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PRESS RELEASE OG&E customers have flexible payment plans available as company prepares to resume service disconnects
By press release
Tags: State, OGE, Oklahoma Gas and Electric Company, payment plants, electric service disconnects
PRESS RELEASE OKC free landfill day postponed
Tags: Metro, City of Oklahoma City, utilities, free landfill day, trash, COVID-19, coronavirus
Luxury lanes
A motor coach company boasting first-class service is starting a route between Oklahoma City and Dallas.
By Miguel Rios
Tags: Metro, News, Oklahoma City, City News, travel, commute, Dallas, Texas, OKC-DAL, Oklahoma City-Dallas, Dallas-Oklahoma City, Vonlane, Alex Danza, Southwest Airlines, Sheraton Downtown, Sheraton, Sheraton Oklahoma City Downtown Hotel, DoubleTree Love Field Hotel, Red River Showdown, OU/TX, Texas Exes, University of Oklahoma, Austin, Dallas, Fort Worth, Houston, San Antonio, motor coach, bus
Stage dive
Psychedelic garage rock band Pearl Earl stops at Norman’s Opolis on the way to starting a new chapter.
By Jeremy Martin
Tags: Music Features, Music, Arts & Culture, arts, culture, entertainment, Pearl Earl, Ariel Hartley, Opolis, Bailey K. Chapman, Denton, Texas, Minneapolis, Minnesota, psychedelic rock, Los Angeles, Stefanie Lazcano, Chelsey Dannielle, Something’s Gotta Change, EP, Helen Kelter, Psychotic Reaction
Chicken-Fried News: Shell shocked
By Gazette staff
Tags: Chicken-Fried News, Chicken-Fried News, CFN, turtles, save the turtles, Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation, William Gangemi, turtle smuggler, box turtles, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, wildlife trafficking, Carlos Gomez, Game Warden, News on 6, National Geographic, Reuters, pollution, plastic, environment, animals
OKG Lifestyle: Aly Cunningham
Tags: Community & Lifestyle, OKG Lifestyle, Community & Lifestyle, community, lifestyle, Aly Cunningham, GoGo Sushi, Fleabag, Amazon Prime, The Mean Hustle Broad Cast, The Spy FM, Front Desk, Kelly Yang, Sisu Youth Services, Friday Art Walk, Norman, Seven Mile Cafe, Denton, Texas, Good Mythical Morning, YouTube, Blacklisted Podcast, I was Caroline Calloway, Natalie Bleach, The Cut, When Stephen King is Your Father, the World is Full of Monsters, Joe Hill, Literary Hub, Full Throttle: Stories, International Spy Museum, Washington D.C., D.C., Happy Plate Concepts, Sunnyside Diner, S&B’s Burger Joint, Manna Eatery, Grey’s Anatomy, Rumours, Fleetwood Mac, Common Sense Pregnancy, Jeanne Faulkner, David Holt, Sunday Twilight Concert Series, Myriad Botanical Gardens
Chicken-Fried News: Talkin’ trash
By Ingvard Ashby and Gazette staff
Tags: Chicken-Fried News, Chicken-Fried News, Texas, Oklahoma, football, Red River Showdown, Schuyler Dixon, Cotton Bowl Stadium, University of Oklahoma, University of Texas, unsportstmanlike conduct
Powerful women
Following one of its most successful years, a local nonprofit continues recruiting and training progressive women to run for office.
Tags: State, News, Sally’s List, Sara Jane Rose, Alyssa Fisher, lobbying, recruiting, candidates, candidate training, Kendra Horn, elected office, public official, pro-choice, progressive candidates, women candidates, state capitol, Planned Parenthood, Sally Rae Merckle Mock, Annie’s List, nonpartisan, nonprofit, civic engagement, education, health care, economy, criminal justice reform, Carrie Blumert, Nikki Nice, Chelsey Branham, Powerful Women, Tina Tchen, Barack Obama, Michelle Obama, White House Council on Women and Girls
Youth voters
Local organizations are helping register high school students to vote while creating avenues of education for further civic engagement.
Tags: Education, News, Amy Curran, Oklahoma City Public Schools, Generation Citizen, Generation Citizen Oklahoma, League of Women Voters, Rebecca Greenhaw, Civics Day, HerFlag, Let’s Fix This, National High School Voter Registration Week, OKCPS, civic engagement, OKC Equip, PAR, participatory action research, action civics, voter registration, young voters, high school voters, elections, The Oklahoman, media literacy, social media advocacy, civics education, Brown Center on Education Policy, Brookings Institution, Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, Washington D.C., March for Our Lives, K-12 education, Center for Information & Research on Civic Learning and Engagement, CIRCLE, midterm cycle, local civics, school board, bills, action plans
Cartoon: Pound for pound
By Ingvard Ashby
Tags: Commentary, Oklahoma, Texas, obesity, national obesity, obesity rates, political cartoon
Chicken-Fried News: Conservative moves
Tags: Chicken-Fried News, Chicken-Fried News, cannabis, medical cannabis, advertising, billboards, Paul Chabot, The Oklahoman, Texas, Conservative Move
Cover: Rocket launch
Explosions in the sky on the Fourth of July offer a respite from America circa 2019.
Tags: Community & Lifestyle, Highlights, Kent Johnson, American Immigration Council, Las Americas Immigrant Advocacy Center, Families Belong Together, freedom, equality, Fourth of July, Oklahoma City Dodgers, Red Rock Express, Chickasaw Bricktown Ballpark, Bricktown Ballpark, fireworks, Bethany Freedom Festival, Eldon Lyon Park, A Celebration in the Heartland, Buck Thomas Park, Fourth of July Kickoff BBQ Blues Festival, DJ Country Fresh, Schroeder Lane, Forest Park, Liberty & Lasers, The Floozies, SoDown, Maddy O’Neal, Lost Lakes Entertainment Complex, LibertyFest, parade, Mickey Park Playland, Norman’s July Fourth Celebration, One Two Ten, Jabee, My So CalledBand, Reaves Park, OKC 4th Fest, Oklahoma River, Riversport Adventures, Boathouse District, Riversport Rapids, Piedmont’s Flashback Freedom Fest, Red White & Boom, Tribute to Liberty, We Are the Metal Heads of Oklahoma Fourth of July Picnic, Yukon Freedom Fest
Cover: Green state
June 26 is the one-year anniversary of the vote to legalize medical cannabis. Oklahoma Gazette looks back at the first year and glances toward the future for the cannabis plant in the state.
By Matt Dinger
Tags: The High Culture, cannabis, medical cannabis, marijuana, medical marijuana, Jon Echols, State Question 788, Oklahoma Medical Marijuana Authority, OMMA, THC, J. Blake Johnson, Climb Collective, Overman Legal Group, economy, economic impact, Mary Fallin, House Bill 2612, unity bill, House Bill 2601, cleanup bill, HB2612, HB2601, Leslie Collum, Oklahoma County District Court, Chris “Uncle Grumpy” Moe, Chris Moe, Norma Sapp, House Bill 1269, HB1269
Factchecking Oklahoma: Is state ed funding up $2 billion?
Former Gov. Frank Keating co-wrote an op-ed claiming state ed funding increased $2 billion, but appropriations numbers tell a different story.
By Mollie Bryant
Tags: State, education, education funding, Frank Keating, Larry Parman, taxes, public school funding, Oklahoma Senate Republicans, Oklahoma State Department of Education, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, Jeff Hickman, Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs, Curtis Shelton, Office of Management and Enterprise Services, OMES, appropriations, Deana Silk, National Assessment of Education Progress
Cover: Shadow of doubt
Seven years after DACA was implemented, Dreamers continue wrestling with the uncertainty of their future.
Tags: State, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, DACA, Dreamers, immigration, undocumented, Donald Trump, Trump administration, Barack Obama, Obama administration, Denver, Juarez, Colorado, Mexico, college, scholarships, driving, Javier Hernandez, immigration attorney, Tasneem, Al-Michael, Taz Al-Michael, Brisa Ledezma, Miriam Ortega, Yovana Medina, ywca, historic Capitol Hill, Santa Fe south, Merlin Bell, Chelsey Branham, Oklahoma Bar Association, Jalisco, CATO Institute, Migration Policy Institute, economy, American Dream and Promise Act of 2019, deportation, Video
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