The newspaper made the announcement on its website and stated that all Oklahoma Publishing Company stock will be sold to the Anschutz Corp., which is owned by Philip Anschutz, 71, a Denver-based businessman ranked by Forbes magazine as the 37th richest person in the United States and the 124th wealthiest person on the planet with […]
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Gaylord family selling The Oklahoman, OPUBCO
The newspaper made the announcement today on its website and stated that all Oklahoma Publishing Company stock will be sold to the Anschutz Corporation, which is owned by Philip Anschutz, 71, a Denver-based businessman ranked by Forbes magazine as the 37th richest person in the United States and the 124th wealthiest person on the planet […]
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Sprawled out
Around 675 people showed up, according to event organizers, filling the Grand Ballroom of the Oklahoma City Marriott Hotel. Speakers included city officials — Shadid, City Manager Jim Couch, Police Chief Bill Citty, Fire Chief Keith Bryant, Planning Director Russell Claus, Public Works Director Eric Wenger, Public Transportation and Parking Director Rick Cain and Utilities […]
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Application denied
The planned towers, which would have been for the AT&T network and ranged in height from 75 to 125 feet, were met with protests from nearby residents, and the proposals faced harsh criticism from the commissioners. The applications were for an 80-foot tower on top of the Mayfair Center building at 3212 N.W. 48th St., […]
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Chicken fight
The FWS might list the lesser prairie chicken as an endangered species and is currently in the process of studying potential threats. The plains bird, which dwells in western Oklahoma, Kansas, Texas, New Mexico and Colorado, has been a candidate for listing for about a dozen years. The International Union for Conservation of Nature listed […]
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The 9/11 Connection
As with previous generation-defining tragedies, many can recite where they were or what they were doing when they heard our country was under attack. The carnage, heroism and sadness of that day still linger in the collective memory of America — an event that defined the beginning of a new stratum in the layers of […]
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Contingency plan
At its regular Aug. 30 meeting, the council narrowly approved a MAPS 3 budget plan that put the $30 million into an infrastructure/contingency fund. The plan was one of three proposals suggested by MAPS 3 consultant Architectural Design Group, which in July first presented to the MAPS 3 convention center subcommittee a plan to remove […]
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Midtown mayhem
Planners of the H&8th nighttime food vendor event, held in the parking lot of Elemental Coffee, 815 N. Hudson, had been organizing the event since July, said co-organizer J.D. Merryweather (pictured). Food trucks and a large crowd were present for the event. However, shortly after it started at 8 p.m., several ABLE Commission agents, city […]
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Walk the line
Meanwhile, the Oklahoma City Council was scheduled to possibly decide what to do with $30 million set aside from convention center funds and a more detailed draft timeline on the MAPS 3 modern streetcar project was unveiled. In May, the City Council approved a recommendation from the MAPS 3 convention center subcommittee to put the […]
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‘Right of return’
“Today, I’m hearing the term ‘the right of return,’ and it’s in reference to the right of the Palestinian people to return to that land,” the man, Oklahoma Conservative Political Action Committee Chairman Charlie Meadows, said to the crowd gathered before him. “I want to tell you something: I believe in the right of return […]