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A group of Lawrence landlords have taken their argument against the city’s ordinance meant to ensure voucher recipients can find housing to a higher court.
Navigators help people enroll in Medicaid and insurance on the federal marketplace. Federal funding cuts by the Trump administration mean Kansas will have fewer navigators.
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As the founder of Wadulisi’s Indigenous Foods, Haskell alum Melissa Garrett is preserving Native culture through food, education and storytelling.
Top suggestions to Kansas’ Committee on Government Efficiency included maintaining abortion rights, leaving vouchers out of school funding, expanding Medicaid, focusing on substantial policy issues instead of laws targeting trans kids, and legalizing marijuana.
Lawmakers promised major property tax cuts this year, but they’re running out of time. The Kansas House and Senate are at odds on how to do it.
The City of Lawrence will not take requests for new crossing guard locations during the 2025-26 school year as working group members continue to evaluate 2024-25 requests.
Known variously as dogtooth violet and trout/fawn lily, Erythronium albidum is beginning to bloom in native woodland soils, with the flower/bud pointed toward the ground for protection from the spring showers.
Lawrence nonprofit 100 Good Women will soon host its annual clothing exchange. The public is invited to donate gently used, clean clothing, shoes and jewelry, which are then put back on sale for $1 each.
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Haskell Indian Nations University celebrated the campus community’s resilience with their spring powwow Saturday night.
The upcoming Rural Living Resource Fair will seek to connect community members with experts and resources designed for rural living in Douglas County, including a range of local vendors.
