This past Saturday night Taylor Treat, 21, was crowned Miss Oklahoma at the Mabee Center in Tulsa. She beat out 41 contestants to win Oklahoma’s pageant.

Clay Clark, a Tulsa naitive and Proud Republican wants to run for Tulsa’s top spot. He wants to take out Kathy Taylor to be the next Mayor of Tulsa. He says he wants to promote conservative principles in a conservative town. Go get ‘em Clay.

The BOK Center declared that Rod Stewart will be performing on 9/20 as part of a “limited” tour this summer. Tickets will be on sale 10 AM on May 11th.

McKinney, Texas based Liberty National Life Insurance is opening a branch in Tulsa and plans to hire more than a hundred sales agents and sales management employees. Take that recession!

That’s right. Tulsa has now claimed the top spot on the 2009 Relocate America’s top 100 cities to relocate to.

OK State higher education regents approved a “School of Rock” degree program Thursday for the University of Central Oklahoma. Now only if Jack Black taught there…

Even though the economy is tough, South Tulsa is seeing no slowing down of the construction of luxury apartments.

Many of the Tulsa crime rates were down in 2008 including auto theft, rape (-15.7%), homicide (-14.5%), burglaries (-1.7%). Unfortunately, a few actually rose this past year: aggravated assaults (+11%), robberies (+7.1%), and larcenies (+1.7%).

At least the more violent crimes were down for the Tulsa metro.

Looks like Dippin’ Dots is expanding in Tulsa.
“Our goal is to do as many outside sales as possible – fundraisers, catering, corporate events … anything fun,” said Ryan Hausher, a franchise industry and corporate American veteran. “I’d like to take the three franchise locations that I have now and develop an attraction in each area where Dippin’ Dots is the go-to company when you want to raise money.”

Ex-Presidents Coming To Tulsa to help raise money for the Salvation Army. I wonder how much they charge for such a thing.