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      <title><![CDATA[City's News ]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Bair-ly on the Job. Longtime Tulsa World executive John Bair has resigned after serving fewer than three months as publisher.

Taking over the role is an outsider, Bill Masterson Jr., hired by Warren Buffett's BH Media Group in May from an executive position based in Indiana with newspaper publishin...]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 12 Jun 2013 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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      <title><![CDATA[No Shelter | Seeking cover during a tornado? You're on your own.]]></title>
      <link>http://www.urbantulsa.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=61077</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Since I've been with the emergency management office now almost 15 years, we've never had public tornado shelters," Roger Jolliff told the Tulsa City Council.

In the aftermath of the destruction in Moore and elsewhere in the state, Jolliff, director of the Tulsa Area Emergency Management Agency, ha... By Jaime Adame.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 12 Jun 2013 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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      <title><![CDATA[Medicaid Mess | Defining MedicaidProgram helps, but many working adults left out]]></title>
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In the last five years, the number of Oklahomans receiving health care help through Medicaid has increased by almost one-third.

Just over 1 million were listed as enrolled in what's known as SoonerCare or Insure Oklahoma for the 12-month period beginning July 2011.

"It's not been this hu... By Jaime Adame.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 05 Jun 2013 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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      <title><![CDATA[Stranger than Fiction | Silence over Tulsa World editor doing digging for CEO]]></title>
      <link>http://www.urbantulsa.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=60833</link>
      <description><![CDATA[The email came to David Rutkauskas not even a week before his company filed the lawsuit.

Ziva Branstetter, the Tulsa World's enterprise editor and star investigative reporter, sent Rutkauskas a complete report on the background of Sean P. Kelly, a frequent critic of Rutkauskas and the company Rutka... By Jaime Adame.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 05 Jun 2013 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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      <title><![CDATA[The Meaning of Change | Effort to erase Brady name influenced by Memphis movement]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[In Memphis, about 63 percent of the population is African-American, according to the 2010 U.S. Census. Compared to other cities of a similar size, it's considered one of the poorest.

And so while the long shadow of racial injustice fueled an effort there to rename three city parks previously named... By Jaime Adame.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 05 Jun 2013 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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      <title><![CDATA[City's News ]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Three's a Crowd. "I love elections," said Dewey Bartlett. What else is Tulsa's mayor going to say in front of a room full of voters?

It was just a few minutes after 8am on May 9, a breakfast-time public forum featuring all three leading candidates.

Fast forward a month or so, and it's fair to wond...]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 05 Jun 2013 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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      <title><![CDATA[Paving the Way | City seeks preventative street maintenance funding]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[After major street repairs, then what?

City streets leaders and now Mayor Dewey Bartlett increasingly have become focused on preventative maintenance, an effort to lengthen the life as much as possible of streets that have undergone major -- and costly -- repair projects.

"We are now starting to u... By Jaime Adame.]]></description>
      <category>News/City, State, County, Education</category>
      <pubDate>Wed, 29 May 2013 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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      <title><![CDATA[Prepared to Help | OU-Tulsa's disaster medicine aided Moore efforts]]></title>
      <link>http://www.urbantulsa.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=60567</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Bill Justice got the word and acted quickly.

"I was actually speaking at a conference in Dallas when I got the alert. 'Hey, it is hitting and it is going to be big.' I immediately headed back over here," said Justice, assistant director for prehospital and disaster medicine in the University of Okl... By Jaime Adame.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 29 May 2013 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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      <title><![CDATA[A Shock to the System | Health care changing, OU-Tulsa president says]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[It just really kind of hit me yesterday," said Dr. Gerard Clancy.

The president of the University of Oklahoma-Tulsa had clocked in some hours at the Wayman Tisdale Specialty Health Center, putting to direct use his medical training and expertise in psychiatry.

"Everybody I saw was uninsured. Every... By Jaime Adame.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 29 May 2013 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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      <description><![CDATA[Please Visit the ____ Arts District. It may be a first step towards a new street name and a different brand name for a vibrant part of Tulsa's downtown.

"I would guess that a lot of things named 'Brady' today won't be named 'Brady' next year," said Tulsa City Councilor Blake Ewing.

Applause from t...]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 29 May 2013 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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      <title><![CDATA[Christiansen's Aviation Hesitation | Possible conflict of interest brewing]]></title>
      <link>http://www.urbantulsa.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=60257</link>
      <description><![CDATA[By most accounts, Tulsa's main airport isn't flying high.

As noted this month by bonds rating agency Moody's, boardings at Tulsa International Airport have decreased for nearly five straight years.

It's also not cheap to fly out of Tulsa, at least when viewed per mile of travel. "Southwest has alm... By Jaime Adame.]]></description>
      <category>News/City, State, County, Education</category>
      <pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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      <title><![CDATA[Log-in Leverage | City hall supercomputer excites researchers]]></title>
      <link>http://www.urbantulsa.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=60256</link>
      <description><![CDATA[There's a certain amount of pressure felt by every academic researcher.

"We've gotten a lot of attention from outside sources for our work," said Peter LoPresti. He's referring to collaboration with Hazem Refai on projects to improve wireless communications -- especially during natural disasters or... By Jaime Adame.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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      <title><![CDATA[Not-So-Rapid Deployment | Tulsa Police Chief Chuck Jordan talks manpower]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Tulsa Police Chief Chuck Jordan became a police officer in 1969. Part of his career involved work in one of the department's street crimes units.

"I ran one for eight years," Jordan said.

When other officers stay busy out on the street working patrols or responding to calls for help, those in a st... By Jaime Adame.]]></description>
      <category>News/City, State, County, Education</category>
      <pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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      <title><![CDATA[Acceptable Waste | Permanent site pushed for hazardous chemicals]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Twice a year in Tulsa, the cars line up. Trunks and backseats are filled with cans of old paint, batteries of all kinds, and lots of chemicals considered too hazardous to be discarded with household trash.

"You can save things and then take them all at once and be done with them. I like that," said... By Jaime Adame.]]></description>
      <category>News/City, State, County, Education</category>
      <pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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      <title><![CDATA[To Good Health | City aggressively seeks to cut workers' comp costs]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Legislation alone won't solve this city problem.

Workers' compensation cost for the city totaled more than $27 million from 2008-2010.

But while recently passed reform at the state level will make sweeping changes to the way claims are handled, there's a reason Mayor Dewey Bartlett made it a point... By Jaime Adame.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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