The Journal Record (Oklahoma City, OK), November 14, 2005, Monday

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The Journal Record (Oklahoma City, OK)

November 14, 2005 Monday

SECTION: NEWS

HEADLINE: OKC Street Talk: November 14, 2005

BYLINE: Journal Record Staff

BODY:
"Nothing is more expensive than cheap labor."
- Professor Vernon Briggs, a labor economist at Cornell University in New York, regarding how illegal workers are impacting Oklahoma's labor market.
"We're transitioning now from a licensing phase to an actual operational phase. There are things we're going to have to tackle as far as getting things ramped up. Like when you open a new store, you're going to have to do some things to open shop. So we're trying to be frugal, and we looked at it and we feel that we can do so with that 13.7 percent increase, to get ourselves off the ground floor."
- Oklahoma Space Industry Development Authority Executive Director Bill Khourie, on the agency's requested budget of $596,000 for 2007, when the first reusable spacecraft launches are expected to take place at Oklahoma's spaceport at Burns Flat.
"To err is human; to forgive is not company policy."
- Lt. Gov. Mary Fallin, speaking to members of the Oklahoma Business Ethics Consortium.
"If they put another million into it, that property would be worth $50 a square foot as soon as they complete it. That's a $4 million deal."
- Real estate broker Tom Waken, estimating the worth of the building at 1411 Classen Blvd. The Oklahoma Department of Corrections is considering selling the property, in view of the high cost of renovating the nearly 50-year-old building.