Keith Gaddie

Driving down the highway, I engage in a sorting and shuffling exercise. I review concerns, irritations, hopes, priorities and projects in order to decide where to put energy and assets. The powers that be in Oklahoma City are doing the same thing ” weighing what to do next with the tax known as MAPS and […]

Driving down the highway, I engage in a sorting and shuffling exercise. I review concerns, irritations, hopes, priorities and projects in order to decide where to put energy and assets. The powers that be in Oklahoma City are doing the same thing ” weighing what to do next with the tax known as MAPS and […]

What a difference a decade or so makes. Thirteen years ago, Kim and I left New Orleans for Norman. I wanted out of Tulane University. The University of Oklahoma offered me a chance to start over, and so we set off from one economically depressed capital of the oil patch to another. In the summer […]

Mary Fallin is running for governor, and the 5th Congressional District is once again open. The consequences are many, as political ambitions again get released and posturing starts. The fires of ambition are burning brighter and earlier than usual in an Oklahoma campaign season. The Democrats’ best bet, former Corporation Commissioner Jim Roth, likely won’t […]

The decline of the giant shopping mall is in full swing. There are 1,100 shopping malls in the US, and they are not doing so well. Crossroads Mall, which is now without a single anchor store, will soon confront the challenge of other aging malls: How to make money when stores and people don’t want […]

Michael Tomasky, American editor of London’s The Guardian newspaper’s U.S.-centered Web site, made a set of three suggestions to guide the Obama administration’s effort to broaden its support. The first suggestion was that Obama come to Oklahoma and make a speech.  That is a fine idea. Barack Obama took 34 percent of the vote in […]

The Oklahoma Sooners made the BCS title game. The path was criticized by sports writers, who think OU going to the Big 12 championship is nothing less than a Red River sellout. Lord knows what they’ll think of OU going to the big dance. For those who don’t know, Oklahoma made the championship game based […]

One of my favorite motion pictures is “Gattaca,” an Andrew Niccol vehicle for Ethan Hawke, Uma Thurman and Jude Law. This dystopian vision of a genetically engineered future has as its central premise the concept of undeniable, verifiable identity. For good or for ill, science is catching up with “Gattaca.” Issues of science and identity […]

This election season, the Oklahoma Senate is a one-seat map with Democrats and Republicans tied at 24-24. There is room for either party to gain one seat, perhaps two. The Democrats need to take three seats to gain control of the Senate, two to tie. Of these target districts where gains ” or losses ” […]

Old-line Oklahoma residents didn’t enjoy the first two rounds of oil shocks that hit the U.S. in the Seventies and Eighties. The most recent round visited Oklahoma, and the reality of automotive and oil dependency is being driven home. The time is now to revisit mass transit. Oklahoma once upon a time had clean mass […]