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Chicken-Fried News: Masked mandate

Once Tulsa began talking seriously about implementing an indoor masking policy in public places, it was only a matter of time before Oklahoma City Mayor David Holt decided to keep pace with his BFF, Tulsa Mayor G.T. Bynum.

By Gazette staff Aug 7, 2020

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Chicken-Fried News: COVID spotting

In an announcement that took absolutely no one by surprise, Gov. Kevin Stitt said he has tested positive for COVID-19.

By Gazette staff Aug 3, 2020

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Chicken-Fried News: Show me the money

When it was made public that recipients of Paycheck Protection Programs might not be released, people were outraged.

By Gazette staff Jul 24, 2020

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Chicken-Fried News: Fleeing bullets

One could say that Walmart is dangerous enough, and so is Del City.

By Gazette staff Jul 20, 2020

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Chicken-Fried News: Police “posse”

At a time when citizens are demanding more training and accountability from their law enforcement, Canadian County Sheriff Chris West announced open applications for his all-volunteer “sheriff’s posse.”

By Gazette staff Jul 6, 2020

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Chicken-Fried News: Empty circus

Tulsa mayor and wannabe Warby Parker model G.T. Bynum could barely contain his enthusiasm when Donald Trump announced his first rally in months for Tulsa.

By Gazette staff Jul 2, 2020

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Chicken-Fried News: Therapy squirrel

The prevalence and expansion of therapy and service animals has really blown up in recent years.

By Gazette staff Mar 19, 2020

Chicken-Fried News: Easter kitty

Remember Lunchbox the cat?

By Gazette staff Mar 12, 2020

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Chicken-Fried News: Almost worst

The countless web surfers who will surely ask Jeeves about Oklahoma after encountering our spiffy new “Imagine That” advertising campaign might uncover some less than flattering imaginative fodder.

By Gazette staff Mar 11, 2020

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Chicken-Fried News: Lambro Steve

Expensive?

By Gazette staff Mar 11, 2020

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Chicken-Fried News: Newkirk news

We wouldn’t expect a high school basketball game in Newkirk to make national news, but that’s what happened when a volunteer announcer called the opposing team’s player names “disgusting.”

By Gazette staff Mar 5, 2020

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Chicken-Fried News: OK paddling

Despite being a symbol for fraternities, sororities and the (illegal) practice of hazing, some Oklahoma students are exposed to a paddle much, much earlier.

By Gazette staff Mar 4, 2020

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Chicken-Fried News: Learned income

The headline alone provokes an almost Kafkaesque image. “‘Our kids have become a piggy bank’: Epic Charter Schools shields $50M in taxpayer funds from public scrutiny,” by Andrea Eger (Tulsa World, Feb. 23) reports Epic has paid its for-profit management company millions of taxpayer dollars annually “for school expenditures that are never audited and which Epic claims are shielded from public scrutiny.”

By Gazette staff Mar 4, 2020

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Chicken-Fried News: Gun safety?

Two Oklahoma county sheriffs recently declared that their counties are sanctuaries.

By Gazette staff Feb 27, 2020

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Chicken-Fried News: Branding backlash

The discourse in the state to last week’s announcement of Oklahoma’s new logo and branding initiative quickly turned from apathetic to outrage, which prompted change on the state’s branding website.

By Gazette staff Feb 26, 2020

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Chicken-Fried News: Okie gunslinging

Oklahoma Republicans have spent much of the 2020 session pandering to pro-gun groups and idolizing guns almost more than they idolize president Donald Trump.

By Gazette staff Feb 26, 2020

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Chicken-Fried News: The Gambler

On the third of February In his State of the State speech Our business-savvy governor Made a request quite inspired Let’s get money from state reserves To fund public education Instead of from casinos To prove their compacts expired

By Gazette staff Feb 20, 2020

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Chicken-Fried News: The Roomba battle of Yukon

The most commotion to occur in Yukon since native son Garth Brooks performed a benefit concert in town in 1990 happened in early February, and it all started with a Roomba — that’s right, the automated vacuum cleaner.

By Gazette staff Feb 19, 2020

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Chicken-Fried News: Not OK, boomer

Black students, faculty and staff at University of Oklahoma matter.

By Gazette staff Feb 19, 2020

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Chicken-Fried News: Not in Kansas

Remember last week when the president of the United States congratulated Kansas City’s Super Bowl champions for representing “the Great State of Kansas … so very well” in a since-deleted-and-corrected tweet?

By Gazette staff Feb 13, 2020

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Chicken-Fried News: Amazon heist

Forget porch pirates!

By Gazette staff Feb 12, 2020

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Chicken-Fried News: How NOT to fake your death

If you’re going to fake your death, it’s probably not a good strategy to have your family pull up headstone searches when the authorities come to alert you of your death.

By Gazette staff Feb 12, 2020

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