Longtime Oklahoma City residents in their 30s or older might have a section of their brain permanently scarred by the TV commercials of Trust House Investment Jewelers.

It’s not as if President Obama and Oklahoma’s Republican lawmakers have been exactly chummy, but the White House’s rejection of a proposed oil pipeline connecting Canada to Texas has state politicians forgetting everything they might have learned in Anger Management 101.

Everybody hates OKC, at least according to a ranking of least-liked cities by The Atlantic.

Last week marked the deadline for bill introduction in the Oklahoma Legislature and, as a public service, your civics-minded CFN monkeys have compiled the most interesting measures (based on CFN’s rigorously tested method for calculating interestingness).

While Oklahoma City’s own Flaming Lips made some headlines last fall by releasing a 24-hour-long song, the current issue of Wired magazine isn’t so impressed — even if the track was released, in part, inside an actual human skull.

Efforts to combat methamphetamine abuse in Oklahoma already have resulted in restrictions on the sale of pseudoephedrine, a chief ingredient in meth. Now, some in the state law enforcement community are hoping to take that battle a step further by making the medicine a Schedule III drug.

The Oklahoma Ethics Commission has sent a recommendation to the state Legislature that it be removed from oversight of local elections and the laws governing such elections be scrapped and rewritten.

They say you can’t fight city hall — but perhaps that doesn’t apply if city hall is fighting city hall.

The Oklahoma Ethics Commission declined at its special Jan. 12 meeting to send to the Legislature proposed changes to the laws governing local elections and campaign finance disclosure.

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.

A dimly lit warehouse in southwest Oklahoma City is reminiscent of the closing scene in “Raiders of the Lost Ark,” in which the Ark of the Covenant is boxed away and tucked among a never-ending trove of government secrets.