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Tulsa Voters Will Soon Consider a $415 Million Bond for TPS

Public Radio Tulsa | By Rich Fisher
Published February 26, 2015 at 4:32 PM CST
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On Tuesday, March 3rd, the citizens of Tulsa will vote on a $415 million bond for Tulsa Public Schools. This bond -- which would not raise taxes -- is focused on four areas: facilities and classrooms, books and classroom technology, transportation, and libraries. As we learn on today's show, the bond is part of TPS's 20-year capital improvement plan to transform and expand aging facilities while also making schools safer throughout the district. Our guest is Bob LaBass, Director of Bond Projects and Energy Management for TPS, who speaks in detail about what Tulsa voters will be considering when they go to the polls on Tuesday of next week. Also on our program today, commentator Mark Darrah has some interesting biographical tidbits to share about the man who lost the White House to Warren G. Harding in 1920, James M. Cox. (Ever heard of, say, Cox Communications?)

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Rich Fisher
Rich Fisher passed through KWGS about thirty years ago, and just never left. Today, he is the general manager of Public Radio Tulsa, and the host of KWGS’s public affairs program, StudioTulsa, which celebrated its twentieth anniversary in August 2012 . As host of StudioTulsa, Rich has conducted roughly four thousand long-form interviews with local, national, and international figures in the arts, humanities, sciences, and government. Very few interviews have gone smoothly. Despite this, he has been honored for his work by several organizations including the Governor's Arts Award for Media by the State Arts Council, a Harwelden Award from the Arts & Humanities Council of Tulsa, and was named one of the “99 Great Things About Oklahoma” in 2000 by Oklahoma Today magazine.
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