“Is it worth it?” asked Oklahoma City Public Schools Superintendent Sean McDaniel in a Jan. 13 letter addressed to “families, staff and community.” McDaniel was not quoting Missy “Misdemeanor” Elliott but offering an update on the progress of the Pathway to Greatness plan, which closed 15 public school campuses and required students, teachers and administrators […]
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Chicken-Fried News: Logo no-go
Canada and its people get a reputation for being nice, friendly, well-meaning people, but when you cross them, you better believe they’ll get what they deserve. Nelvana Enterprises, a Canadian entertainment corporation, did just that when it sued a local dispensary for copyright infringement. The dispensary essentially copy-and-pasted the logo for Treehouse TV, Nelvana’s children […]
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Chicken-Fried News: Shake down
According to Oklahoma’s most recent geological survey data — to paraphrase the song made famous by amateur seismologist/underage-cousin-marrier Jerry Lee Lewis — “There’s a whole lotta shakin’ goin’ on, not as much shakin’ as was goin’ on in previous record-setting years, but still, historically speaking, a relatively whole lotta shakin’.” “Earthquakes magnitude 3.0 and greater […]
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Chicken-Fried News: F-4 Hognado
A lot of people living in New York and Los Angeles made jokes about the earnest Twitter reply asking how people in rural America are supposed to defend against 30-50 feral hogs running into a yard. OK, the phrasing of the question is jarring, especially if wild hogs are the last things on your mind. […]
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Chicken-Fried News: Ada Baby Yoda
If 2019 had a breakout star, it was almost certainly The Mandalorian’s Baby Yoda. The unofficial star of Disney+’s new Star Wars spinoff, Baby Yoda instantly captured the hearts of millions with its cuteness. It quickly went on to become a meme of its own, and people went as far as to say they would […]
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Chicken-Fried News: Guthrie Newseum?
The Newseum — a shrine to the power of the First Amendment and the history of journalism — closed the doors at its seven-story, 250,000 square-foot downtown Washington D.C. building last week, and its future is uncertain. Oklahoma Lt. Gov. Matt Pinnell has an offer for the museum’s founders: Have you considered Guthrie, Oklahoma? Specifically […]
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Chicken-Fried News: Rolling blackout
Paseo Arts District businesses and surrounding residences lost power over the holidays, and disappointingly, not because of some screwball National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation-esque Christmas-light mishap either. “A pickup truck crashed into a large transmission line pole at N.W. 30th Street and Hudson Avenue … radiating damage to a mile of poles along 30th,” reported Oklahoma […]
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Chicken-Fried News: High offerings
Giving season is essentially over, but it seems like some businesses found it hard to participate in holiday philanthropy. Fox 25 recently reported two instances of local dispensaries trying to give back during the season. Only one of them was successful. Sweetleaf Health Center and Dewey United Methodist Church partnered to give five families baskets […]
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Chicken-Fried News: Helping hand
Businessman-turned-politician Kevin Stitt might have parlayed some of the same energy that elected businessman-turned-politician Donald Trump to the White House to become Oklahoma’s governor, but he’s not exactly falling in lockstep with the president on every decision. At the urging of Oklahoma faith leaders, Stitt sent a memo to U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo […]
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Chicken-Fried News: Heavenly treasures
Oklahoma’s property taxes, according to Oklahoma Policy Institute, are among the lowest in the U.S., but a recent report from journalism nonprofit The Frontier reveals that for some properties, the taxes are even lower — as in zero. “State law grants tax exemption to properties ‘used exclusively and directly for fraternal or religious purposes,’” The […]