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While Oklahoma is frequently touted as an affordable place to live, it is isn’t affordable to everyone. Recent research from the National Low-Income Housing Coalition, Oklahoma ranks 44th for housing costs and Oklahomans need to earn at least $16.28 per hour in order to afford a modest two-bedroom apartment.
Read moreThe University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center (OUHSC) has received an Unrestricted Grant by Research to Prevent Blindness (RPB) in the amount of $575,000 over 5 years to support eye research conducted by the Department of Ophthalmology.
Read moreSSM Health Oklahoma is pleased to have officially assumed responsibility for operations associated with the health care facility located at 2401 W. Wrangler Blvd. in Seminole, Okla. Effective July 1, 2022 at 12:01 am, the facility became SSM Health St. Anthony Hospital - Shawnee, Seminole Campus. The facility operates under the license of SSM Health St. Anthony Hospital - Shawnee.
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Workers were busy Friday morning digging trenches in preparation of new fiberoptic lines on the Seminole State College campus. Fiberoptic lines will result in improved communications at the college. Fiberoptics permit transmission over longer distances and at higher band. The optical fibers used in fiber optics are sometimes made of plastic but most often are made of glass. —Staff Photo by Andy Wilson
Read moreThe Oklahoma Employment Security Commission (OESC) released on July 29 shows that unemployment in Seminole County dropped from what was reported last year and held steady over the previous month. This report contains the statistics for May 2022. The new report states that unemployment rates in May were lower than a year earlier in all of Oklahoma’s 77 counties.
Read moreHobby Lobby Stores, Inc., a national arts-andcrafts retailer, violated federal law when it refused to reasonably accommodate a cashier at its Olathe, Kansas store by allowing her to use a service dog and then fired her because of her disabilities, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed last week.
Read moreLow-interest federal disaster loans are now available to Oklahoma businesses and residents as a result of President Biden’s major disaster declaration, U.S. Small Business Administration’s Administrator Isabella Casillas Guzman announced.
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