February 5, 2025 archive

Former CEO named to Interior Department post

    The  former CEO of the Workforce & Technology COuncil, Leslie Beyer has been appointed to be part of the Trump administration in the job of Assistant Secretary of Land and Minerals Management at the U.S. Department of the Interior. Beyer led the Council from 2014 to 2023 and is considered to have played a …

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Watershed bill wins state House Committee approval

Rep. Mike Dobrinski, R-Okeene led approval Tuesday of a measure in committee to expand a program to eradicate harmful trees and shrubs in certain watersheds statewide. House Bill 2162 would create the Terry Peach Watershed Restoration Act. The act would build on  House Bill 2239 enacted in 2023, which created a pilot program focused on the North …

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