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Oklahoma City Public Schools superintendent Karl Springer and school board chairman Kirk Humphreys are unveiling a plan this week to shore up what they say is a $40 million shortfall in the 2007 bond issue. The attempted solution involves tapping into unused bonding capacity and extending the maturity of the school bonds. THE ‘SILO’ EFFECT […]

The party season is over. What to do with the new contacts you met at that holiday shindig? You could send a tweet on Twitter, friend them on Facebook or request a link up on LinkedIn. But, watch your wording or risk stumbling into another realm of social outcasts. SOCIAL MEDIUMSBUILDING RELATIONSHIPSPASSIONS Several Oklahoma City […]

Oklahoma City Mayor Mick Cornett said in his State of the City speech Thursday that the metro is”¦for now”¦riding out the economic tidal wave that’s hitting the rest of the country. “This month there are dozens of mayors that are standing in front of audiences much like this one and they are explaining to their […]

Nearly seven decades after they first splashed onto the scene, Oklahoma’s first five American Indian ballerinas are still impacting lives and changing the cultural atmosphere of the ballet world. With one of the five now gone, the legacy of the final four lives on in the next generation of American Indian ballerinas ” ballerinas who […]

With an estimated 50 percent of marriages ending in divorce, and Oklahoma consistently ranking in the top five nationally, the prevalence of divorce has many people alarmed. Its emotional toll is well-known, but its financial implications can be just as complicated and devastating. “Couples are going to need to support two households for a while […]

Free homebuyer education workshops offered by the Community Action Agency of Oklahoma City and Oklahoma/Canadian Counties (CAA) give first-time homebuyers a clearer understanding of the process of purchasing a home. Workshops are held twice a month in the metro; January’s are scheduled for Friday and Jan. 23. The half-day classes, from noon to 4:30 p.m., […]

With the click of a mouse, you can find a former classmate now living halfway around the world. You can also connect with fellow professionals in your area. You can even track your friends’ day-to-day movements ” in real time. But what impact does this have on our personal and professional lives? And when does […]

Nothing beats a great pair of legs. Except maybe two dozen of them. For the past four years, Oklahoma City University alum and OKC resident Karen Boyd Bethel has been one of 24 of the world-famous Rockettes touring the country with the “Radio City Christmas Spectacular.” With each new year, she’s living a childhood dream, […]

Hoa Tran left Vietnam on a U.S. Navy ship the day Saigon fell, April 30, 1975. He would not see his family again for four years. Tran was one of more than 700,000 Vietnamese refugees who fled in the days, weeks and even years after Gen. Van Tien Dung’s North Vietnamese army occupied Saigon, bringing […]

After lugging around bags of empty soda bottles for an environmental club at her Oklahoma City high school, 17-year-old Andrea Hernandez decided to take her eco-ethics home to a family that wasn’t all that excited to hear her ideas. Her mother acted confused when she found her daughter labeling the family’s trash bins by categories: […]