Ben Fenwick

For electricity customers in Oklahoma City and Edmond looking for a break in prices, the answer is blowing in the wind. Charlie Burgett, the director of Edmond Electric, said the utility wasn’t necessarily intending for its wind power option to be a bargain, it just worked out that way. “We recognize there is a cost […]

In 1993, as Police Sgt. Rick Pierce pedaled his bicycle to the station downtown, two men in a car committed a felony. They threw something at him ” for fun, Pierce reckons. But one could call it assault with a deadly weapon. “A Gatorade bottle was thrown past my head from a moving vehicle,” he […]

Nobody in Oklahoma may get to vote for Bob Barr, but, given the chance, it’s not like many wouldn’t. Former Republican Rep. Barr, who represented Georgia in the United States Congress from 1995 to 2003, led the House of Representatives to impeach then-President Bill Clinton in 1999. He’s for strengthening the border with Mexico, making […]

A legal trustee assigned to Oklahoma legislator Randy Terrill’s 2005 bankruptcy case filed a federal motion to reopen the case, citing undeclared funds in an election account, court records show. The trustee ” John D. Mashburn ” alleges a loan for $11,301 Terrill, R-Moore, made to his 2004 election funds were not reported in his […]

City officials are reviewing plans to affix public bicycle racks in strategic areas of downtown Oklahoma City. Proponents of the plan presented it to the Downtown Design Review Committee at City Hall on Thursday, complete with presentation of samples of the kinds of bicycle racks proposed. Jessica Gonzales, events director for Downtown OKC, told the […]

When Mike Barkley drives to Dallas to meet with fellow electric car enthusiasts at the North Texas Electric Auto Association, he has to do so in a gasoline-powered car. It’s too far for his all-electric 1994 Mitsubishi Eclipse, which he converted to electric power himself. Barkley, who lives just outside of Durant, has to be […]

Mark Sprowls, who works for a Honda dealership in Tulsa, finally decided to take the plunge last year and purchase one of the dealer’s new Civic GX models for his family. NEEDING ANSWERS BUILD IT AND THEY WILL COMEAMPS, NOT OCTANE Sure, Sprowls thinks Hondas are great cars ” he works for the company, but […]

When Rocketplane’s program manager, David Faulkner, went before the Oklahoma Space Industrial Development Authority recently, he told the group business wasn’t exactly entering orbit. FUNDING DIRECT Q&AINNUENDOS FUSELAGE In the past 14 months, Rocketplane lost a $207 million orbital NASA contract, let go of its suborbital space plane’s chief engineer and junked its Learjet fuselage. […]

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Thursday that the Second Amendment gives individuals the right to own guns and use them for sports, hunting or self-defense. In a 5-4 decision, the court struck down a ban on the ownership of handguns in Washington, D.C. In Oklahoma, the ruling will have little immediate effect, because no such […]