The Tulsa Beacon publishes 51 weeks a year and skips a week between Christmas and New Year’s. There is no paper on January 2. The December 26th issue next week will be mailed to subscribers on Christmas Eve and will have a double portion of standard features (comics, puzzles, columns, etc.) Because of the early…
Green Family donates property Hobby Lobby and the Green Family have donated the former St. Gregory’s University campus to Oklahoma Baptist University. The Green Family, worth billions, made it official Dec. 11 at the Rockwood Center on the campus of the former SGU, now the OBU Green Campus. Hobby Lobby purchased the property last year…
If you travel to Atlanta for Christmas, you can expect to find the most aggressive drivers in the nation, according to a study by GasBuddy. Four of the top 4 most aggressive cities – Sacramento, Los Angeles, San Francisco and San Diego – are in California. GasBuddy stated that consumers driving in certain cities across…
For the first time in history, Oklahoma public school enrollment exceeds 700,000 students. The state’s annual student count shows 703,650 students enrolled in Pre-K through 12th grade for the 2019-20 school year, an increase of 5,064 over last year’s total. The figures were collected Oct. 1, and released this month by the Oklahoma State Department…
Oklahoma City – It’s an unspoken expectation as part of a member’s service in the Oklahoma Air National Guard at Will Rogers Air National Guard Base that “part-time” does not mean their service stops when they are living a life as a civilian. Their service in the military is part time, but those values are ingrained….
POINT LOOKOUT, MO. — Forbes magazine recently released the College Financial Grades ranking and gave College of the Ozarks an “A” grade. The University of Tulsa got a “B.” Oklahoma Baptist, ORU, and Mid-America Christian University got “C”s. Oklahoma Christian University, Bacone College and Oklahoma Wesleyan each got a “C”-minus while Oklahoma City University, Southern…
OKLAHOMA CITY – U.S. Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Ben Carson announced nearly $200 million in grant awards to 52 Native American Tribes and Tribally Designated Housing Entities (TDHEs) across the nation for new construction. In Oklahoma, 4 tribes shared $12,204,173 under the program. The Chickasaw Nation got $5 million. The Modoc Tribe of…
Kristin Weis, co-founder and CEO of Project Demand has been appointed to a National Platform to Fight Human Sex Trafficking. She is one of the nine people appointed by President Donald Trump to the Public-Private Partnerships Council to End Human Trafficking. U.S. Sen. James Lankford, R-Oklahoma, and U.S. Rep. Markwayne Mullin, nominated her for the…
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) allocated over $2.3 billion to support the long-term disaster recovery process in hard-hit areas in fifteen states, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, American Samoa and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. This allocation is supported through HUD’s Community Development…
Sen. Nathan Dahm, R-Broken Arrow, has filed legislation to give Oklahomans an income tax credit to offset the costs of work-related licenses required by the state. “We’ve been studying occupational licensing for years, and the one thing we’ve seen is growth in government where people are required to get a license, often unnecessarily, before they…