Oklahoma City’s minor league baseball time has cut ties with the Dodgers name. Who wants to be associated with a World Series champion, anyway?! Moving forward, the team will be known as the Comets, an ode to Oklahoma native Mickey Mantle and his nickname, “The Commerce Comet.” But Michael Byrnes, president of the baseball club, […]
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Phone ban
Will cell phones soon be banned in Oklahoma schools? State lawmakers appear poised to take up the issue during the next legislative session. Senate Education Committee Chairman Adam Pugh, R-Edmond, held an interim session last month to study the issue. “The data is quite overwhelming that these cell phones, while having tremendous benefit to how […]
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Sinking Canoo?
In a real-life version of the “distracted boyfriend meme,” Gov. Kevin Stitt has spent much of his tenure turning his head away from his petroleum overlords to check out the electric vehicle craze. After failing to get Tesla and Volkswagen to open EV plants in the state, Stitt finally landed Canoo. The startup company agreed […]
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Soul growth
A home-based church group experiencing astounding growth over the last 22 years is creating a traffic nightmare for one Edmond neighborhood. What was once a peaceful gathering of members worshipping together has now bloomed into chaos in the streets. Cars line the block, causing backups and impeding travel within lanes. Neighbors have taken their frustrations […]
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Ryan Walters sure kicked off Teacher Appreciation Week in his own special way.
Ryan Walters sure kicked off Teacher Appreciation Week in his own special way. “I don’t negotiate with the teachers union. They’re a terrorist organization,” told a room full of people to immediate and reverberating rebuke. Unapologetic, he doubled down on the sentiment, “I don’t negotiate with folks who would sabotage our kids. That’s a terrorist […]
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According to Bob Anthony, it’s not that the Oklahoma Corporation Commission can’t do something to reign in energy companies, it’s that they don’t want to.
According to Bob Anthony, it’s not that the Oklahoma Corporation Commission can’t do something to reign in energy companies, it’s that they don’t want to. “The contagion of self-diagnosed impotence at the Corporation Commission is more than just a disservice to Oklahoma ratepayers; it is a dereliction of this agency’s constitutional and statutory duties,” he […]
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Poor Kevin isn’t getting his way and he’s throwing an absolute temper tantrum about it.
Poor Kevin isn’t getting his way and he’s throwing an absolute temper tantrum about it. “Oklahomans elected me to advocate on their behalf and fight for the taxpayer. I take this responsibility seriously and so I cannot, in good faith, allow another year to go by without cutting taxes and reforming education, both of which […]
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Let’s peel back the curtain a moment and look at what new Attorney General Gentner Drummond has drummed up during his first season in office.
Let’s peel back the curtain a moment and look at what new Attorney General Gentner Drummond has drummed up during his first season in office. Here’s a look at the subject lines and quotes from emails his office sent out this month: April 4: Drummond issues formal opinion on State Board of Education rulemaking authority […]
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If it feels like Oklahoma is turning back the clock on its culture, that’s because it is.
If it feels like Oklahoma is turning back the clock on its culture, that’s because it is. Even if conservatives want to argue that a liberal society has gone too far in its embrace of diverse social norms and mores, they’d be hard pressed to explain how reducing penalties for a cruel practice such as […]
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The “law and order” folk in this state are lawless and disorderly the second they get a taste of power.
The “law and order” folk in this state are lawless and disorderly the second they get a taste of power. In separate incidents that both reached national news status, two men in positions of authority attempted to use their status to escape booze-related arrests. In the first, an Oklahoma City police captain used his rank […]