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Clifton Adcock
A major downtown streetscape project is being reduced in scope because of revenue shortfalls in the funding plan and cost overruns, city officials said, dropping E.K. Gaylord Boulevard off the project list.
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Trimmed TIF
Planners are looking for savings on Project 180.
News
Clifton Adcock
A major downtown streetscape project is being reduced in scope because of revenue shortfalls in the funding plan and cost overruns, city officials said, dropping E.K. Gaylord Boulevard off the project list.
Isn't it ironic
‘Speaking truth to power’
Letters to the Editor
David Nickell
The first installment of James Cooper’s powerful cover story about the emergence of the LGBT community in Oklahoma City (“From closet to community,” Nov. 2, Oklahoma Gazette) is a reminder that social progress more often results from reactions of brave individuals willing to risk all than well-thought-out plans.
Standing trial
A judge ruled state Rep. Randy Terrill and former Democratic Sen. Debbe Leftwich should be tried on bribery charges.
News
Clifton Adcock
A judge ruled that there was enough evidence for state Rep. Randy Terrill, R-Moore, and former Democratic Sen. Debbe Leftwich to stand trial. The preliminary hearing that wrapped up Nov. 4 began Oct. 31 and ran through most of the week.
Settlement pending
Maps, millions and management comprise terms of Chesapeake’s legal settlement.
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Clifton Adcock
Chesapeake Energy has agreed to settle a lawsuit by shareholders over CEO Aubrey McClendon’s 2008 compensation package, which despite a huge drop in share prices that year, topped $112 million.
Blair niche project
Pastor labels pending policy ‘an attack on religious liberty,’ urges action against LGBT ‘rights.’
News
Clifton Adcock
A measure adding sexual orientation to Oklahoma City’s nondiscrimination policy for city employees is being criticized by one Edmond preacher as “an attack on religious liberty.”
GOP candidate Childers wins Senate District 43 special election
Takes 60-percent vote in victory over Meador.
News
Clifton Adcock
Republican candidate Greg Childers defeated his Democratic rival Tuesday night in a special election for Senate District 43.
Spurned station
Letters to the Editor
Wanda Jo Stapleton
I’m responding to Clifton Adcock’s article “Spur of the moment” in the Nov. 2 Gazette. This article is about the problems regarding “the rail line, extending east of Santa Fe Station, which is slated to be the city’s future intermodal transportation hub.”
Shaping social studies
Curriculum for an interdisciplinary field gets revised by a group that includes an influential nonacademic religious adviser.
News
Clifton Adcock
The state Department of Education is beginning the process of formulating new curriculum for public social studies classes.
Death to Elmo?
A Tuttle legislator plans to phase out funding for public television.
News
Clifton Adcock
An effort is under way at the state Capitol to shut down funding for the state’s public television network, the Oklahoma Educational Television Authority.
