Cimarron Alliance Foundation, a local organization formed to focus on issues facing gays and lesbians in Oklahoma City, will host a summit Saturday at the Ronald J. Norick Downtown Library, 300 Park Ave. Cimarron Alliance Chairman Richard Ogden said The Oklahoma Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Leadership Summit is about, “first of all, educating our own […]
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OKC blind runner loves competing in marathons
Despite being blind since he was 40, Benny Meier runs marathons. Meier runs side by side with a partner, Jack Rector, an 82-year-old marathon runner. Each person holds onto the end of a short rope. Rector describes the course and any obstacles to Meier. “As long as there’s someone that’ll tell me to pick up […]
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Mid-week giveaway means another Hornet overtime game
Another mid-week game at the Ford Center with Desmond Mason giveaways, overtime and injuries. Fortunately, the Hornets again won their overtime game which keeps them in the playoff hunt, beating the Los Angeles Clippers 103-100. After last week’s injury fest, the casualty rolling on the floor was the referee, Jess Kersey who was sent […]
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Media overlooking new John Marshall High’s positives, say OKC officials
Controversy raged when the new John Marshall High School opened last August. A district official said dozens of parents pulled their children from the unfinished facility in an exodus to private and charter schools. Discipline concerns sparked further debate, and, this spring, some called for change, even if that meant temporarily closing the school. THE […]
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OKC Lightning women’s football team racking up impressive record
Like the Oklahoma City Dolls three decades ago, the Oklahoma City Lightning gives local women the opportunity to play football. Having appeared in two world championships and earning a 38-6 record in its six-year history, The Lightning kicks off its next season April 21 against Dallas. “Oklahoma loves a winner. You keep winning, eventually you […]
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Oklahoma Cherokee chief calls Abramoff accusations ‘desperate’
Cherokee Principal Chief Chad Smith calls “desperate” an attempt by the descendants of former tribal slaves to link their ouster to disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff. However, an attorney for the freedmen descendants points to contact between Smith and former Deputy Interior Secretary J. Steven Griles as proof that Abramoff’s machine was at work behind […]
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Oklahoma Spring Game features psychedelic grass
The ESPN commentators estimated more than 40,000 Sooner football fans showed up to watch the team play the Spring Game at Owen Field. With the out-of-season cold snap, fans were wearing the same winter-weather gear as the team’s Big XII Conference Championship game. (That was the last game of the season, right?) The biggest development […]
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Hornets beat Sonics, ho-hum
When the entertainment highlight of a professional basketball game is the announcers showing off a Desmond Mason bobblehead or the sideline reporters’ third-quarter interview with a beekeeper, the on-court action must not be very exciting. But with the team playing to stay in the playoff chase, Wednesday’s Ford Center game should have been riveting. Hornets starters […]
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Oklahoma student wins poetry award
High school competition helps keep poetry alive Established in 2005 by the National Endowment for the Arts, the “Poetry Out Loud” competition encourages high school students to memorize and recite some of the world’s greatest poems in a performance setting. This year, 200,000 high school students from across the country ” more than 1,600 from […]