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Their reasons for choosing a legal career varied from enhancing teaching and community service skills to winning a family argument. Regardless of why, 146 first-year students eagerly started coursework Aug. 23 at the University of Tulsa College of Law. Before the start of the school year, they participated in an intensive week of activities to [...]
Community Care named to Inc. 5000 ranking
August 26th, 2010 
Gary Community Care College, along with its sister campuses, Clary Sage College and Oklahoma Technical College, today announced that the parent company was recently named to the Inc. 5000 list for 2010, a compendium of the most entrepreneurial and fastest growing private companies in the U.S. “Our college is joyously celebrating this accomplishmentm for this is [...]
OIGA hosts three-day conference, tradeshow
August 26th, 2010 Gary The 16th annual Oklahoma Indian Gaming Association Conference & Tradeshow will be Aug. 22-24 at the Tulsa Convention Center. The three-day event, the third largest gaming tradeshow in the nation, showcases the latest in Class II and Class III gaming while providing an opportunity for casino operators to learn about the new technology and trends. [...]
Paula Bryant-Ellis, president of BOKF Community Development Fund LLC
August 14th, 2010 Gary How did you find yourself in banking and finance? In high school, they had this program called regional occupational programming. You actually spend half your day working. My junior year I did a credit union, then my senior year I worked in a finance company. Because of that experience, I started as a teller right [...]
Williams approved to expand in Southeast
August 14th, 2010 Gary Williams Partners LP announced today that the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has approved a proposal to expand its Transco natural gas pipeline to serve markets in the southeastern U.S. New service from the Mobile Bay South II Expansion project would be available in May 2011. The project has been designed to create an additional 380,000 [...]
Public forum for downtown master plan this week
August 14th, 2010 Gary The public is invited to attend a public forum about the new Downtown Area Master Plan on Thursday at the Tulsa Community College’s Center for Creativity, 910 S. Boston Ave. The forum will be from 5:15 p.m. to 7 p.m. in the Event Center. The forum is the first of several events as part of [...]
Navico joins CMC Electronics to centralize distribution
August 11th, 2010 Gary Navico Inc., the world leader in recreational marine electronics manufacturing, announced yesterday it has joined forces with marine electronics distributor CMC Electronics, a wholly owned subsidiary of Esterline Corp., to centralize Canadian distribution of products within its brands and enhance customer support. Effective Oct. 4, CMC will have exclusive distribution rights for the Lowrance, Simrad [...]
Recycling contractor due improvement
August 11th, 2010 Gary Tulsa officials are seeking service improvements from the new recycling contractor for curbside pickup. The city of Tulsa has been working with RR Waste Solutions, the Texas-based firm that took over the service on June 1, to solve problems and reduce customer complaints. The company has increased the number of trucks working the recycling routes [...]
Tulsa innovation wins $25,000 from EDGE program
August 5th, 2010 Gary The Economic Development Generating Excellence policy board announced six recipients will receive funding from the inaugural EDGE Innovative Ideas Program. IIP is a new EDGE program designed to support highly innovative, early-stage ideas for one year at a maximum level of $25,000. IIP awards are intended to help move an idea from its “theoretical” stage [...]
Technology firms announce division transaction
August 5th, 2010 Gary SpringPoint Technologies, a technology staffing and information technology services provider, and Peak UpTime, a midsized IT solutions provider, announced Peak UpTime has purchased SpringPoint’s application development division. The sale follows the retirement of SpringPoint’s founder, Roger Short, and will provide an opportunity to expand the firm’s staffing and managed services divisions. “Staffing and managed services [...]
