Articles tagged with: Oklahoma City
- Does Tulsa-OKC rivalry help or get in the way?
- 10 Commandments monument may soon be placed at Capitol
- More budget cuts ‘very possible’ for state agencies
- Oklahoma health care premiums rising almost 3 times faster than wages
- Ugandan girl comes to OKC for life-saving surgery
- OKC council approves rail transit hub study
- 1 percent of all future OKC construction costs to be used for public art
- Cherokee Nation blocked from joining poultry pollution case
- No buyouts for Treece, KS residents just over the border from Picher
- ODOT hosting public meeting on high-speed rail plans tonight
- Stillwater counting on 2010 Census to raise profile
- Cornett will present MAPS 3 proposal within 2 weeks
- An open letter to the man in the red truck
- OKC rallies air opposing views on health care
- Indian tribes finding little success with Supreme Court
From NewsOK:
Read the full story »Oklahoma City’s latest sales tax report was gloomy, but city officials see signs that the economy may be turning around.
August general fund sales tax collections, which reflect taxes paid by consumers in late June and the first half of July, were $14.3 million — or 8.5 percent — below target and 5.5 percent below collections a year ago.
Although the numbers are down, City Manager Jim Couch said there is an encouraging sign. Last month, sales tax was 9.7 percent below the previous year. The 5.5 percent decrease this month is an improvement, the first time the number has trended up since December.
From NewsOK:
Read the full story »Three years ago Bricktown’s property owners and merchants were barely on speaking terms, and the hostility was palpable.
Gunshots already had fired — granted, they were at the hands of suspected gang members getting too testy on a hot summer night. But the police presence that flooded the district after that violent summer of 2006 might well have been keeping the peace among property owners and merchants as much as anything else.
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What a difference a couple of years make.
From The Journal Record:
Read the full story »Anyone who thinks of downtown Oklahoma City as one entity should look again. While downtown covers a wide area, it has several districts, each with unique identities and long-term goals.
Some of the areas, like Bricktown, are known near and far. Other areas, like Midtown and Automobile Alley, are more widely known to locals. In the Film Exchange District, work is just starting to rehabilitate an area that has been ailing for decades.
A.J. Kirkpatrick, planner II with the Urban Redevelopment Division with the Oklahoma City Planning Department, deals daily with the concerns and challenges of developers in each of the districts working to improve their areas with public and private dollars.
