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Tierra Media Group launches EastWord, an Eastern Oklahoma County publication

Tierra Media Group, parent company to Oklahoma Gazette and OKCBiz magazine, launched a new weekly publication, EastWord, in eastern Oklahoma County March 4.

OKCBiz staff

Compass: Rose State College opens new Health Sciences Center in Midwest City

Atlas General Contractors of Bixby constructed the facility and The Benham Companies designed the new 44,000- square-foot, single-story structure.

Pamela A. Grady

Midwest City's Heritage Park Mall to close in February

Come February 15, Midwest City’s Heritage Park Mall, 6801 E Reno Ave., will close its doors. The 575,000-square foot facility has slowly been losing tenants.

Pamela Grady

As sales tax collections continue to decline, OKC braces for never-before-seen budget cuts

Until spending improves for the long term to boost sales tax collections, Oklahoma City departments will be cutting budgets at a level unlike any seen before.

Heidi Rambo Centrella

New Health Sciences Center to Open at Rose State College

Rose State College will teach its inaugural classes in a new 44,000 square foot Health Sciences Center for the 2010 spring semester which begins Jan. 19.

Stephen Carradini

National Science Foundation grants Rose State with $125K for computer upgrade

Rose State College said Dec. 23 its cyber security program will receive a $125,000 National Science Foundation grant to upgrade its program with mobile device access and “virtual computers”— a system that creates images of computers on different servers and allows students to work on them from different locations.

Oklahoma City faces budget cuts as sales-tax collections decline

The December distribution of collections, primarily representing local tax receipts from October business, show declines in seven metro area cities when compared to the same month last year. Those cities include Oklahoma City, Edmond, Norman, Midwest City, Moore, Chickasha and Guthrie.

Heidi Rambo Centrella

Tierra Media Group plans to launch Eastern Oklahoma County publication

Tierra Media Group, parent company to Oklahoma Gazette and OKCBiz magazine, announced Nov. 24 that it will launch a new weekly publication, EastWord, in eastern Oklahoma County March 1, 2010.

Tenants from Tinker relocate to old GM plant as renovations continue

When the General Motors plant in Oklahoma City unexpectedly closed in February 2006, the facility became a subject of speculation. Those questions were answered in 2008, when Oklahoma County purchased the facility, with taxpayer approval, to lease the old plant to the U.S. Air Force.

Heide Brandes

Oklahoma City sales-tax collection declines 12.3 percent

A compilation of metro area sales tax collections by the Oklahoma Tax Commission shows several cities continue to see declines.

Heidi Rambo Centrella