r/Lawrence

There’s nothing like fried beef and cream gravy on a 90 degree day. Where’s the beef?

Has anyone else found significantly more ticks around? My dog has flea and tick prevention, I have a pet and home spray, I have been doing nearly everything I can but am still finding several ticks around. Thankfully the preventative measures are doing the job of keeping ticks from latching on my dog, but it's getting increasingly frustrating finding them crawing on myself or on the couch. I feel like I need to drench the whole apartment in the home spray. Obviously that's not possible, so any other advice would be greatly appreciated.

Anyone happen to know the hours of La Estrella's market below the restaurant? Are they the same as above or do they (hopefully) open a little earlier?

Your patriotism is no match for your insensitivity, negligence, and general dumbfuckiness. I swear next year I want to rig up a truck with a huge water tank and a high-pressure sprayer, and drive around to give douchenozzles like this the treatment they deserve.

The ACLU has laid out a detailed case that Flock Safety, one of the country’s most widely used automatic license plate reader companies, has a documented pattern of misleading the very governments and communities it sells surveillance technology to. The clearest example happened in Oshkosh, Wisconsin in April 2026, when a city council member directly asked Flock’s chief information security officer whether the company’s system could create a heat map tracking where a vehicle had driven over time. Flock’s representative said no, the council approved the contract that same night, and by the next morning the city learned the statement was false, since Flock later admitted its system does generate exactly that kind of tracking heat map for up to a full month of vehicle movement.

The fallout was immediate and unusually swift. Oshkosh’s city council reconvened within 24 hours and unanimously voted to revoke the contract it had just approved, with Deputy Mayor Joe Stephenson saying he did not know how the council could govern if Flock told “untruths, mistruths, exaggerated truths,” and Mayor Matt Mugerauer bluntly stating he did not want to work with a company that gives bad information. Flock’s response was to call its false statement “one small misconception” and “a minor nuance,” while complaining it had not been given a chance to explain itself, a response the ACLU says reflects a broader corporate habit of treating factual misrepresentations as public relations problems rather than serious credibility failures.

According to the ACLU, Oshkosh was far from an isolated case. In Colorado, Flock’s CEO publicly denied the company had any federal contracts after a police chief raised concerns about federal access to local license data, only for Flock to later admit it did have pilot agreements with Customs and Border Protection and Homeland Security. The company also published a blog titled “Does Flock Share Data With ICE? No,” despite knowing ICE could access its data indirectly through local police partners, and after reports surfaced that Texas law enforcement used Flock data to track someone who sought an abortion in Illinois, the company rolled out a new oversight tool it claimed would significantly reduce misuse, a claim an ACLU of Massachusetts investigation found could be defeated by officers simply typing vague words like “investigation” or even nonsense like “hehehe” into a required search field. The ACLU says Flock has even falsely claimed to have partnered with the ACLU itself on ALPR legislation in New Mexico and system design in Illinois, claims the organization flatly denies ever happening.

Anyone have recommendations for a good selection of fashion magazines in town?

I just saw toms dogs is doin the annual hot dog eatin contest at the replay tonight at 6. feels like the perfect sunday afternoon vibe. anyone else plannin on catchin the chaos or tryin to enter?? tryin to see if the patio is gonna be packed?

Looking for a couple of recommendations for tree/stump removal and my yard will need to be torn up, rocks etc removed and re-sodded. I have a new construction build which is why I am looking for companies. Thanks for any advice you can provide.

Small grey dog with black spots. Long ears. BLUE collar. Beagle sized. Spotted at 7:15pm heading from Wakarusa/6th North towards/past Orange Theory. Husband tried to catch him but he bolted across 6th! Poor baby!

I work at atlas9 and wanted to use a school bus for a school related short video we’re making.

“CALL THE SCHOOLS AND ASK” Yes I know, I know fair enough.

but I wanted to see if anyone here might have one. I’m also looking for a somewhat less modern looking bus, and I don’t think any schools around here have older ones anymore.

Unless one of you directly works at a school, I’m not interested in contacting a school until all my avenues are spent.

Just a classic American school bus. It’d be for like half a day of shooting and we’d be inside the bus the whole time, it won’t even move. The bus ain’t even gotta work!

Thank you!

Drop your recommendations for best salads in town. I love Caesar salads with chicken as well as vinaigrettes with other toppings but I’m wanting some recs!

The last time the US hosted the World Cup was 32 years ago, so it might be a long time before the Algerian national team returns to Lawrence but it was fun hosting them.

Hi everybody! Just wanted to post that me and my partner saw a black dog running along Clinton Parkway towards where you hit the E900 at Clinton Lake.

It had a full red harness and leash on, as it was running. We tried to get it to come with us but it ran off and disappeared out of sight.

Hello everyone! My birthday is in August (turning 22) and I was wanting to take a roadtrip with 5-6 other friends somewhere that isn’t over 4-5 hours away. I’m wanting to go somewhere that has great day time activities and also a good nightlife scene. I obviously know places like Branson and Lake of the Ozarks exist but not too familiar with anything past SDC and bars on the lake. Any suggestions are helpful! Thank you!!

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Thank you everyone for your amazing suggestions! Another reason I love our community!😁

I'm looking for some advice, I am moving out of the country in two weeks and I cannot bring my cat with me, unfortunately. I've reached out to all of my local social networks with no lick. Does anyone have suggestions for finding him a home? Indoor cat, neutered male,10 years old, healthy, social and loving. I'm running out of time and options.

Any help or advice appreciated for finding a home or a foster home for him.

If anyone knows of any coffee places or cute date locations that are for sure open tomorrow that would be great!

Was hoping to meet up with a friend but of course it's a holiday and we both have nothing going on.

Thanks!

Pretty cool that we got an article from a major news outlet about this town!