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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 sidewalks that run through their private property. Over the past several years, city commissioners ...

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 sidewalk maintenance after property owners had repaired the sidewalks to a certain level. Commissioners...

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 elected officials. Larsen said the insurrection at the Capitol must be answered with the fullest weight ...

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 City Commission’s meeting Tuesday night. Commissioners said they shared those concerns. They voted 4...

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. By the time the City Commission approved spending property tax revenues for the service in 1999, wh...