Streetcar for the car-free

40,000 people in OKC have no access to a car.

Commentary
Blair Humphreys
More than 40,000 Oklahoma City residents did not have to worry about snowcovered roads impacting their drive to work after the recent snowstorms. That is because more than 40,000 Oklahoma City residents live in households without access to a single car.

Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Offtrack

Letters to the Editor
Randy Burghart
Blair Humphreys (Commentary, “Streetcar for the car-free,” Feb. 16, Gazette) is using bait-and-switch tactics! He is trying to get support of the rail system by saying it is going to serve the poor and impoverished.

Wednesday, March 9, 2011

Transit should be a priority

It is very difficult to have uncontrolled growth and a cost-efficient and effective transit system.

Commentary
Rick Cain
Recently, the Brookings Institute, a Washington, D.C.,-based think tank, issued a report that ranked the Oklahoma City area 84th out of 100 metropolitan areas in regard to serving its workforce transit needs.

Wednesday, June 1, 2011

Earth power

Thanks to incentive programs, residential geothermal heat pumps are now viable options for metro homeowners.

Features
Brendan Hoover
When Victoria Caldwell’s home was struck by lightning on Memorial Day weekend 2010, she faced the challenge of replacing her entire HVAC system.

Wednesday, July 27, 2011

All systems go?

OKC is not out any money, says City Manager Jim Couch, in an incomplete public safety project nearly six years behind schedule.

News
Clifton Adcock
Despite years-long delays on implementing police and municipal court electronic records systems, Oklahoma City Manager Jim Couch said the city is still on budget for the projects.

Monday, October 15, 2012

West of Memphis

The documentary chronicles a shocking and sickening miscarriage of justice.

Documentary
Phil Bacharach
Critics of our criminal justice system don’t have to search far for nightmare scenarios of wrongful convictions. From cases of false confessions to exonerations through DNA testing, the past few decades are rife with tales of injustice that would give even Kafka the willies.

Wednesday, March 13, 2013