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Jerry Bohnen
After nearly a year of efforts by Oklahoma City to rezone the historic John F. Kennedy residential neighborhood for the expansion of the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, city officials are withdrawing their rezoning request.

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James Cooper
College isn’t easy. And it sure isn’t cheap. Personal education debt in the U.S. swelled to $914 billion last summer, according to a 2012 report from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

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If there’s one area in which Oklahoma excels at inclusiveness, it’s natural disaster. Tornadoes, blizzards, drought — hell, why not earthquakes, too? Bill Haley and His Comets didn’t have Oklahoma in mind when they recorded “Shake, Rattle and Roll,” but that ’50s hit certainly has applied to the Sooner State in recent years.

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Shauna Lawyer Struby
Oklahomans tend toward the folksy and poetic when talking about the mercurial qualities of the state’s terrain, weather and geography. It’s a relationship forged living amid volatile weather in a place that, per square mile, boasts the most ecosystems in the nation, where ecological disasters of epic proportions, such as The Dust Bowl, take place.

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All things considered, 2012 was a pretty decent year for former University of Oklahoma quarterback Landry Jones: He had the highest completion percentage (66.1 percent) and threw the fewest interceptions (11 – OK, still not great) of his career.

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If there’s one thing we Oklahomans take pride in — at least now that the Thunder season’s over — it’s our football. Arguably the most prideful of all is University of Oklahoma coach Bob Stoops, who’s never shied from an opportunity to boast about the prestigious nature of both his program and its Big 12 conference.

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Oh, college. That wonderful, carefree blur of partying ... pulling all-nighters to finish homework ... surviving on cheap noodle soup ... changing your grades and blocking faculty access to them ...

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Just days before winning the Henry P. Iba Citizen Athlete Award — an honor reserved for those who “excel in their sport and who show by their actions a desire to help others” — Adrian Peterson announced he is “not with” same-sex marriage.