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Oklahoma Spending Half of What CDC Recommends on Tobacco Prevention, Fourth-Best in U.S.
Oklahoma is spending more on tobacco prevention. State spending this fiscal year is $21.3 million, up more than 12 percent from last year. Oklahoma ranks fourth in the U.S. for percentage of tobacco prevention funding recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. "Even at that, it’s still only spending about half of what the CDC recommends that the state spends on tobacco prevention. So, there’s still room for improvement even though it’s doing better than most states," said...
Study Will Look at How Tulsa Firefighters' Physical Ability Test Relates to On-The-Job Injuries
University of Tulsa researchers and the Tulsa Fire Department want to know whether firefighters’ annual physical ability test can predict and prevent injuries. Over three years, they’ll look at whether scores on job-specific tests like stair climbs, hose drags and dummy rescues are predictors of injuries and how they relate to laboratory measures of fitness. "Is it heavily correlated or associated with anaerobic and aerobic fitness, or strength and power — whole-body strength and power —...
The Education Department Is Canceling $150 Million Of Student Loan Debt
The U.S. Department of Education is sending emails to about 15,000 people across the country telling them: You've got money. These are former students — and some parents of students — who took out loans for colleges that shut down between Nov. 1, 2013, and Dec. 4, 2018. About half attended campuses run by Corinthian Colleges . They will get their money back or have their debt forgiven — an amount estimated at $150 million, all told — under a provision called Automatic Closed School Discharge....
Winter Arrives on All This Jazz
Dig the next All This Jazz, beginning at 9pm on Saturday the 15th, right here on Public Radio 89.5 KWGS...and online via our "Listen Live" stream at PublicRadioTulsa.org . The program delivers three hours of recent and classic jazz music, across a range of styles, each and every Saturday night, from 9 o'clock till midnight. (We also offer a 7pm re-airing of ATJ on Sunday evenings, on Jazz 89.5-2, which is Public Radio Tulsa's all-jazz HD Radio channel.) From Chico Hamilton to Chico Freeman,...
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