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Tulsa Restaurant Equipment & Supply
The other day we needed some 8 oz. styrofoam bowls and lids to hold soup and mac-n-cheese for a fundraising lunch at school. It was too late to order from Amazon, and the item was too specialized to be available at the grocery store or a warehouse club. We only needed about 60-75, not a thousand.
Tulsa Restaurant Equipment & Supply, on the south side of 31st Street west of Mingo, is open to the general public as well as the pros and sells food service in quantities large and small. Individual sleeves of 50 styrofoam bowls and 100 matching lids were marked for sale, or you could buy the entire box of 1000. A "street view" type virtual experience gives you a preview of what they have in stock. There are pots and pans, pizza paddles, plastic cups, flatware, fry baskets, wire storage racks in kits to assemble yourselves, all types of takeout containers. Glad to know they're there. Open 8 am - 6 pm Mon - Fri; 9 am - 4 pm Sat, closed Sun.
Zomi USA: How a City in Oklahoma Became Home for an Ethnic Group from Southeast Asia
"The Zomis arrival to Tulsa dates back to the 1970s, and many in the Tulsa Zomi community point to Chin Do Kham as the catalyst. Kham, who died in 2013 from a heart attack..., came to Tulsa to study and graduated from Oral Roberts University.... Over the years, more and more Zomi arrived at Kham's behest and with his help.
"The Zomi population numbered about 50 in the late 1990s in Tulsa, with most studying in the city, according to TaangGo Khup, general secretary for Zomi Innkuan USA, a Tulsa-based organization founded to foster community development and support families and family members still in Myanmar, also known as Burma....
"At Jenks Public Schools, where a large number of Zomi children are enrolled, the focus is on trying to integrate the students and parents into the American education system as best as possible, said Jennifer Daves, coordinator for the district's English language development program. The district started seeing a surge in Zomi and Burmese students around 2009, Daves said.
"The population of Zomi and Burmese students continues to increase each year at Jenks, doubling from 413 in 2013 to 984 currently."
Tulsa is getting a fancy new park that residents can feel smug about - The Lost Ogle
OKC blog rates OKC's new Scissortail Park uninspiring compared to Tulsa's The Gathering Place, but also shares a bit of childhood park nostalgia.
"I grew up in Midwest City, and the coolest thing we had at Regional Park back then was a metal rocketship that baked you like an oven and had filthy graffiti scrawled all over the inside."
I remember that rocketship fondly. It was across the street from my aunt's apartment, and it resembled the USS Enterprise, with the main saucer and two engine pods. The biggest problem with it was that it was too popular and crowded, so you couldn't really reenact Star Trek episodes in it.
Bill Hader and Rachel Bilson on Coffee Date in His Hometown
I'm just disappointed that Hader chose the Utica Square Starbucks, out of all the options in this great coffee town. Next time he should ask Carrie Brownstein to recommend a Tulsa coffee house.
The Art of Being a Red State Liberal -- Strong Towns
"When you're in the minority, success is measured in inches. It's not for the faint of heart. You have to be able to care and fight and lose, and somehow summon the hope to continue caring and fighting and losing, over and over again. Until, eventually, maybe you win, just a little bit.
"But you'll never win if you don't respect the people who disagree with you."
Good advice for conservatives, too. And yes, Sarah Kobos is as gracious in conversation as she comes across in this essay.
Dear Tulsa - Beth Knight - Medium
"The Tulsa tech community has created this unique magic and it's something that needs to be noticed and fostered.
"I left Tulsa because I had exhausted the online resources, such as Team Treehouse and Bloc, and I did not want to pursue another four year degree. Wassim Metallaoui told me that a program in Denver called Turing could take me from a dabbler to a real software developer. It was an exhausting seven month program, but I did it. I found a job in Boulder that I will be starting this week and it's all roses. But I believe there should have been an option like this for me in Tulsa. Tulsa has a lower cost of living and a much more actively engaged programming community. Right now, the most difficult part of hiring a junior programmer is finding a company with a mentorship program in place. There is a rough 3 month on boarding process, but after that you have a fairly decent programmer. After a year of working they're considered mid level. The ramp up time is rough but it is brief. Maybe it needs to be subsidized by someone, I don't know. But it's not long to turn someone from a dabbler into a developer....
"Right now bootcamps all over the nation are shutting down because there is a glut of junior developers in the market. But not in Tulsa. Tulsa is a place where people are committed to their community and will do whatever it takes to see it thrive. This is my plea to companies to set up these junior positions and the city to bring in the bootcamps to retrain people. It's doable. I am doing it. I was not able to pursue this dream in Tulsa because the opportunity was not there, but it can be. I don't know how to fix the educational or transportation system, but I do know how to bring in more skilled labor. And when you have skilled labor, the companies follow."
My comment: Tulsa Technology Center and Tulsa Community College are rolling in taxpayer dollars, thanks to their dedicated slices of our property taxes. This is exactly the sort of program they ought to offer. Skills-focused training is why they exist.
10 British Things About Tulsa, OK | Anglophenia | BBC America
Things U.K., the White Lion pub, Scotfest, and cricket and rugby clubs are on the list.
Tulsa Police Department live calls, mapped.
Daily chart: Urban ideologies | The Economist
Of 67 American cities with a population of more than a quarter-million people, Tulsa and Oklahoma are two of the 13 ranked right-of-center. In order:
Mesa, AZ
Oklahoma City, OK
Virginia Beach, VA
Colorado Springs, CO
Jacksonville, FL
Arlington, TX
Anaheim, CA
Omaha, NE
Tulsa, OK
Aurora, CO
Anchorage, AK
Fort Worth, TX
The ten most liberal: San Francisco, Washington DC, Seattle, Oakland, Boston, Minneapolis, Detroit, New York, Buffalo, Baltimore.
The graphic is an extract from a March 2014 study of studies called Representation in Municipal Government by Chris Tausanovitch of UCLA and Christopher Warshaw of MIT, examining "whether city policies are actually responsive to the views of their citizens" by moving in the direction of the views of their citizens. The analysis is of cities, not metropolitan areas; thus Arlington, Texas, Mesa, Arizona, and Anaheim, California, are considered separately from DFW, Phoenix, and Los Angeles.
"However, unlike at the state and national level, we find scant evidence that differences in municipal political institutions affect representation. Neither the choice of mayor versus city council government, partisan or non-partisan elections, the availability of ballot measures, whether or not elected officials face term limits, or whether there are at-large or districted elections seem to affect the strength of the relationship between public policy preferences and city policies."
Regulatory Floodplain Map Atlas - The City of Tulsa Online
Maps showing FEMA and City of Tulsa floodplains in 3 mile by 3 mile sections.
