Challengers in Oklahoma City Council races discuss online photos
Photos in revealing poses, of Confederate flags
Death of a Sooner
The shocking death of Austin Box raises awareness about athletes on painkillers.
'Mo' money
A group running candidate attack ads is receiving indirect funding from the OKC Chamber.
Kern: ‘I am not a racist’
Fighting back tears, Rep. Sally Kern denied being a bigot and called ‘reverse discrimination’ the ‘elephant in the room’
Picture of horror
A century later, the photograph of an Oklahoma lynching still resonates.
'The new normal'
With an ongoing budget shortfall, the state Department of Education zeroed out funding for National Board Certified Teachers
‘Stoning’ Sally
In Sally Kern’s forthcoming tome, the Republican lawmaker describes bloggers, activists and media casting verbal stones.
Rep. Kern clarifies science education bill, denies it endorses religion
Opponents claim it backs intelligent design
OU linebacker Austin Box dies
Details of death still not yet released
Citing financial projections, The Oklahoman terminates 46 positions
Those affected by the layoffs were notified Wednesday morning.
Tuesday 22 May
OKG Newsletter
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Head of the class
A handful of OKC-area schools make Newsweek’s list of top high schools in the nation.
News
Gazette staff
Several Oklahoma City metro schools were named by Newsweek as among the 1,000 best high schools in the country.
Zoo brouhaha
A possible open records violation delays a change in management for the OKC Zoo Amphitheatre.
News
Clifton Adcock
A proposal to turn over management of the Oklahoma City Zoo Amphitheatre to a new company was tabled at the last minute over concerns about a possible violation of the state Open Records Act.
It’s a gusher!
CFN
Gazette staff
Is what started as an explosive news story about Chesapeake Energy CEO Aubrey McClendon turning into a slow-motion train wreck?
Tribe Jibe
CFN
Gazette staff
Racial stereotypes muck things up when we least expect it, like in the recent kerfuffle about whether blondhaired, blue-eyed Elizabeth Warren, the Democratic U.S. Senate candidate in Massachusetts, is Native American.
Capital punishment conundrum
CFN
Gazette staff
It’s become more difficult for the state corrections department to execute executions.
Meep, meep
CFN
Gazette staff
If we could anthropomorphize pseudoephedrine, a key ingredient in both allergy medicines and methamphetamine, we think it might be the Road Runner in the old Looney Tunes cartoons.
Agent of Shields
CFN
Gazette staff
One local drama teacher recently won a cameo in a Brooke Shields movie. (Brooke Shields is still making movies?)
Keep it local
CFN
Gazette staff
You know that desperate feeling when you’re reduced to calling a 911 operator for sexy talk?
An evolution of pride
The city’s annual celebration of gay pride expands beyond its historically LGBT-friendly borders.
News
James Cooper
For its 25th anniversary celebration, the OKC Pride Parade will follow its traditional parade route, kicking off at Memorial Park on N.W. 36th Street and Classen and concluding on “The Strip,” the area on N.W. 39th between Pennsylvania and May avenues historically associated with the city’s LGBT community.
Promises kept
It’s the 20th anniversary for a state program that has enabled thousands of Oklahomans to pursue a college education.
News
Mia Cantu
In 1992, Jacqueline Smith signed up for a program with the unwieldy name of Oklahoma’s Higher Learning Access Program, or OHLAP. For qualifying students, it guaranteed full tuition to any of the state’s public universities or colleges or partial tuition to private establishments.
On rotation
New construction at the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation includes on-site power generation.
News
Peter Wright
The medical significance of the helix can’t be lost on anyone who knows about DNA, but the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation is putting the shape to use in an unusual way.
Seeking answers
News
Nicole Hill
The big, block letters and hand-drawn peace sign of Kirsten Hatfield’s final second-grade project and the images of her stark, empty bedroom make for a jarring juxtaposition.
Pedal power
Get on that bike and ride! Around downtown, that is.
News
Clifton Adcock
As Queen’s Freddie Mercury once put it, if Jaws was never your scene and you don’t like Star Wars ... there’s always the option of riding a bicycle in downtown Oklahoma City, which is going to get a little easier after Friday.
Water wait
A task force hopes to resolve a legal battle over water rights pitting two American Indian tribes against city and state officials.
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Clifton Adcock
Mary Fallin, water, water rights, Chickasaw Nation, Choctaw Nation, Sardis, OKC, Oklahoma legislature, politics, Aubrey McClendon, Oklahoma City
