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It’s good to be a toddler in Tulsa. According to data collected by bundle.com, parents in Tulsa spend 35 percent above the national average on their kids. For three years, the business website monitored spending by households with children at stores that sell toys, clothing and other services for kids. And Tulsa ranked No. 4 in the top-10 list, behind Minneapolis, Miami, Brooklyn and New York.

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In the immortal words of Roseanne Roseannadanna (a onetime Saturday Night Live character by Gilda Radner, for you Millennials and younger), it’s always something. Last week’s hullaballoo surrounding Chesapeake Energy involved taxes, G-men, a Seattle newspaper’s provocative photo selection, and a compressed natural gas filling station controversy.

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Oklahoma City, home of the first parking meter, is getting new parking meters that might crush the hopes and dreams of downtown drivers.

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What would Jesus do to calm an overzealous parishioner?

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Sunlight: the bane of bloodsucking children of the night and Oklahoma politicians.

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Bad news, Oklahoma City: You’re fat and reek of cigarette smoke.

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You've heard of the New York strip steak and the Kansas City strip. Well, meet their younger, party-ready brother: the Vegas strip.That's right, the crew at Oklahoma State University's Robert M. Ke

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Executives at Arista Nashville, the record label of country cutie Carrie Underwood, might be biting their nails after the Oklahoma native expressed an opinion at odds with her many in her conservative fan base.

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With gas prices on the rise and sky-rocketing air fares, folks itching to visit Dallas — God knows why, but you people probably have your reasons — might take note of a cheaper mode of transportation. Megabus.com, an express bus service, has added a route from Oklahoma City to Dallas with fares starting at just $1 each way.

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A couple of years ago, there was a story about a Croatian man who went swimming in the ocean before plopping down nude in a beach chair to relax. While the cool water had caused his testicles to shrink a bit and his tender bits slipped through the slats of the chair, the sun warmed them, causing them to expand and the man to become stuck, literally by his balls, in the chair. Emergency crews eventually rescued the trapped man.

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 Let the harumphing begin! Oklahoma's Republican leaders are weighing in on the U.S. Supreme Court's 5-4 ruling today upholding the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act. And — prepare to be shocked — they're not happy about it.

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Here is an unfair and unbalanced list of things not to do when running for political office:

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You know it’s a bad day as a public body when you ask if there are any attorneys who want to speak and the standing-room-only audience erupts in a lawyerly chorus of, “Yes! I do!” That’s what happened at the Oklahoma City Zoo Trust’s June 20 meeting, as it considered whether to give the contract for operation of the Zoo Amphitheatre to a new company.