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Lawrence City Hall, 6 E. Sixth St., is pictured on May 3, 2016. Citing a need to keep up with infrastructure projects, Lawrence city leaders are moving forward with changes that would add another seven staff positions, bringing the total number of newly requested positions to more than 20. As part of its meeting Tuesday, the Lawrence City Commission voted unanimously to direct staff to include the new positions in the quarterly 2021 budget adjustment that is expected to come back to the commi...

Lawrence council defers vote on banning conversion therapy Charlie Keegan From a ban on conversion therapy to cities making it illegal to discriminate against someone based on their sexual orientation or gender identity, L.G.B.T.Q. advocates say the Kansas City area made progress in 2019. and last updated 2021-04-07 16:08:42-04 LAWRENCE, Kan. — The Lawrence City Commission decided Tuesday to defer voting on a proposal that would ban conversion therapy for minors, after a disagreement over ...

photo by: City of Lawrence Commissioner Jennifer Ananda, left, discusses a proposed ordinance to prohibit the practice of conversion therapy for minors with Assistant City Attorney Maria Garcia. After disagreement regarding how to handle counseling provided by members of religious organizations, city leaders have deferred their vote on an ordinance that would ban so-called conversion therapy that aims to change a person’s sexual orientation or gender identity. As part of its meeting Tuesday,...

Lawrence council defers vote on banning conversion therapy Follow Us Question of the Day By - Associated Press - Wednesday, April 7, 2021 LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) - The Lawrence City Commission decided Tuesday to defer voting on a proposal that would ban conversion therapy for minors, after a disagreement over how to address counseling by religious organizations. The ordinance would prohibit treating minors for conv...

photo by: City of Lawrence Commissioner Lisa Larsen, Mayor Brad Finkeldei and Vice Mayor Courtney Shipley discuss changes to meeting rules as part of the Lawrence City Commission meeting on March 9, 2021. The Lawrence City Commission has voted to amend rules governing its meetings in an effort to improve their efficiency and prevent them from running late into the night. As part of its meeting Tuesday, the commission voted 3-0, with commissioners Stuart Boley and Jennifer Ananda absent, to ...

J-W Editorial staff Lawrence Journal-World Editorial A majority of city commissioners are correct to walk slowly down this sidewalk. Three of five Lawrence city commissioners — Mayor Brad Finkeldei and Commissioners Stuart Boley and Lisa Larsen — all expressed reservations about an idea for the City of Lawrence to take over the financial responsibility of maintaining sidewalks in the city. As has been the state law for decades, property owners are responsible for the maintenance of public...

photo by: City of Lawrence A photo from the City of Lawrence website shows an example of a sidewalk in need of repair. Before Lawrence city leaders consider taking over certain sidewalk maintenance responsibilities, they have a couple of questions for city staff, including how the city might fund a maintenance program and what kinds of legal issues it might face if it tried to enact one. At its meeting Tuesday, the City Commission received a report about the potential costs of taking over sid...

Members of the Lawrence City Commission are pictured during their meeting Jan. 12, 2021. Lawrence city leaders on Tuesday strongly condemned the recent violence at the U.S. Capitol and the votes of Lawrence’s congressional delegation not to certify President-elect Joe Biden’s victory. At the Lawrence City Commission’s regular meeting, Commissioner Lisa Larsen expressed her anger about the storming of the Capitol last week by a pro-Donald Trump mob and the subsequent actions of some elec...

Days Inn, 730 Iowa St., is pictured Dec. 24, 2020. City leaders have voted to continue funding a cold-weather shelter for homeless people at a local hotel for now, but because of safety issues and the significant amount of program funds going to repair property damage, they are urging city staff to seek alternatives. Volunteers running the program and some social service professionals who are not involved with it expressed concerns regarding the security and efficiency of the program at the Ci...

A T rider boards a bus on Thursday, Aug. 17, 2017 at the downtown bus hub at Seventh and Vermont streets. It has been 20 years since Lawrence debuted its bus service, and with a new transit center and route redesign on the horizon, city leaders say decisions made in the next year will be pivotal for the service’s future. The city marked the transit system’s 20th anniversary this month, but the idea of a citywide bus system had been talked about long before the first buses went into service....