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A crowd filled Lawrence City Hall Tuesday to watch a historically diverse City Commission take their seats at the dais and elect the city’s new mayor. Tuesd

Though incumbent City Commissioner Lisa Larsen continues to prove herself a voter favorite, the next term will also see some new faces joining her at City Hall.

With 100% of precincts reporting in Douglas County, it appeared — unofficially — Tuesday that two incumbents on the Lawrence City Commission and the Lawrenc

City Commissioner Stuart Boley is seeking reelection to the City Commission this Tuesday, and is hoping to further improve how the city handles its finances and other services provided by

Lawrence City Hall, 6 E. Sixth St., is pictured on May 3, 2016. In their first discussion of the city’s 2022 budget, city leaders said they would like to keep the property tax rate flat and were interested in ways to mitigate the city’s rising utility rates. As part of its study session Tuesday, the Lawrence City Commission discussed 2021 revenue projections and directed staff regarding key policy questions that will affect the 2022 budget. Commissioners agreed that they did not want to i...

Where today there are parking lots and empty buildings, the draft of Lawrences downtown plan sees the future. In the recently released

Lawrence City Commissioner Stuart Boley is pictured Thursday, Dec. 28, 2017 outside City Hall in downtown Lawrence. Commissioner Stuart Boley has filed for reelection to the Lawrence City Commission. Boley, who is a retired auditor with the Internal Revenue Service, was elected to the commission in 2015 and served as mayor in 2018. Regarding why he wants to continue his service on the commission, Boley said that with the commission’s new strategic plan and priority based budgeting process, h...

Jennifer Ananda stands in front of City Hall on Nov. 27, 2019. Lawrence City Commissioner Jennifer Ananda announced Thursday that she planned to begin a Ph.D. program and would not be running for reelection. Ananda began her term on the commission in 2018, was part of the commission’s first female majority and served as mayor last year. Ananda told the Journal-World that a lot of work remained before the end of her term in December but that she wanted to let the public know that she would n...

photo by: Contributed Enough trash to fill five Olympic-sized swimming pools was uncovered at the construction site for the U.S. Engineering Metalworks plant at VenturePark. City leaders have increased the economic incentives for a new manufacturing plant by about $700,000 to help cover the cleanup of massive amounts of buried trash discovered on the construction site, which is within the city’s business park. As part of its meeting Tuesday, the Lawrence City Commission voted unanimously to a...

Ma’Ko’Quah Jones Sustainability Advisory Board chair and community organizer Ma’Ko’Quah Jones has filed for election to the Lawrence City Commission. Jones, who has degrees in government, Native American studies and environmental law, said working in government has always been one of her goals. In addition to her role on the SAB, Jones is the founder and chair of the Kansas Democratic Party Native American Caucus, a coordinator with the League of Women Voters of Kansas, and a Kan...