Core questions help shore up city plans 30 min ago | Leave a comment A panel of development experts from the Urban Land Institute will arrive in Oklahoma City later this week to study plans for the Core to Shore project and make recommendations on how best to...

Oklahoma drivers may continue to face rising fuel costs Tue, Mar 9, 2010 | Leave a comment It seems to be as immutable as any of the laws of nature. Gasoline prices rise every year as warmer temperatures signal an end to winter. Still, Oklahoma drivers are facing higher than usual gas...

Planning experts’ visit to city is turning heads Tue, Mar 9, 2010 | Leave a comment The Urban Land Institute spent one week in Oklahoma City, spoke to dozens of people, and came out with a report that seemed to have enough material to stun just about everybody. The panel of...

Oklahoma Briefs: Chesapeake plans dividend Mon, Mar 8, 2010 | Leave a comment Chesapeake plans dividend Chesapeake Energy Corp. will pay shareholders a quarterly dividend of 7.5 cents, the company announced Monday. The dividend will be paid April 15 on about 651 million...

Business efforts prompt top honor Mon, Mar 8, 2010 | Leave a comment A decade after establishing his own venture to help other small, minority owned firms, Oklahoma City businessman Phil Busey has been named Oklahoma’s Small Business Person of the Year. The...

Business Briefs: Bank merger completed Mon, Mar 8, 2010 | Leave a comment Bank merger completed BancFirst Corp. completed the previously announced merger of First State Bank in Jones into BancFirst on Friday, the Oklahoma City company said Monday. First State Bank had...

Oklahoma Business People Sat, Mar 6, 2010 | Leave a comment →McAfee & Taft name Stephanie Chapman, Todd Court, Stephen M. Hetrick, Mark W. Malone, Beau M. Patterson, Natalie K. Ramsey, Paul A. Ross and Ronald T. Shinn Jr. shareholders. Chapman...

Panel urges Core to Shore changes Sat, Mar 6, 2010 | Leave a comment An Urban Land Institute panel reviewing Oklahoma City’s Core to Shore plan warned Friday the project will take 50 years, and not 15 years as anticipated, and advised a proposed boulevard will...

Urban land experts foretold future Tue, Mar 2, 2010 | Leave a comment The experts at the Urban Land Institute are back in town examining Core to Shore, and this weeklong visit marks the third such involvement by the group at a critical moment of development of the...

Oklahoma Briefs: LSB to supply ammonium nitrate Mon, Mar 1, 2010 | Leave a comment LSB to supply ammonium nitrate A subsidiary of Oklahoma City-based LSB Industries Inc. has signed a five-year agreement to supply 250,000 tons per year of industrial-grade ammonium nitrate to an...

Tech Bytes: Quake aid to Chile is a text away Mon, Mar 1, 2010 | Leave a comment Quake aid to Chile is a text away To support earthquake relief efforts in Chile, AT&T wireless phone customers can donate $10 per text to one or more of six...

U.S. Supreme Court ends gas tax appeal Mon, Mar 1, 2010 | Leave a comment ALVA — Woods County schools stand to gain more than $1 million in the wake of a U.S. Supreme Court decision allowing the assessor to tax natural gas stored there. The Supreme Court on Monday...

Hobby Lobby's health clinic to aid employees, cut costs Mon, Mar 1, 2010 | Leave a comment Health care and wellness programs are now more accessible — and often free — to Hobby Lobby employees. The arts and crafts retailer was to open a new health clinic today at its Oklahoma...

Executive Q&A with David L. Loftis: Caregiving often is daily challenge Sat, Feb 27, 2010 | Leave a comment It’s a Thursday afternoon and David Loftis, franchise owner of Home Instead Senior Care, is talking about his life’s work. "I got a call from a lady the other day,” Loftis...

Oklahoma Business People Sat, Feb 27, 2010 | Leave a comment →LWPB Architecture names Peter Barlow and Mike Schimmer architects. Barlow previously worked as an architectural intern for a company in Austin, TX. Schimmer recently worked as a project...

Business Briefs: Home loan rates go up Fri, Feb 26, 2010 | Leave a comment HOME LOAN RATES GO UP Rates for 30-year home loans rose above the 5 percent threshold for the first time in three weeks. The average rate fixed rate mortgage was 5.05 percent this week, up from...

Regional manufacturing sees growth for month Thu, Feb 25, 2010 | Leave a comment Manufacturing in February continued on a positive path, a regional survey that includes Oklahoma reported Thursday. The 10th Federal Reserve District manufacturing activity survey representing...

Oklahoma Briefs: Hobby Lobby opens clinic Thu, Feb 25, 2010 | Leave a comment Hobby Lobby opens clinic Hobby Lobby Stores Inc. will open a new health and wellness clinic Tuesday at its Oklahoma City headquarters. The clinic will be open to employees of Hobby Lobby,...

Q&A with Alan G. Holloway: Proper estate planning can help families prevent costly disputes Thu, Feb 25, 2010 | Leave a comment Proper estate planning can help families prevent costly disputes Q: Recently, actor Dennis Hopper, who is ill, and his wife have been having a legal dispute over what will happen with his estate...

Dress Barn collects clothing to be distributed to women in need Wed, Feb 24, 2010 | Leave a comment A national donation drive to give women a secondhand suit and second chance at life kicks off today and continues through Sunday at Dress Barn locations nationwide. In its eighth-annual Send One...

Business Briefs Wed, Feb 24, 2010 | Leave a comment Local to ring NYSE bell The chairman of an Oklahoma City company that recently launched a pair of exchange-traded funds will ring the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange on Tuesday. Keith...

Oklahoma-brewed beers find growth going home Wed, Feb 24, 2010 | Leave a comment Visit a liquor store and you’re likely to find a variety of Oklahoma-brewed beers — from ales and ambers to lagers and stouts. Microbrewery presence in Oklahoma has stepped up in recent...

Business Briefs: Census job tests offered Wed, Feb 24, 2010 | Leave a comment Census job tests offered Testing for Oklahoma and Logan County positions with the Census 2010 will continue this weekend at Penn Square Mall. The census competency test is being offered Friday and...

Dream remains alive for Capitol Hill area Wed, Feb 24, 2010 | Leave a comment Give John Webb a moment and he’ll share a long list of dreams for Capitol Hill that ranges from an influx of artists studios and shops to the district becoming home to Sonic drive-ins...

Oklahoma Briefs: Franchise Hall of Fame adds Funk Tue, Feb 23, 2010 | Leave a comment Franchise Hall of Fame adds Funk Robert Funk, chief executive of Express Employment Professionals, was inducted into the International Franchise Association’s Hall of Fame this month. The...