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Oklahoma Tax Revenue slows after April Peak, reflects national cooling

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OKLAHOMA CITY (June 10, 2025) – Oklahoma tax revenues dipped in May following a record-setting April, with the latest monthly tax revenue totaling $1.28 billion—a 36% decline from April largely due to the end of tax season. But broader trends in employment, inflation, and consumer spending signal that Oklahoma’s economy remains steady but guarded, mirroring…

Tulsa Housing Starts Surge 23% Year-to-date!

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Tulsa, Okla. — The Home Builders Association of Greater Tulsa reports a 23.1% increase in housing starts across the Tulsa metro area for the first four months of 2025, with 1,315 new residential permits issued, compared to 1,064 during the same period in 2024. April 2025 saw 253 new home starts, a slight decrease of…

Report suggests it’s all play, no work for many on Medicaid

Tulsa Beacon

In 2020, by an extremely narrow margin, Oklahoma voters opted to expand the state’s Medicaid program to provide medical welfare benefits to able-bodied adults with lower earnings and no children. That expansion has diverted hundreds of millions of dollars away from other uses in the years since, and the price tag could be set to…

Soaklahoma – where the rain comes sweeping down the plains

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STILLWATER, Okla. – By June, Oklahoma gardeners usually encounter parched soil begging for a drink, but the last few weeks have delivered an onslaught of rain in nearly epic proportions. Now, gardeners are grappling with how to salvage flowers and vegetables from record-setting rainfall. Laura Payne, Oklahoma State University Extension horticulture educator in Payne County,…

Tenth Annual Kristin Chenoweth Broadway Bootcamp comes to B. A.

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BROKEN ARROW, OK – It’s time once again for a bright light to shine on Broken Arrow as Emmy and Tony Award winner Kristin Chenoweth’s Broadway Bootcamp returns to town for the tenth annual Broadway Bootcamp, coming to the Broken Arrow Performing Arts Center July 16 to 26. “Auditions from all over the world have…

Gas prices fall in Tulsa again

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Average gasoline prices in Tulsa have fallen 9.7 cents per gallon in the last week, averaging $2.72/g today, according to GasBuddy’s survey of 321 stations in Tulsa. Prices in Tulsa are 3.3 cents per gallon lower than a month ago and stand 16.5 cents per gallon lower than a year ago. The national average price…

TCC Students Named Finalists in National Innovation Competition

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TULSA, Okla. – Tulsa Community College is one of 12 finalist teams nationwide that will advance to the next phase of the Community College Innovation Challenge, a national competition sponsored by the American Association of Community Colleges and the National Science Foundation. TCC is the only college in Oklahoma selected as a finalist. The annual…

Oklahoma leaders hail session successes

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Despite some last-day drama, Gov. Kevin Stitt and legislative leaders declared the 2025 legislative session one of the most successful in their tenures. “I think we’ve had one of the best, most conservative sessions ever,” Stitt said at a May 28 press conference. “We have the quarter-point tax cut that I just signed. We have…

Greenwood Trust announced

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Mayor Monroe Nichols’ announced on June 1st the creation of a private charitable trust named The Greenwood Trust, which would serve as an avenue to encourage economic growth and development in North Tulsa, the historic Greenwood District, and surrounding neighborhoods, to address disparities experienced by Tulsa Race Massacre survivors, descendants, Historic Greenwood District and North…

Hail and Twisters dominate May weather

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After April’s stormy chaos, the first half of May brought a rare lull in Oklahoma’s spring severe weather season. Aside from an active kickoff on May 1 — featuring large hail, damaging winds, tornadoes, and flash flooding — the state experienced a quiet 16-day stretch, interrupted only by a single report of half-dollar-size hail in…