Governor Mary Fallin Friday signed House Bill 1999 ending the prohibition on horse meat processing for export in Oklahoma. Forty-six states, not including Oklahoma, currently allow horsemeat processing.
“In Oklahoma – as in other states – abuse is tragically common among horses that are reaching the end of their natural lives. Many horses are abandoned or left to starve to death. Others are shipped out of the country, many to Mexico, where they are processed in potentially inhumane conditions that are not regulated by the U.S. government.
Sources in the Syrian opposition said on Saturday that a ship carrying Iranian arms sailing under a Tanzanian flag was in the Red Sea on its way to deliver weapons to forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar Assad, Saudi media outlet Al-Arabiya reported.
[Updated 4/2] Defeated Tulsa Democrat Dan Arthrell was caught “snooping” in Representative Katie Henke’s capital office – an office he repeatedly tried to win over three recent elections. Henke, a Republican, won in the final battle by over 900 votes.
Tulsa County will re-open the north entrance to the Courthouse tomorrow, March 28, 2013, marking the completion of Phase I improvements to the Tulsa County Courthouse Complex. The entrance has been under renovation since the opening of the new east entrance in late 2012. The improvements where funded by the 4-to-Fix-the-County II capital improvements program, which was approved by Tulsa County voters in 2005.
Tulsa ranked fourth on a recent survey of top 10 list of “Best Cities for Banking” with banks that pay a much higher interest rate than in other regions of the United States. Tulsa also has a relatively high diversity of banking institutions and no bank or credit union failures since 2009 according to NerdWallet.