The City of Oklahoma City is seeking to do what many other American cities have tried in recent years: regulate the home-sharing industry. It’s no easy task to write an ordinance that allows homeowners to generate extra income by renting their homes through Airbnb, HomeAway, FlipKey and others while also creating a mechanism to cut […]
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Think Bethany
For much of the past few decades, Bethany’s NW 23rd Street corridor has been a place where only the locals go, with grocery stores, open-air shopping malls, gas stations, medical offices and a school. There’s little to brag about with vacant commercial buildings falling into disrepair and a lack of upkeep and appearance. The number […]
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CBD 101
Editor’s note: This article is part of a series examining cannabis and cannabinoids in Oklahoma leading up to the June 26 medical marijuana referendum. Three years ago, when House Bill 2154, a piece of legislation known as “Katie and Cayman’s Law” allowing children with severe epilepsy to take cannabinoids as treatment through a medical trial, […]
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Gaining acceptance
PieceWalk 7:30 a.m. May 5 Chickasaw Bricktown Ballpark 2 S. Mickey Mantle Drive piecewalk.org 405-315-6337 Free-$40 When his son Max was diagnosed with autism in the first grade, Phil Inzinga didn’t know where to turn. Luckily, a friend told him about Autism Oklahoma and its parent support groups. After attending one meeting, Inzinga joined a […]
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True manhood
Brandon McDonald is motivated. The teenager who has his future mapped out with the hope of attending a welding trade school knows that he’s no longer the kid who grew up on the streets. “There are only two cards you are ever dealt,” said McDonald, whose cards are tied to his gender and his skin […]
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Walk, run
The moment Lauren Richter, a fifth-grade teacher in Shawnee, decided to run for office came during the fourth day of the statewide teacher walkout, when educators and their allies continued to demand additional funding for public schools. Educators filled the state Capitol to capacity. Thousands of teachers remained outside the building. “There was no one […]
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Primary issues
An unprecedented number of Oklahomans are running for office, from the U.S. House of Representatives and governor to state Legislature and local district attorney posts. In total, 794 candidates threw their hats into the ring during candidate filing April 11-13 at the state Capitol. This year’s candidate filing came on the heels of a historic […]
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Answering calls
Back in 1990, when Sister Mable Stoss founded the Free Food Pantry and Educational Center, she saw a need going unmet. “I noticed that certain areas [of Oklahoma City] didn’t have a pantry while the other areas were flourishing,” Stoss said. “I found that there were a lot of senior citizens and people who were […]
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Sharply focused
On the second floor of Oklahoma City Hall, just inside the mayor’s conference room connected to both the mayor’s office and the council chambers, framed portraits of the city’s past mayors have always hung on the wall. Not so anymore. On his first day as the City of Oklahoma City’s 36th mayor, David Holt left […]
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Heading west
There’s something magical about The Windsor District’s brick markers with the slanted “W” illuminated with an LED beam. Two years ago, when the first markers appeared around the west Oklahoma City commercial corridor on NW 23rd Street, local merchants and area residents stopped to admire some of the beginning sights of the $13.2 million streetscape […]