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Fallin Seeks SBA Disaster Aid for Tulsa
Gov. Mary Fallin has asked the federal government to declare Tulsa a disaster area because of tornadoes and other severe weather seen there since Aug. 5. Fallin directed her request Friday to the U.S. Small Business Administration. If her request is granted, the SBA will make low-interest disaster loans to business owners, homeowners and renters for repair or replacement of storm-damaged property. Counties contiguous to Tulsa County, including Wagoner and Rogers counties, also would be...
Waiting List Closed, Will be Purged as Tulsa Housing Authority Changes Systems
The waiting list for public housing in Tulsa is now closed and will be purged on Sept. 29. Those actions are part of the process to change from a centralized waiting list to individual lists for all 13 properties owned by the Tulsa Housing Authority. "We will still be working from the waiting list that we currently have, we're just not accepting new people onto that list," said THA President Aaron Darden. "So, we'll house as many people as we can up until that point." The change will allow...
Tracing The Dark Origins Of Charlottesville's KKK
The front page of The Daily Progress , Charlottesville's local paper, on June 28, 1921, offers a mix of local minutiae folded in with larger news. "VALUABLE DOG DEAD," shouts one headline. "WON'T ACCEPT WAGE CUT," says another. And then, right up near the top, bordered with teeny asterisks, is this headline: "KU KLUX KLAN ORGANIZED HERE." What follows is this reverential, two-paragraph recounting of the local Klan's birth: "The spirit of Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest hovered over...
Oldest Kids In Class Do Better, Even Through College
Children who start school at an older age do better than their younger classmates and have better odds of attending college and graduating from an elite institution. That's according to a new study from the National Bureau of Economic Affairs. Many parents already delay enrolling their children in school, believing they'll do better if they're a bit older. It's sort of "academic red-shirting," says one of the study's authors, David Figlio, an economist at Northwestern University, using a term...
On the Next Edition of All This Jazz: A Excellent Earful of Newly Released Jazz Albums
We're happy to return -- relaxed, refocused, and refreshed from a tall, cool drink of summer vacay -- with a new broadcast of All This Jazz, starting at 9pm sharp on Saturday the 19th, right here on KWGS / Public Radio Tulsa. On this edition of our show, we'll hear from Fred Hersch, June Christy, Wayne Horvitz, Gerry Mulligan, Louis Armstrong, Steps Ahead, and other jazz greats past and present. And our 3rd-hour theme, running from 11pm until midnight, will be Newly Released Recordings --...
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