When Oklahoma Rep. Sean Roberts (R-Hominy) issued his statement before the first Oklahoma City Thunder game since the regular season came to an abrupt halt in March, many were undoubtedly asking the same question. Sean who? While it is true that Roberts has been in the Oklahoma Legislature for nearly a decade, he had managed […]
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Chicken-Fried News: Masked mandate
Once Tulsa began talking seriously about implementing an indoor masking policy in public places, it was only a matter of time before Oklahoma City Mayor David Holt decided to keep pace with his BFF, Tulsa Mayor G.T. Bynum. But while hospital beds were filling to capacity in intensive care units across the metro and Integris […]
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Chicken-Fried News: COVID spotting
In an announcement that took absolutely no one by surprise, Gov. Kevin Stitt said he has tested positive for COVID-19. Once the initial tsunami of laugh reacts subsided, the question on everyones’ minds became, “Where did he contract it?” Since Stitt has been traveling the state since the first case was announced, the best answer […]
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Chicken-Fried News: Show me the money
When it was made public that recipients of Paycheck Protection Programs might not be released, people were outraged. When the names of PPP recipients were released to the public last week, there was even more outrage. In a joke so bad that professional comedians would not have dared write it into a script, the Ayn […]
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Chicken-Fried News: Fleeing bullets
One could say that Walmart is dangerous enough, and so is Del City. Put those two together and it’s already dicey, but toss a pandemic into the mix and odds are firmly against you returning completely unscathed. Add a trigger-happy off-duty police officer working a security gig into the mix and that weekend shopping trip […]
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Chicken-Fried News: Police “posse”
At a time when citizens are demanding more training and accountability from their law enforcement, Canadian County Sheriff Chris West announced open applications for his all-volunteer “sheriff’s posse.” Nothing could be more tone-deaf than calling for a return to Wild West tropes during a time when Black people are demanding that they stop being murdered […]
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Chicken-Fried News: Empty circus
Tulsa mayor and wannabe Warby Parker model G.T. Bynum could barely contain his enthusiasm when Donald Trump announced his first rally in months for Tulsa. Trump voters, however, turned out to be less enthusiastic, filling only about a third of BOK Center, an arena successfully sold out previously by the likes of Nickelback and The […]
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Chicken-Fried News: Therapy squirrel
The prevalence and expansion of therapy and service animals has really blown up in recent years. There’s as much oversight for online certification of service animals as there is on preventing the spread of COVID-19 in the U.S. A woman recently brought a miniature horse on flights from Michigan to California, and it raised the […]
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Chicken-Fried News: Easter kitty
Remember Lunchbox the cat? We recently dubbed him the “Most Oklahoma cat ever” for sharing a name with Edna’s popular cocktail and being quite overweight, something too many Oklahomans struggle with. Oklahoma Humane Society posted about the nearly 24-pound cat back in January, saying he was its newest Weight Watchers member. Before being put up […]
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Chicken-Fried News: Almost worst
The countless web surfers who will surely ask Jeeves about Oklahoma after encountering our spiffy new “Imagine That” advertising campaign might uncover some less than flattering imaginative fodder. For example, a recent study by financial advice site WalletHub rated Oklahoma the 47th best state for women, ranking it 44th in economic and social well-being and […]