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Oct 19, 2024 | 
lawrencekstimes.com | Conner Mitchell
Share this post or save for laterAs Kansas Athletics continues to renovate the KU football stadium, playing remaining home games at Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City for the rest of the season will come with a steep price tag. KU is paying a $125,000 rental fee, on top of a “game and resodding expenses” fee that ranges from $485,000 to $720,000 “depending on attendance levels” for each game played at Arrowhead, according to the signed contract.
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Apr 18, 2024 | 
lawrencekstimes.com | Conner Mitchell
Share this post or save for laterNearly four years after the conversation began to memorialize two teenagers killed by Lawrence police over a span of four days in 1970, the city’s Historic Resources Commission on Thursday deferred a decision on the design and language of markers that would be placed near the scenes of the respective killings.
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Mar 31, 2024 | 
lawrencekstimes.com | Conner Mitchell
Share this post or save for laterKansas Athletics will pay a rental fee of $100,000 for each of the two football games it plans on hosting at Sporting Kansas City’s Children’s Mercy Park during the upcoming season.
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Feb 28, 2024 | 
lawrencekstimes.com | Conner Mitchell
Share this post or save for laterMarkers remembering two teenagers killed by Lawrence police over a few days in the summer of 1970 could finally see their way back onto the agenda of the city’s Historic Resources Commission in the coming months.
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Jan 30, 2024 | 
lawrencekstimes.com | Conner Mitchell
Share this post or save for laterThe University of Kansas football team will play its six home games next season in Kansas City because of ongoing construction at David Booth Kansas Memorial Stadium, the university announced Tuesday. The first two games of the season will take place at Children’s Mercy Park, home of the Sporting KC soccer team, and the final four games will be played at Arrowhead Stadium.
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Nov 8, 2023 | 
lawrencekstimes.com | Conner Mitchell
Share this post or save for laterPost updated at 4 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 9: Mike Rogers, recently appointed as chief financial officer of Lawrence Memorial Hospital, was terminated after only a month on the job after hospital officials discovered he was a convicted felon who changed his name a year ago. In addition, the vice president of human resources at LMH was terminated on Oct. 27, the same day staff discovered Rogers had changed his name.
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Oct 13, 2023 | 
ballsandstrikes.org | Jay Willis |Madiba Dennie |Conner Mitchell
In a two-sentence order issued on Tuesday, the U.S. Supreme Court greenlit Texas’s efforts to execute Jedidiah Murphy, over the objections of Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, and Ketanji Brown Jackson. Several hours later, as the annual observance of World Day Against the Death Penalty came to a close, officials at the state penitentiary in Huntsville killed Murphy by lethal injection.
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Oct 12, 2023 | 
ballsandstrikes.org | Madiba Dennie |Conner Mitchell |Jay Willis
Ignore the bad and focus on the good is decent advice for a lot of things in life, like modest progress on New Year’s Resolutions or kids who are mostly potty-trained. Evaluating the most powerful legal decision-making body in the country, however, is not one of those things. Yet a recent New York Times op-ed entitled “The Supreme Court Is Not as Politicized as You May Think” makes precisely this mistake.
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Oct 11, 2023 | 
ballsandstrikes.org | Madiba Dennie |Jay Willis |Elie Mystal |Conner Mitchell
After the most recent census, South Carolina Republicans worked so hard to reduce Black electoral power while redrawing the state’s congressional maps that a lower court described them as “effectively bleaching” a key congressional district. Today, the Supreme Court heard oral argument in Alexander v. South Carolina State Conference of the NAACP to determine if this electoral Clorox poses any constitutional problem.
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Oct 10, 2023 | 
ballsandstrikes.org | Conner Mitchell |Madiba Dennie |Jay Willis
Over the past decade, the Court has considerably scrambled the law of gerrymandering, but broadly speaking, there are three ways a gerrymandering case can come down. Gerrymandering based on race is almost always illegal, whether under the Voting Rights Act or the Fourteenth Amendment. But gerrymandering based on political party, the Court decided in 2019’s Rucho v. Common Cause, is too hard for them to police, so they just don’t.
