WASHINGTON – The United States Postal Inspection Service advises everyone mailing gifts to become educated to ensure their packages arrive to their destination safely. Here are a few tips to consider this holiday season: 1. Don’t leave your delivered mail and packages unattended. Packages left on front porches and in mailboxes are a tempting target…
Mayor G.T. Bynum and the Tulsa City Council added more rule and regulations concerning the Chinese coronavirus outbreak and gave more teeth to enforcement of the new rules. The new ordinances include: A requirement for a “safety plan” for any event with 150 or more people has to be submitted and approved by the Tulsa…
Two seats on the Tulsa School Board will be up for grabs early in 2021. Filing for the TPS seats plus spots in most of the public school districts within Tulsa County will be December 7-9 at the Tulsa County Election Board. There will also be filing for city council races in Owasso and Sand…
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Recently, the Association of Mature American Citizens [AMAC] has received now more than 150,000 signatures on its petition in support of President Trump’s efforts to fight apparent election fraud in six states: Pennsylvania, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, Arizona and Georgia. According to Bob Carlstrom, president of AMAC Action, the organization’s senior advocacy affiliate,…
OKLAHOMA CITY – For the last four years, the Oklahoma Institute for Child Advocacy (OICA) has coordinated with the Oklahoma Department of Human Services (OKDHS) to collect gift donations for the state’s children in foster care under the program called OK Foster Wishes. Like just about every other facet of life, the COVID-19 pandemic is…
The Oklahoma CareerTech Testing Center, a division of the Oklahoma Department of Career and Technology Education, has agreed to provide the entrance exam for Oklahoma state trooper candidates. Under the agreement with the Department of Public Safety, applicants to the Oklahoma Highway Patrol Academy will take the Oklahoma Peace Officer Screening and Selection Exam developed…
Governor Kevin Stitt has appointed Carol Iski as District Attorney for District 25, which includes Okmulgee and McIntosh Counties. “Carol Iski has spent her career making an impact within the criminal justice system in our state,” said Gov. Stitt. “Iski is a proven prosecutor who has consistently advocated for justice on behalf of all Oklahomans,…
Child and adult care institutions across the state are announcing their participation in the Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP), which provides meals to hundreds of thousands of Oklahomans each year. During the last program year – October 1, 2019 to September 30, 2020 – over 910,000 children and adults were served in Oklahoma…
Kindergarten students and students in grades 1-3 have returned to in-person classes in Tulsa Public Schools. Students in grades 4-6 are scheduled to go back to in-person classes on January 4. That’s also when TPS students in middle and high schools and junior highs will return to class for the spring semester. Most students have…
State Sen. Nathan Dahm, R-Broken Arrow, filed a series of election integrity bills to further strengthen and secure the state’s election systems and encourage the United States Congress to do the same. Senate Concurrent Resolution 1 would work to help strengthen election integrity across the country and bring the focus back to the Constitutional provisions…