Roger Barton

Regarding Scott Cooper’s “What the heck is going on with the new convention center?” cover story (Aug. 25, Oklahoma Gazette): I’d like to offer my own personal guess regarding an Oklahoma City convention center, having lived through Urban Renewal, the Pei Plan, the Pelli Plan, various configurations of the perpetually underutilized Myriad Convention Center, the […]

After reading Mark Mason’s surprising response (Letters, “The ‘Gray’ village,” May 19, 2010, Oklahoma Gazette) to my earlier letter (“‘Gray’ for gay,” May 12, 2010, Gazette), I re-read it to see whether it was reasonably susceptible to the interpretation he gave it, resulting in his accusation that I was guilty of “vile “¦ hate speech.” […]

To Tom Furlong (Letters, “Defining marriage,” April 21, 2010, Gazette) and other similar self-proclaimed “authorities” on law, our Constitution, human rights and where gays fit into all this: Gay couples do not already have the same rights as other couples, even in a legal or civil union, because most jurisdictions don’t recognize those unions, even […]

I’d like to comment on a couple of the features in Oklahoma Gazette’s April 21 “Green Issue.” Thank you, first of all, for so much information on strategies for sustainable living. However, there are a couple of things that I don’t think were sufficiently brought out. First, Andrea Miller’s article on new “green” homes (“Conscious […]