Laureate Institute Thinks Ahead on PTSD
More and more veterans are returning home from long years of combat in Iraq and Afghanistan. Many are able to reacclimate to their civilian lives with little trouble. Many others, however, struggle....
View ArticleTPS Pushes For Bond Issue Approval
Tulsa Public Schools and its allies are advocating a vote of yes on an upcoming bond issue. The initiative is worth $38 million, and would go to technology and safety concerns. Specifically, TPS would...
View ArticleOil Tax, Natural Gas Tax Reduction Among New Policy Proposals
Five policy changes would be simple and feasible ways to reduce emissions and dependence on foreign oil. That’s according to a proposal by the National Energy Policy Institute at the University of...
View ArticleWoody Guthrie Center Opens
Woody Guthrie’s daughter Nora visits the soon-to-open Woody Guthrie Center in Tulsa’s Brady District. She says she hopes her father’s legacy will speak not just to musicians. “I’m just hoping that this...
View ArticleBarnard Site Will Not Be Sold for Rehab Facility
The site of the former Tulsa School of Arts and Sciences and Barnard Elementary will not be sold to a nursing home and rehab facility. Tulsa Public Schools’ Chris Payne says that’s after some emphatic...
View ArticleHealth Department Absorbs Costs of Harrington Investigation
Each free screening for former patients of Scott Harrington costs about $195, according to the Tulsa Health Department’s Kaitlin Snider. She says the expense isn’t causing problems for the Health...
View ArticleParents, Teens Will Receive Guidance on How to Have 'The Talk'
To recognize National Day to Prevent Teen Pregnancy, the Tulsa Health Department will host a free workshop: Dress for the Occasion. It’s for both teens and parents, and the goal is to facilitate...
View ArticleNew Music Festival Planned For Brady District
Planners hope success in the Brady Arts District will continue this summer with the new Center of the Universe Festival, happening July 19th and 20th. The festival will feature around 70 bands at...
View ArticleImmigration, Deficit Among Topics at Bridenstine Town Hall
First District Congressman Jim Bridenstine is in town this week. In a town hall, he leaves constituents with no doubt about where he stands on an impending debt ceiling battle. “I am not against...
View ArticleTU Students Turn Senior Projects into Community Service
University of Tulsa engineering students present two new projects to the Little Lighthouse. One is a slide made out of conveyor rollers that can be converted into a table and a seesaw. It’s called the...
View ArticleFood Bank Gets Help From Letter Carriers During Drive
Letter carriers across the country work to “Stamp Out Hunger.” You can leave nonperishable food for your letter carrier on Saturday—in Tulsa the food drive will benefit the Community Food Bank of...
View ArticleNorth Tulsa Opportunites in the Spotlight
Tulsa’s Young Professionals Urbanist Crew will host its annual event—Street CReD—this Saturday. It’s designed to highlight business and development opportunities in overlooked areas of town. The first...
View ArticleNorth Tulsa Corner Comes Alive at Street CReD
A shopping and entertainment district popped up for a day on the corner of 36th Street North and North Peoria Saturday. Tulsa’s Young Professionals hosted Street CReD to highlight business and...
View ArticleCompleted 'Shoppes On Peoria' Provide Expanded Shopping, Food Options to...
A project long in the making comes into being. The Shoppes on Peoria, north of the Gateway Market at Pine and North Peoria, will have a grand opening Saturday. Six businesses have opened there this...
View ArticleBill LaFortune, Bob Dick Recognized for BOK Center
The City rededicates the BOK Center for its fifth anniversary. Mayor Bartlett recognized former mayor Bill LaFortune and former County Commissioner Bob Dick for their work on developing Vision 2025, of...
View ArticleTulsa International Airport Tests Tornado Readiness
It’s a fictional scenario—a tornado in South Tulsa yesterday, and one that hits the airport today—but it’s the situation that airport and community disaster responders dealt with today as part of a...
View ArticleRed Cross Inundated With Donations
Eighteen million dollars—that’s the figure that’s been donated to the Red Cross so far for the Oklahoma tornado disasters in Moore and Shawnee. “In this disaster, I think because of the scope of it,...
View ArticleYoung Professionals Meet Up in Tulsa
Networking, media and government relations are some of the topics of conversations at a conference for Oklahoma’s young professionals. One attendee, Amber Neville, works for Miratech Corporation....
View ArticleEastern Oklahoma Girl Scouts Chapter Spends 10 Years Reuniting Children,...
A Girl Scouts program that serves kids with incarcerated parents celebrates 10 years. Girl Scouts Beyond Bars seeks to remedy the fact that 55 percent of Oklahoma children with an incarcerated mother...
View ArticleSequestration Reduces Arts Funding in Oklahoma
Arts and cultural programs in Oklahoma may have a harder time securing funding from the state in the coming fiscal year 2014. That’s because sequester cuts have reduced the National Endowment for the...
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