Apparently, space aliens have lousy lobbyists. Against all opposition, the state Senate passed a bill banning the implanting of a microchip into an Oklahoman’s body without the consent of said Okie. Senate Bill 47, by Sen. Brian Crain, R-Tulsa, would empower the state Health Department to levy a fine of $10,000 a day […]
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OKC’s Crossings church campus to undergo $15 million expansion
Crossings Community Church, one of Oklahoma City’s largest churches, is making plans to add 74,000 square feet of additional space and 11 acres at an estimated cost of $15.5 million. Senior Pastor Marty Grubbs said that with weekly attendance of 4,700, the Church of God congregation has outgrown the space. BETTER CAREGrubbs said […]
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Rugby one of the University of Oklahoma’s oldest sports for women
The University of Oklahoma’s women’s rugby team, the Oklahoma Roses, insists the full-contact sport is safe and simple. It’s also much like soccer, in that there are few breaks in the game and a lot of running. Like football, it’s all about getting the ball from one end of the field to the other. […]
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Beyond the bones of Jesus
In case there is anyone out there who hasn’t heard yet, filmmaker James Cameron, who gave us such believable movies as “Titanic,” has made a new documentary called “The Lost Tomb of Jesus.” In it, he claims that several “ossuaries” or limestone tombs unearthed by construction workers in Jerusalem in 1980 once contained the bones […]
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Oklahoma couple explodes beer keg
Guess what? If you stick a keg with beer dregs in it into a fire with the lid clamped on, you getcherself a gol-dang explosion! No sheet, by golly. At least, that’s what a couple of Adair folks discovered when they did just that, a recent story reported. According to The Associated Press, […]
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Oklahoma Speaker of the House pushes ethics bill
Amid alleged unethical conduct involving campaign fund-raising, Oklahoma Speaker of the House Lance Cargill is now pushing through an ethics reform bill, and all sides are taking a wait-and-see approach. “Obviously, this is an issue the speaker had to deal with,” said Rep. Richard Morrissette, D-Oklahoma City, an outspoken critic of Cargill. “I’ve been […]
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Oklahoma senator proudly wears his critics’ labels
Oklahoma’s own Sen. James Inhofe got a crowd cheering quickly at a recent Conservative Political Action Conference, a Washington Post columnist reported. Here at CFN we’re still scratching our heads about his method. “I have been called ” my kids are all aware of this ” dumb, crazy man, science abuser, Holocaust denier, villain […]
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Oklahoma’s official cooking pot: The Dutch Oven
Republicans and Democrats have been fighting over a lot of things lately down at the state Capitol. Bills on abortion certainly have rallied passionate feelings on both sides of the political aisle. An immigration-reform measure had sharp words flowing and daggers drawn before it easily passed the House of Representatives. And, of course, the old […]
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Norman documentary to chronicle state’s 100 years of history
A centennial documentary currently in preproduction in Norman will focus on the people ” rather than the places and events ” that make Oklahoma grand. When filmmaker Peter Zhmutski ” originally from Kazakhstan ” moved to Oklahoma in 2003, he said he was impressed by Oklahoma and its “friendly” citizens. “Sometimes it’s really hard for […]
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Attack of the crunchy conservatives’
Norman cleanly broke free of the long-term domination of local politics by developers to elect a “smart-growth” mayor, Cindy Simon Rosenthal, over local developer Trey Bates. Why did the race turn out the way it did? The campaign pitted a strong grassroots-plus-mail effort by the smart-growth candidate (university, core-redevelopment type) against the top-down, targeted […]