Good morning, Oklahoma!
Here’s what you need to know today:
🌞 Temperature check: Mostly cloudy but nice with some sun and a high of 82 degrees. Temperatures will fall to about 65 degrees overnight.
📅 Today in History: In 1838, renowned abolitionist leader Frederick Douglass escaped from slavery to freedom. Disguised as a sailor and carrying borrowed freedom papers, Douglass – born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey – traveled from Maryland by train, ferry and on foot to New York City and freedom in less than 24 hours.
News you can use 📰
- 💲 NE OKC center celebrates grand reopening amid community budget concerns
- 🏡 How OU architecture students helped build a greenhouse in downtown OK C
- 🏈 Mike Gundy not pleased with OSU’s run game heading into Arkansas game
If you only read one thing today:
Paycom doubles its workforce despite pandemic, expands headquarters
One of the first fully online human resources and payroll technology software companies, Paycom has managed to nearly double its workforce during the past five years despite the pandemic and recent high interest rates and is now expanding its local headquarters.