On March 4, Oklahoma City voters will decide whether to extend the MAPS for Kids penny sales tax expiring in December 2008 for a year to fund improvements to the Ford Center and for another three months to fund a practice facility if the NBA selects the city for a team. The first year […]
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School election critical
Tuesday’s presidential primary could possibly overshadow two important elections in Oklahoma City. If you live in the Oklahoma City Public Schools districts generally between N.W. 36th and S.W. 29th streets, you’ll have a school board election to consider Tuesday. Board positions in election Districts 3 and 4 are at stake. The boundary line between […]
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Hit parade
Burns Hargis is right on track with his leadership efforts to bring a new edge to the nation’s perception of Oklahoma City. That leadership included a belief that a major Halloween parade could showcase Central Oklahoma’s artistic and creative spirits and help hone the new edge. As Hargis worked his way through the usual […]
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Trying to make sense of it all
The events and proceedings surrounding the applications of Public Service Co. of Oklahoma and Oklahoma Gas and Electric Co. to build the Red Rock generating facility seem as tangled and confusing as “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.” Under state law, electric utilities such as PSO and OG&E don’t need the Oklahoma Corporation Commission’s permission to […]
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Auditing the auditor
There’s no time like the present to abolish the office of state auditor and inspector. It’s one of those obsolete state offices created 100 years ago that should have been eliminated when the offices of state mine inspector and the commissioner of charities and corrections were abolished. The only authority the state constitution gives […]