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At Wednesday’s Council Budget and Special Projects committee meeting, Tulsa city councilors voiced concern about the mayor’s plan to create a separate emergency management agency.

City councilors concerned about handling of separate emergency management agency At Wednesday’s Council Budget and Special Projects committee meeting, Tulsa city councilors voiced concern about the mayor’s plan to create a separate emergency management agency.

The Metropolitan Tulsa Transit Authority Board unanimously approved a motion to allow General Manager Scott Marr to begin negotiations with realtors to sell the decades-old transit hub and find locations to build a new one.

Tulsa transit authority approves first step to sell downtown bus station The move has been in the works for years. Tulsa’s 2018 Arena District Master Plan included the goal of either moving or revamping the downtown station.

Thank you Ben for your years of reporting! Best luck in Philadelphia!! We will miss you!

A fond farewell with much appreciation to the great Ben Abrams, the KWGS News Senior Reporter and “All Things Considered” Host whose last day here at Public Radio Tulsa is today (6/12). Ben has been doing outstanding journalistic work at our station for the past three years or so; he’s leaving us in order to take a job with WHYY in Philadelphia. (He’s actually from Philly.) Nice going, Ben! And happy trails.

At a press conference announcing the charges, Drummond said Charles Hudgins, TPS’ former director of bond development, hired two contractors to do engineering work on school roofs when, according to prosecutors, no work was completed nor ever needed.

State AG, Tulsa DA charge three with defrauding Tulsa Public Schools Prosecutors allege a former TPS official hired two contractors under bogus work orders for school roofs when no work was completed nor ever needed.

The voice and pen who has filed many remarkable stories in Oklahoma is stepping off the Sooner state beat.

KWGS bids farewell to news director Elizabeth Caldwell The voice and pen who has filed many remarkable stories in Oklahoma is stepping off the Sooner state beat. KWGS' Angel Ford sat down with KWGS' Elizabeth Caldwell to hear about her new job in Jacksonville, Florida. Listen above or read a transcript below.