Quick summary of today’s news articles (Full text of articles follows):
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January 26, 2012
- Oklahoma City’s economic development leadership is basking in the promise of more than 800 engineering and program support jobs from the Boeing Co., but they’re also keenly aware of the painful lesson Wichita, Kan., recently learned. (The Journal Record)
- Oklahoma City officials are likely to consider by next fall an incentives package to Boeing for an anticipated 800 to 900 jobs being relocated from Wichita, Kan. (Oklahoma Gazette)
- Growing membership and pushing a narrow state legislative agenda are two goals for T. Hastings Siegfried, chairman-elect of The State Chamber of Oklahoma. Siegfried, Nordam’s vice chairman and chief operating officer, takes the reins from current chairman Bill Burgess this summer. (The Journal Record)
- AMR Corp., the parent of American Airlines, proposes to hire nine advisers and consultants at rates ranging to $1,365 per hour to assist in the company’s bankruptcy restructuring, court documents show. The consultants include tax advisers, labor consultants, auditors, special aircraft counsel, employee benefits advisers and management consultants, court filings say. (Tulsa World)
- The Transport Workers Union, which has objected to the hiring of labor consultant Bain & Co. in the bankruptcy case of American Airlines parent AMR Corp., will picket former Bain executive and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, union officials said Monday. (Tulsa World)
- The House plans to consider a short-term funding bill for the Federal Aviation Administration on Tuesday that lawmakers, airline-industry officials and labor leaders expect could quickly pave the way to multiyear funding for the agency. (The Wall Street Journal)
- Turnover of top executives at the Federal Aviation Administration has led to a lack of institutional knowledge at the agency, said Toni Trombecky, a 31 year veteran of the agency serving out her final months there. (FierceGovernmentIT)
- Gov. Mary Fallin told 40 elementary school children and a couple dozen aerospace officials on Tuesday that Oklahoma’s aerospace industry needs talented science, technology, engineering and mathematics students. (Tulsa World)
