Several statewide agencies, including Oklahoma Department of Education, are struggling with unwanted visitors. This time, however, instead of teachers or parents asking for better funding and support, it’s those pests nobody seems to know if you spell as one word or two: bedbugs. (AP style rules. Sorry.) Oliver Hodge Memorial Education Building is a five-story […]
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Chicken-Fried News: No sale
Gov. Kevin “Coffee Is for Closers” Stitt has repeatedly said he wants to run Oklahoma like a business — without specifying exactly what kind of business he’s running. Following stalled negotiations over tribal casino gaming compacts, Choctaw Chief Gary Batton seems to have a guess. “It felt like a used car salesman thing, telling me […]
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Chicken-Fried News: Extradition escapade
In the most famous scene in the movie version of The Fugitive, Harrison Ford’s Dr. Richard Kimble escapes Tommy Lee Jones’s Samuel Gerard by taking a death-defying plunge off the side of a dam. One difference between that cinematic scene and a real fugitive case that played out at Will Rogers World Airport is that […]
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Chicken-Fried News: Commutation confluence
Oklahoma’s unprecedented commutation, which released nearly 500 people from prison, a majority of which were convicted for nonviolent offenses, was a step in the right direction to reduce the state’s prison population, which is one of the highest per capita in the world. The happy news that came with so many families being reunited was […]
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Chicken-Fried News: Supermarket sweep
When the Smart Saver at 23rd Street and Martin Luther King Avenue closed in August, leaving the 73111 zip code without a grocery store, residents interviewed by NonDoc called the closing “frustrating,” “devastating,” “a complete loss” and “a bad situation for northeast Oklahoma City.” As news of the store’s sudden closing spread, Smart Saver owners […]
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Chicken-Fried News: Vegan virtue
Oklahoma is finally in a national top 10 list for a positive reason. Unfortunately for Gov. Kevin Stitt’s most overused catchphrase, much like the time he was named No. 6 most popular governor simply for the fact that he succeeded Mary Fallin, the distinction doesn’t apply to the whole state. Tulsa debuted on People for […]
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Chicken-Fried News: Too little, too late
It’s been nearly a decade since the Affordable Care Act provided Oklahoma the opportunity to receive a 9 to 1 match in federal dollars for expanding Medicaid, and still the Republican-led Legislature has done nothing. Oklahoma remains one of only 14 states holding out on expanding Medicaid. Expansion would cover more than 200,000 currently uninsured […]
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Chicken-Fried News: McDonald’s — Better than hospital food
We all know that hospital food usually isn’t the greatest, but a man in Tulsa took extreme steps to avoid eating there when he went to a fast food restaurant after getting shot in the leg but before proceeding to the hospital. Tulsa police believe a man was shot in the leg with a .357 […]
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Chicken-Fried News: Free at last
In accordance with journalism’s “Man Bites Dog” rule, Oklahoma has been making national headlines recently for — get this — actually letting people out of prison. First, as reported on Nov. 4 by CNN, the state released more than 460 nonviolent inmates before their original sentences were completed in the largest single-day mass commutation in […]
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Chicken-Fried News: Highway robbery
The day after Oklahoma celebrated the birthday of its favorite son Will Rogers, two Republican lawmakers filed a bill to essentially spit all over part of his legacy. You can’t make this stuff up. Sens. Nathan Dahm (R-Broken Arrow) and Marty Quinn (R-Claremore) want to rename part of historic Route 66, aka Will Rogers Highway, […]