12 October 2010
The Department of Justice today granted Tulsa $4.49 million to hire and retain 23 police officers. The grant is part of $298 million distributed across the U.S. today by the DOJ. The grants provide 100 percent of the approved salary and benefits for entry-level officer positions over a three-year period. Police departments receiving the grants [...]
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12 October 2010
Mayor Dewey Bartlett Jr. and Police Chief Chuck Jordan announced the Tulsa Police Department will be accepting the 2010 Cops grant, which is approximately $4.4 million for three years, funding 23 officer positions. The next step is to submit a budget amendment to the City Council for approval. Bartlett also said a police academy of [...]
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12 October 2010
Community Action Project’s innovative pilot program, CareerAdvance, will receive a nearly $2 million grant this year from the Department of Health & Human Services. The grant, which is funded through the Health Care Reform Act, is expected to be funded annually for five years, for a total of nearly $10 million. CareerAdvance, which began in [...]
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12 October 2010
Bank of Oklahoma has significantly added to its status as the top bank ranked for market share based on deposits in the Tulsa MSA, increasing its deposits by nearly $1 billion year over year. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. annual summary of deposits report, released Thursday, showed that BOK increased its market share from 24.06 [...]
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12 October 2010
A half dozen financial institutions with presence in the Tulsa market have been ranked on the Bancography Brand Value Index, an annual ranking of banks and credit unions based on brand strength. The 2010 index, by Birmingham, Ala.-based Bancography, ranks Bixby-based Citizens Security Bank & Trust Co. No. 4 among midsized banks with assets between [...]
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12 October 2010
Taxes will be increasing in 2011 at every level for individuals. Only action by the U.S. Congress extending the Bush tax cuts passed in 2001 and 2003 during the George W. Bush Administration can prevent those hikes, which could increase to a maximum of nearly 40 percent, according to a letter to senators written by [...]
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12 October 2010
The City of Tulsa’s sales tax collections for mid-August to mid-September, as reported by the Oklahoma Tax Commission, are above last year’s totals for the same period and above the budget estimate for the month. Actual tax received is $17.1 million, up 5.6 percent from the $16.2 million collected during the same period last year. [...]
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12 October 2010
Major energy-efficiency initiatives are thriving at the state level in some areas of the U.S., but not Oklahoma, according to a scorecard from the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy. State and federal officials will join the ACEEE for a live National Press Club news conference at 9 a.m. tomorrow in Washington, D.C., to announce [...]
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11 October 2010
Oklahoma will receive $5,506,310 from the U.S. Department of Labor for state unemployment insurance technology infrastructure grants. The U.S. Department of Labor said a total of $164.5 million will go to 49 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands to make technology upgrades that will improve the operation and security of [...]
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11 October 2010
American Electric Power Co. Inc., parent company of Tulsa-based Public Service Co. of Oklahoma, has established itself as a front-runner in the emerging field of accounting for sustainability with the publication of its first integrated Corporate Accountability Report. The report for 2010 combines the annual report and sustainability report for AEP, one of the largest [...]
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