Our own legislators are paid approximately $7,000 more than the starting salary of an Oklahoma teacher.
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Chicken-Fried News: We’re No. 6!
Women in Oklahoma lack voices in political venues and boardrooms, shows a recent study by financial advice website WalletHub.
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Letters to the Editor: Aug. 6, 2014
Starting salary isn’t the problem Your Chicken-Fried News piece (News, Chicken-Fried News, “More teachers needed,” July 23, Oklahoma Gazette) on low teacher pay has motivated me to share my two cents. I have been involved in Oklahoma education since 1968, when I began my teaching career at Ulysses S. Grant High School in Oklahoma City. […]
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Sorcerer, remake of 1953 thriler, hits the mark
A remake of the 1953 French film The Wages of Fear, the epic adventure concerns a handful of down-and-out men just desperate enough to agree to drive trucks full of liquid nitro through the South American jungle.
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LETTERS
If you doubt this, take your grill and start selling hot dogs in Bricktown as a street peddler. The government will jump on you like a rat on a Cheeto and shut you down. This non-free market, politicized economic process creates a large pool of low-income workers with no alternative but to work for someone […]
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Commentary: OKC benefits from market wages
Today, he is the CEO of his own successful construction company in Oklahoma, providing other young people their first opportunity for profitable employment.
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Getting high(er)
A 2 percent raise was approved for Couch and most other city workers during the Dec. 31 council meeting. All new salaries took effect Jan. 1. Couch, Municipal Counselor Ken Jordan and City Auditor Jim Williamson were considered for raises separate from other city employees because they are hired directly by the council. As the […]
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Angels unaware
According to its own numbers, the center works with approximately 1,200 central Oklahomans. Executive Director Connie McGoodwin said DRTC’s economic impact is profound, generating $5.5 million in wages for the state’s disabled community. In 1953, the center was founded as a school by parents inspired by Angel Unaware, a book by Dale Evans Rogers, the […]
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Municipal money
And a check of municipal salaries in the metro shows maybe that’s where college graduates should be looking for a high-paying job. What municipal officials in the area earn might be surprising in a county where the median household income — the combined income of the breadwinners in one house — is less than $43,000 a […]