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Week of February 13, 2010

This week’s Tulsa Times features the big changes coming to the Brady Arts District.  It is using a combination of philanthropic money, state and federal tax credits and historic district designations to reinvent itself as an urban oasis where people can easily walk from home to work and to lots of entertainment venues. We will give you a tour including a glimpse into some hip new loft apartments created in an historic building.

The Brady Distrct is also becoming a one of the greenest renovations in the state because at its heart will be a new central park that will have lots of geo-thermal wells underneath to provide heating and cooling for the Matthews Building, and eco-friendly solar and LED lighting above to brighten the night.  The Matthews Building will become the cultural hub of the district housing the Philbrook Museum’s Adkins Southwestern Art Collection as well as providing space for Gilcrease Museum and TU and the Arts and Humanities Council.

 We’re also featuring Ft. Gibson’s efforts to find alternative funding to make up for the loss of state money that normally finances its operations. We will take you on a tour of Ft. Gibson which is Oklahoma's oldest town. The log fort's rough hewn rooms provided protection for soldiers, settlers and native american tribes being removed to Eastern Oklahoma.  It provided a place for people moving west to trade.  It was also a place to lock up outlaws.  Today it is a tourist attraction that gives the town revenue thoughout the year.

Week of January 30th, 2010

The winter weather is welcomed by one industry in this state.  Kenneth Beaty has been delivering propane to rural homes and businesses in Northeast Oklahoma for a quarter of a century and with the temperatures in the deep freeze he has been working up to 16 hours a day delivering to customers who are using more propane than normal.  Cathy Tatom goes on the winter road to show you the fuel needs in rural Oklahoma.

Tulsa Public Schools have added more training sessions to get volunteers trained to serve for free as substitute teachers in the classroom.  Tulsa School Superintendent Keith Ballard has eliminated paid substitue postions because of state budget cuts and he is hoping the community will pitch in to help.  Substitues don't have to have any teaching experience and they don't have to have a college degree.  The must however, pass a background check and complete three hours of training.

The town of Picher is no more.   But before it officially ceased to exist leaders there pooled the city's remaining funds and gave an endowment of more than a half a million dollars to Northeastern Oklahoma A&M College in Miami.  The money will be used by the school to preserve Picher's history and to give scholarships to young people who were some of picher's last residents.  Picher was once a thriving mining town but in recent times it has been known as one of the worst polluted land in the nation and was declared the Tar Creek Superfund Site by the Environmental Protection Agency.

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