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The State Chamber of Oklahoma is applauding the proposal of a bill to create the Oklahoma Workforce Commission. Senator Adam Pugh (SB 41) of Edmond has introduced SB 621 to give the commission the power to coordinate and develop Oklahoma’s workforce systems to incentivize outcomes.
Read moreOklahoma Cattlemen’s Association (OCA) members gathered in Oklahoma City on Thursday, January 26th for the 2023 Annual Winter Policy Meeting. “This is one of two policy making opportunities for OCA members during the year,” said Michael Kelsey, Executive Vice President, “with the other being the annual Convention in July.”
Read moreU.S. Department of Agriculture Rural Development Oklahoma State Director, Kenneth Corn, Monday announced the Department is investing $50 million to assist the Arkansas Valley Electric Cooperative Corporation expand and modernize the nation’s rural electric grid and increase grid security for Leflore and Sequoyah Counties.
Read moreSTILLWATER, Okla. – Thomas G. Coon, vice president and dean of Oklahoma State University’s Division of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources, is retiring on July 10 after nine years of dedicated service and visionary leadership to the university.
Read moreOKLAHOMA CITY – The Oklahoma Institute for Child Advocacy (OICA) annually holds two conferences, one to shape policies that will benefit the youth of Oklahoma and the other to educate advocates about how to be more effective when pursuing policy changes with lawmakers.
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Today is the 32nd day of 2023 and the 43rd day of winter. TODAY’S HISTORY: In 1861, a Texas state convention voted 166-8 in favor of a measure to secede from the Union. In 1884, the first volume of the Oxford English Dictionary was published. In 1965, Martin Luther King Jr. and more than 700 others were arrested at a protest in Selma, Alabama. In 2003, the U.S. space shuttle Columbia broke apart shortly after entering the atmosphere over Texas, killing its seven-
Read moreVeryable Incorporated will sign a partnership agreement with Western Governors University (WGU), an accredited, online nonprofit university to provide operators the opportunity to pursue multiple paths to higher education and professional development.
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