The Indian Health Care Resource Center of Tulsa is one of eight organizations nationwide to receive the Office of Minority Health’s Partnerships Active in Communities to Achieve Health Equity federal grant. The Healthy Tulsa Pathways project is a family-centered program benefitting Native Americans and other minority populations in 10 of Tulsa’s high-risk ZIP codes. The [...]

Mayor Dewey Bartlett will address city government issues during a Tulsa Press Club Page One luncheon Tuesday, Nov. 23. The luncheon is scheduled for 11:15 a.m., and the presentation will commence at noon. Bartlett became the 39th mayor of Tulsa in 2009. Prior to running for mayor, Bartlett was a Tulsa city councilor. He currently [...]

U.S. Department of Agriculture state directors Francie Tolle, Ryan McMullen and Ron Hilliard confirmed yesterday that the USDA will host a community forum Oct. 28 in Weatherford. The intent of the forum is to incorporate input from Oklahomans into the USDA’s plan to expand the U.S. biofuels market. The USDA’s ultimate goal is for the [...]

Attorney General Drew Edmondson today announced he will join the law firm GableGotwals as a shareholder in the firm’s Oklahoma City office after his term in public office ends in January. Edmondson has served as the state’s attorney general since his election in 1994 and served as the president of the National Association of Attorneys [...]

Mayor Dewey Bartlett Jr., the Tulsa Development Authority and Brickhugger LLC will have a news conference tomorrow at 2 p.m. at the former City Hall as closing documents for the building are signed. After they are signed, the building will no longer be a public facility or be on the city land rolls; it will [...]

Recently, a group of interested citizens, business leaders and local officials met at The Silo Event Center, 4501 W. 41st St., in an attempt to reinvigorate community support of The American, a 207-foot tall Native American statue proposed in 2004 for northwest Tulsa. Designed by Shan Gray, a Bartlesville native, as an entry into the [...]

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 [...]

The U.S. Supreme Court has granted the Osage Nation’s request to have its deadline for submitting a Writ of Certiorari petition extended to Oct. 22 in its appeal against the Oklahoma Tax Commission. This means the tribe will have a longer time frame to decide whether it will submit an appeal to the U.S. Supreme [...]

Mayor Dewey Bartlett Jr. announced at yesterday’s City Council Urban & Economic Development Committee meeting that he will recall police officers who were laid off during the current fiscal year, pending the Council approval of the proposed budget for fiscal year 2011 and Fraternal Order of Police approval of the police contract for next year. [...]

The U.S. Department of Labor today announced $119.6 million in funding allocations for Trade Adjustment Assistance to assist workers who lose their jobs due to outsourcing and foreign trade. Oklahoma is receiving $915,659 in this second distribution, of which $796,225 is to be allocated for training, with the remainder going to administrative costs. This brings [...]