by Rachel Meinke | Mar 15, 2013 | Regional News, Water
The city of Norman recently passed an ordinance limiting the amount of phosphorus applied to lawns. This marks a first for an Oklahoma municipality to address phosphorus loading in a watershed. The Lake Thunderbird watershed overlaps various communities that surround...
by Rachel Meinke | Jan 28, 2013 | Transportation
A report reflecting federally funded projects in the Oklahoma City metropolitan area during federal fiscal year 2012 (Oct. 1, 2011 – Sept. 30, 2012) was recently completed by the Association of Central Oklahoma Governments (ACOG). Highway and transit projects were...
by Rachel Meinke | Oct 25, 2012 | Policy, Transportation
On Wednesday, October 17, the Senate Transportation Committee discussed an interim study at the request of Senator Cliff A. Aldridge of Midwest City. The hearing served to explore solutions to the outdated transportation infrastructure of eastern Oklahoma County. With...
by Rachel Meinke | Oct 3, 2012 | Transit, Transportation
In 2009, ACOG began a visioning process to determine the desire for expanded and enhanced regional public transportation. This “Regional Transit Dialogue” (RTD) brought together locally elected officials, policy stakeholders, private sector leaders and the general...
