Let’s start with Mickey’s home in higher education. Unlike most states with a consolidated higher ed system, ours is fragmented, with nearly 30 separate colleges and universities, each with its own president, squadrons of vice presidents, deans, provosts and other administrators and enrollment and business offices. Bring all the two-year colleges under one statewide community […]
Letters to the Editor
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Sour note
So, now, instead of our beloved Zoo, we are being offered the Downtown Airpark; what the heck is that? Maybe they will drag out their rickety, worn-out Ferris wheel to attract attendees. Shame on the zoo trustees for turning this over to casino promoters, who could not compete with the Zoo Amp, so they bought […]
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Train kept a-rollin’
It could be said that men my age have fleeting, and sometimes inaccurate, memories of themselves at those ages. But I remember with complete clarity the nights in those homes when a haunting, mournful, yet beautifully rich sound issued across the dark night skies of Oklahoma City. The one I remember most clearly occurred at […]
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Abuse of power
—tracked our every movement with location information from our personal cell phones;—spied on millions of law-abiding U.S. citizens’ cell phone information, in addition to Internet searches, emails, pictures, videos, etc.; —recorded the personal phone calls and e-mails of reporters who disagreed with him (in addition to their families); —used the IRS to target, bully and […]
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In praise of petroleum
Why? you ask. Petroleum oil produces thousands more products than listed. One 42-gallon barrel of oil creates 19.4 gallons of gasoline, and then the rest is used to make everyday items. I wasn’t raised with a computer or cell phone, but the future generation cannot seem to live without their electronic leash. I was raised […]
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Thanks from Moore
The outpouring of support both physically, emotionally and monetarily has been so heartwarming and gratifying. We are unpretentious folk down here and take pleasure in the simpler things. And one of those will be in a few weeks, where happiness will be watching TV news reporters headed home with an out-of-state roofing contractor under each […]
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Too red for government aid?
Sens. James Inhofe and Tom Coburn of Oklahoma both voted against the Hurricane Sandy Aid bill, Inhofe saying that the money requested amounted to a “slush fund.” Hurricane Sandy affected a total of 24 states, and the costs have amounted to $50 billion. Now comes the question: What will their vote be concerning these recent […]
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Still the ‘Oklahoma Standard’
I’ve lived in Oklahoma City for just three years, so this is my first “let’s all pull together” Okie moment. Nicole Hill (“To be an Oklahoman”) summed it up wonderfully. This place gets in your blood really quickly. And now that the degree of separation is no more than two for everyone in OKC regarding […]
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College and life
Which school offers a real, semesterlong class where kids are shown the reality of college-based occupations vs. technical school occupations? Which high school has a mandatory class that has testing for a student’s interests/abilities and helps a kid match that to real job careers with a livable salary? Kids watch TV and see different situations […]
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You kidding me?
I soon realized that Mr. Oliver was deeply deluded and/or vastly enriched by the eight years in which G.W. stole two elections, started two entirely unnecessary wars (making puppetmaster Cheney millions in no-bid contracts), bankrupting the country with tax cuts for millionaires, stopping much-needed stem cell research, tortured suspects in violation of the Geneva Convention, […]