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After being deferred in June, Shawnee City Commissioners this month OK’d a request by The Tiny Homes Foundation to secure a handful of city properties to add affordable housing to the area.

President Donald Trump’s budget bill brings stricter rules to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, the federal food assistance program, and shifts costs to states, putting an estimated 131,000 Oklahomans at risk of losing food benefits. That’s about one-sixth of the 686,800 SNAP users in Oklahoma, which includes 255,000 children and 68,000 seniors.

Seminole State College’s Director of Community Relations Kim Pringle was recently elected President of the Oklahoma College Public Relations Association (OCPRA) during the organization’s monthly board meeting on July 15. Pringle, who has served on the OCPRA Board for the past four years, will now lead the statewide organization that supports marketing and communications professionals at colleges and universities across Oklahoma.

After being deferred in June, an ordinance establishing regulations for vacant buildings was approved by Shawnee City Commissioners this month, which will require the registration of vacant structures, as well as setting guidelines for reporting, maintenance and securing those buildings. City Attorney Joe Vorndran outlined the creation of Article 17 in Chapter 7 (Buildings and Building Regulations) of the Shawnee City Code.

WASHINGTON– Despite recommending the restoration of nearly $1.3 billion in previously threatened funds, a spending plan prepared by a House appropriations subcommittee would still cut $380 million from the budget of NOAA– jeopardizing key weather and climate programs even as it backed away from deeper reductions sought by the Trump administration. The outcome of that discussion could be critical for the University of Oklahoma and hundreds of its employees.

Ben Little, Native American-Serving Nontribal Institutions (NASNTI) Student Success Specialist, and Alecia Bailey, NASNTI Computer Science Specialist at Seminole State College, attend the 1st annual Ready Inspire Conference hosted by Ready Education in Orlando, Fla., July 7-9. The conference brought together higher education professionals from across the U.S.

More than six months after the convicted killer of a Tecumseh police officer died while imprisoned on Oklahoma's death row, the medical examiner has ruled on his cause of death as natural with several medical factors.