When the 4-to-Fix sales tax ended on September 30, 2011, sales tax rates in Tulsa County dropped by 2/12 of one penny. All parts of Tulsa County except the City of Tulsa realized the decrease starting October 1. Voters in the City of Tulsa, in 2008, approved the “Fix Our Streets” sales tax program, which [...]

The ownership of 10 acres of land included as part of Tulsa Technology Center’s proposed 55-acre, $38.5 million Owasso campus is in question. In July 2000, Opal Robinson donated 10 acres to the Tulsa County Area Vocational-Technical School with a deed restriction that required the school to “commence the construction of its school facilities” within [...]

Tulsa banker and community leader Dow Hughes has been named president of the Oklahoma Foundation for Excellence, a charitable organization that recognizes and encourages academic excellence in Oklahoma’s public schools. Hughes joined the foundation’s board of trustees in 2003 and has served on the foundation’s executive and management committees. He has also served two years [...]

In the last issue of the Tulsa Business Journal, we talked about the cost of capital for your business. In this article, we follow up with a discussion on how to plan your budget and capital for 2011. Before we get started, the extraordinary environment in which you are expected to make plans for 2011 [...]

Shaun Donovan, U.S. Housing & Urban Development secretary, yesterday awarded an additional $5 million in funding to Oklahoma communities struggling to reverse the effects of the foreclosure crisis. The grants represent a third round of funding through HUD’s Neighborhood Stabilization Program and will provide targeted emergency assistance to help acquire, redevelop or demolish foreclosed properties. [...]

Tulsa experts in government guaranteed loans and business valuation will be available to answer questions of participants in the first of a series of business webinars Oct. 14. The Tulsa Business Journal is joining Oklahoma Corporate Acquisitions as a strategic partner in presenting the OCA Business Forum, a series of webinars designed to give the [...]

The Petroleum Club of Tulsa is looking to recapture its original essence with a move from its current digs on the 15th and 16th floors of The Petroleum Club Building, 601 S. Boulder Ave., to the 41st floor of First Place Tower, 15 E. Fifth St. The move is six years in the making, said [...]

Customers now can text message and instant message their research questions to Tulsa City-County Library’s AskUs Hotline in addition to e-mailing, faxing and telephoning. “Whether you need information about a community organization or directions to a local business or the answer to a research question, we’re here to answer your questions quickly, accurately and efficiently,” [...]

Wallace Engineering announced Chief Marketing Officer Brad Thurman was recently appointed to the Society for Marketing Professional Services’ board of directors as an at-large delegate for 2010-2012. Thurman received his bachelor’s in architectural studies and master’s in architectural engineering from Oklahoma State University. He has been a principal at Wallace Engineering since 1991 and was [...]

SeekingSitters Franchise Systems Inc., a national babysitting referral service, has been named to the 2010 Inc. 500 list of fastest growing private companies in the U.S. “We are honored to be recognized among America’s fastest growing companies,” said Adrienne Kallweit, president and founder of SeekingSitters. “We believe that our success is due to our business [...]