When U.S. Sen. Markwayne Mullin travels the country, people commonly ask him about the perceived constant discord in Congress. To Mullin, it’s the nature of the beast. “Government was never designed for us to get along,” he said. “Our founding fathers did not set up Washington D.C. for a group of people to all get along and make more»

The Tulsa Regional Chamber’s most recent Manufacturers’ Council meeting began with a surprise.

The Council presented Neosource President Bill Graif with a lifetime achievement award for his longstanding leadership in the manufacturing and aerospace fields, and for his philanthropic work locally and in Ghana.

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When local Fortune 500 company ONEOK formed an executive committee to develop a strategic acquisition framework, the committee assembled a list of companies it believed would maximize ONEOK’s potential and sustainability. “Magellan was the one that kept coming to the top for several reasons,” said Pierce Norton II, president and CEO of more»

Nearly 13,000 housing units are needed over the next 10 years to meet demand and support equitable growth for Tulsans. That was the message conveyed Monday by PartnerTulsa Executive Director Kian Kamas. Alongside Casey Stowe, PartnerTulsa’s senior vice president of finance and real estate, and the Zarrow Family Foundations’ Bill Major, Kamas more»

Attendees crunched case studies during a working lunch at the Tulsa Regional Chamber’s first HR Forum of the year March 13 in the Saint Francis Health System Room. A group of about 30 human resources professionals also learned about Chamber workforce programs and heard updates about legislation that would affect businesses. Led by Rue Ramsey, vice more»

The Tulsa Regional Chamber has announced a change in its economic development personnel. Arthur Jackson, the Chamber’s senior vice president of economic development, has resigned his position. His last day with the Chamber will be April 1. “I am grateful for my time with the Tulsa Regional Chamber and the opportunities it has provided,” more»

Funding and how to find it dominated a roundtable discussion at the Tulsa Regional Chamber’s first Technology Council meeting of the year at the Vast Bank building. The conversation starter for the March 6 meeting, sponsored by OU-Tulsa, was a council survey showing that the primary challenges of operating in the local tech ecosystem were funding and more»

When Webco Industries was struggling in the early 1980s, owner F. William (Bill) Weber met with an under-performing engineer he planned to terminate. During the one-on-one, however, he learned that the employee’s wife had been diagnosed with a brain stem tumor and needed life-saving treatment. So, instead of firing the engineer, Weber gave him six more»