Ron Ferrell got out. Out of debt. Out of the housing market. Out of the city and almost off the power grid. Getting outSustainable lifeUrban gardenerSustainable community Ferrell lives in the outskirts of the metro area, but is making it in life quite literally on his own, living in a 725-square-foot home he built by […]
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New legislation attempts to regulate Oklahoma’s many puppy mills
Mugsy had lost almost all of her teeth by the time she was 5 years old. The Yorkshire terrier still had a few teeth left when she was rescued from a puppy mill, and her new owner took her to a veterinarian. But the vet pulled most of the teeth. They were too rotten to […]
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Frenzied fans line up for midnight movie madness
Chinh Doan could not keep the smile off her face last Thursday night. “This is epic,” Doan, a University of Oklahoma journalism sophomore, said. “It’s one of those events that is so groundbreaking and revolutionary that no one can really describe it.” That event: the midnight premiere of “The Twilight Saga: New Moon.” The “Twilight” […]
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Oklahomans recall their inaugural experiences
WASHINGTON, D.C. ” Oklahoma City University student Carri Perrier never thought she would walk four miles in Washington, D.C., in freezing weather before the sun had risen. But on inauguration day, she did. And so did thousands of others. PURE ADRENALINE RUSHSIMILAR COMPANY Perrier, a liberal arts graduate student from Broken Arrow, spent 10 days […]
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Oklahoma heartbreak
Editor’s note: Reposted with permission from The Oklahoma Daily. I locked myself in my bedroom and cried the first time I read the memo. It was January 2008. Two weeks before, I had sent a text message to a former high school teacher that read simply, “Oh no. I may be turning liberal.” OUTSIDE THE […]