers to alter voting procedures, added a new crime for turning in others’ ballots, and strengthened penalties for existing election crimes.
Tim Carpenter/Kansas Reflector
Gov. Kelly signs legislation creating workforce development scholarship program
Gov. Laura Kelly signed bipartisan legislation Friday authorizing a scholarship program aimed primarily at encouraging Kansas community college and technical college students to develop skills in high-demand areas of the state’s economy.
Advocacy groups push for transparency in Evergy’s $8.9 billion ‘sustainability’ plan
Environmental and consumer groups are raising alarms about what they claim is limited transparency as Kansas regulators review Evergy’s plan to spend more than $8.9 billion on the utility provider’s infrastructure across the state.
Lawrence 2nd-graders share feelings about pandemic through portraits
The Lawrence Times asked art teachers in the Lawrence school district to share some of their students’ work reflecting on the pandemic. In this gallery, second-graders show off their skills in portrait-making.
Introducing Ask Cody, with Cody Charles (Column)
You have an opportunity to ask Cody interesting, weird and dynamic questions.
Raven to host sidewalk sale for Independent Bookstore Day
It’s the biggest bookstore party of the year, the Raven says of Saturday’s Independent Bookstore Day celebration.
Michaela Cantrell
Just Food helping those in need with period products, diapers
Not everybody would get excited enough to jump up on top of a pallet of […]
Sherman Smith/Kansas Reflector
Kansas governor blocks attack on transgender athletes, civics test for high schoolers, NRA curriculum
Gov. Laura Kelly on Thursday vetoed a series of controversial bills that would have banned transgender athletes from school sports, required high schoolers to pass a civics test before graduation, and installed NRA-sponsored curriculum in public schools.
Sherman Smith/Kansas Reflector
After George Floyd’s murder, a racial equity panel proposed changes; the Kansas Legislature ignored them
The Commission on Racial Equity and Justice issued more than 30 suggestions in its December report for state legislators to consider, but none has received meaningful consideration.
August Rudisell / Lawrence Times
For Earth Day, a walk through Lawrence’s water treatment facilities
The city’s two water treatment facilities receive, process, and release on average 10 million gallons of storm and sewer water every day.
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Lawrence Community Police Review Board April 22 meeting preview
The Lawrence Community Police Review Board will meet Thursday evening to review responses to a community survey about a proposed ordinance that would broaden the board’s abilities.
Panel Thursday to focus on stress, mental health for BIPOC during COVID
A virtual panel Thursday evening will discuss mental health, weathering and economic strain of the COVID-19 pandemic for BIPOC individuals.
David Condos/Kansas News Service
Half of Kansas counties turn down COVID vaccines even though they’re far from herd immunity
Sixty-two Kansas counties rejected their weekly allocations of COVID-19 vaccines from the state this week, even though only roughly 34% of Kansans have received at least one shot.
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Immigrant suffering from mental illness deported after 6-month breakdown in Kansas jail
A mentally ill man who spent six months in a Kansas jail after being pulled over for speeding in Texas and arrested on a decade-old dropped charge has been deported to Mexico.
Will Averill: Kansas lawmakers must carefully begin addressing the coercion in domestic violence (Column)
“Coercive control is an integral part of the larger pattern of domestic violence” and addressing it is essential, Will Averill writes.
C. J. Janovy: Watch out, Kansas — your hard-hitting high school journalists are national leaders (Column)
At Shawnee Mission East High School in Prairie Village, 41% of the students are afraid […]
August Rudisell/@KsScanner
Douglas County Sheriff’s Office won’t release name of woman killed in crash
Updated at 2:04 p.m. Wednesday, April 21: The Douglas County Sheriff’s Office is not planning […]
Contributed/Angela Hyde
Changes coming soon to Lawrence Public Library Friends & Foundation book sales
Area residents will soon have more options to shop for cheap-but-quality books through the sales […]
Lawrence City Commission recap for April 20, 2021
The Lawrence City Commission met virtually Tuesday evening. • The commission approved an ordinance that […]
Mackenzie Clark
Rontarus Washington Jr. to be represented by Innocence Project, attorney tells judge
Rontarus Washington Jr.’s longtime defense counsel has withdrawn from the case, but it seems they’ll be replaced by the Midwest Innocence Project plus one of the two attorneys who recently argued — successfully — that Albert Wilson should get a new trial.
Here are the Earth Day events in and around Lawrence this week
Since April 22, 1970, the world has celebrated Earth Day as an annual reminder of […]
Kelly Thompson
Free State juniors take debate program to new competitive heights, break records
Serena Rupp and John Marshall were the first Lawrence school district team to ever qualify for the Tournament of Champions, according to their debate coach.
Amber Brown
Lawrence ghost kitchen soon to add food truck to pay it forward, help entrepreneurs
A ghost kitchen in eastern Lawrence is getting into the food truck game, and its […]
