Town Talk with Chad Lawhorn for April 30, 2020

ang="en" xml:lang="en" xmlns=" xmlns:cctd="> [A downtown boutique is about to get four times larger, while pushing back against online shopping]( The downtown Lawrence boutique shop Striped Cow is getting much bigger. (Join the club. As the saying goes these days, I’ve social distanced from everything but the refrigerator door.) But owner David Jess is betting this is an expansion to ... [A downtown boutique is about to get four times larger, while pushing back against online shopping]( By: Chad Lawhorn The downtown Lawrence boutique shop Striped Cow is getting much bigger. (Join the club. As the saying goes these days, I’ve social distanced from everything but the refrigerator door.) But owner David Jess is betting this is an expansion to ... April 30, 2020 @ 11:49am [Lawrence firm giving away 500 face shields and seeking to prove you can still find PPE, if you know where to look]( By: Chad Lawhorn The items that Barb Gruber sells through her Lawrence-based promotional products business — key chains, T-shirts and other company giveaways — ordinarily won’t do much to improve a person’s health. But as Gruber and quite a few other ... April 29, 2020 @ 5:09pm [New numbers show who is dying of COVID-19 in Kansas; elderly are most likely to die, but middle-aged most likely to contract disease]( By: Chad Lawhorn We now have more detailed data on who is dying from COVID-19 in Kansas. As many suspected, the elderly are suffering the highest number of deaths, but that doesn’t mean you have to be old to get the virus. People between the ages of 35 and 44 ... April 28, 2020 @ 2:19pm [Sales tax numbers don't yet show the big drop to come; Kansans saw their earnings rise in 2019, but at below-average rate]( By: Chad Lawhorn We kind of are in a Road Runner cartoon moment. It is that point of the episode where Wile E. Coyote is running toward the cliff. We all know he is going to drop off the cliff, and, surely after all these episodes, he does, too. That’s where ... April 27, 2020 @ 2:32pm [Local unemployment now near 14%, but another COVID chart is encouraging for Douglas County]( By: Chad Lawhorn News and notes from around town, with a heavy dose of COVID-19 numbers, and information on a furlough policy that has some Hallmark employees upset. — The unemployment numbers are still grim for Douglas County, but now we have more ... April 24, 2020 @ 11:28am [Developers file new set of plans for south Lawrence shopping center, adding apartment complex to the mix]( By: Chad Lawhorn Someday, we will shop again, and developers are still hopeful that it will be at a new shopping center just south of the South Lawrence Trafficway and U.S. Highway 59 interchange. Another set of plans have been filed for the long-debated ... April 22, 2020 @ 12:21pm You are receiving this email because of your relationship with the Lawrence Journal-World or because at some point in the past you shared your email address with us. If you no longer want to receive emails from us, follow instructions at the link below. [Click here to unsubscribe and manage your email subscriptions.]( Lawrence Journal-World P.O Box 888, Lawrence, Kansas 66044