Chicken-Fried News

Oklahoma City’s attempt to slim its waistline is still making headlines, even after Mayor Mick Cornett’s appearance on “Ellen.”   The Baltimore Sun reports our fearless leader is in talks with Taco Bell executives about potentially co-promoting a so-called “fresco” alternative ” think tomato-based ” as opposed to fixings of guacamole and sour cream.   […]

We at Chicken-Fried News are scratching our heads. The 2008 legislative session has only just begun, and already a voice of reason can be heard from our wise lawmakers at 23rd Street and Lincoln Boulevard.   A House subcommittee recently passed a proposed bill that would limit insurance awards for uninsured motorists, according to The […]

Politics makes strange bedfellows, but primaries make strange watch parties in this era when “bipartisanship” is the buzzword. Republicans and Democrats imbibed elixirs derived from malt and barley under the same roof during the Feb. 5 Oklahoma primary, according to Wade Goodwyn’s NPR report, “McCain, Obama share celebration space,” on the Feb. 6, 2008, “Morning […]

What happens when an instructor doesn’t follow the rules he is trying to teach others? Well, as one local attorney found out, you can get indicted.   KTOK-AM 1000 recently reported a federal grand jury returned indictments against Oklahoma City attorney Doug Friesen of allegedly lying to federal agents and illegally possessing a machine gun. […]

It took 100 years to do it, but the Oklahoma Senate finally formally denounced the first piece of legislation the body ever created: “Jim Crow” laws.   You read that right: the first. In 1908, the fledgling state that once had been considered a potential haven for black people turned around and slapped segregation on […]

Gov. Brad Henry will not go down in history as Oklahoma’s oratorical governor. For those who have followed him from the beginning of his gubernatorial campaign in 2002, listening to Henry deliver one of his speeches is like hearing whales mate: sort of intriguing and excruciating at the same time.   But Henry’s latest State-of-the-State […]

A court hearing for the man accused of ripping another man’s scrotum has been delayed until March, according to The Oklahoman.   Allen Michael Beckett, a 53-year-old University of Oklahoma fan and church deacon, was charged with aggravated assault and battery, a felony, after a brouhaha at a Henry Hudsons Pub with Brian Thomas, a […]

Members of the Tulsa City Council seem to believe they have come up with a way to avoid being embarrassed when the people who voted for them get up and scold them to their faces. According to a story in the Tulsa World, the City Council wants to prohibit citizens from knowingly making false statements […]

According to Robert G. Kaiser, associate editor at The Washington Post, the president routinely signs autographs as he’s leaving the Chamber of the United States House of Representatives after his State of the Union address. That doesn’t mean it looks subtle when these signature shenanigans are shown on national television.   Oklahoma’s own U.S. Rep. […]

A married biker couple in Medicine Park (near the Wichita Mountains, dear geographically challenged) are seeing success with their motorcycle shop despite gripes from local churchgoers, according to an article published in The Oklahoman.   After briefly considering opening a coffee shop/law office (a hybrid business popular in nearby cosmopolitan cities like Lawton, Fletcher and […]