News
Clifton Adcock
Oklahoma City is likely to see rising revenues and continued economic recovery, experts told the City Council Tuesday.
Tuesday 21 May
OKG Newsletter
Topic: jim couch
Experts: OKC in good shape for continued economic recovery
Double-dip recession unlikely
News
Clifton Adcock
Oklahoma City is likely to see rising revenues and continued economic recovery, experts told the City Council Tuesday.
Sprawl, y'all
Metro residents are invited to attend a public meeting on urban sprawl.
News
Gazette staff
Sprawl is defined by Merriam-Webster as “an irregularly spread or scattered group or mass.” Urban sprawl’s characteristics include remote housing subdivisions jam-packed with cookie-cutter homes, homogenous strip malls for recreational shopping, and unhealthy fast-food chains.
Sprawled out
When bigger isn’t better: City officials consider sprawl’s burden on municipal functions.
News
Clifton Adcock
Urban sprawl is one of the biggest challenges facing Oklahoma City, Ward 2 City Councilman Ed Shadid said at a Sept. 6 community meeting held on the issue.
Great times for OKC
Letters to the Editor
Sandy Meyers
To live in Oklahoma City today is exciting. The approval by the Oklahoma City Council to restructure Centennial Plaza or Civic Center park is a great gift to all of us. Making this prominent property a spectacular centerpiece for the arts and civic affairs gives us all a feeling of pride and excitement.
Supply and demand
No longer a shady practice, ticket scalping got the A-OK from City Council.
News
Clifton Adcock
The Oklahoma City Council voted unanimously last week to repeal a 30-year-old ordinance capping the amount one can legally charge for an event ticket, while also creating a ticket-scalper buffer zone around Chesapeake Energy Arena.
Water war
Stakes are big in the battle over water rights.
News
Clifton Adcock
The rain came down so hard, it resembled waves crashing outside the floor-to-ceiling windows on the third floor of the Oklahoma City University Meinders School of Business building.
Puff-less parks
News
Clifton Adcock
The Oklahoma City Council unanimously passed a resolution last week to discourage smoking in public parks and directing city staff to develop tobacco-free signage.
Positive predicament
City leaders ponder what to do with an extra $1.3 million in the budget.
News
Clifton Adcock
The Oklahoma City Council is considering what to do with a projected extra $1.3 million in next year’s budget.
It’s all happening at the Zoo
CFN
Gazette staff
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.
Municipal money
More than 220 OKC employees earn more than $100,000 annually.
News
Jerry Bohnen
Salaries on parade: It’s one of the more popular issues of Parade magazine, listing the salaries of people around the country.
