The 10th Annual Festivas de las Americas, a Hispanic art and culture festival, hits Capitol Hill this weekend.
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MAPS 4 Neighborhoods: Group wants next MAPS to focus on overlooked communities
Pennington and Dodson believe it is time to listen to neighborhood leaders first, then spend money how each area needs it.
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News Briefs: streetcar maintenance facility, KD builds courts, Free Fare Friday and more
City council receives update on streetcar maintenance facility, Kevin Durant builds courts for kids, EMBARK offers Free Fare Fridays and more.
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Cinco de Mayo celebrations planned for Plaza Mayor, Calle Dos Cinco
Contrary to popular belief, the annual celebration of Cinco de Mayo is not “Mexican Independence Day” (that is called Grito de Dolores and is held on Sept. 16) or a South of the border variation of St. Patrick’s Day. Cinco de Mayo instead celebrates the decisive moment in Mexican history when, at the Battle of […]
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Chicken-Fried News: Manic states of Coburn
Residents in D.C. are asking for statehood and voting rights, but Oklahoma Senator Tom Coburn thinks it’s a waste of time and would just be too much work.
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Beacon on the hill
David Sellers Photo by Mark Hancock The Capitol Hill Beacon was established in 1905 as the Capitol Hill News, and David Sellers became a publishing partner in 1967 after learning printing and presswork and earning his journalism degree. He is also known as a leader in the Capitol Hill and south side area of OKC, with […]
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Payback politics?
Credit: Brad Gregg Even as recovery operations began May 20, Roll Call quoted Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Muskogee, as saying disaster spending should be offset with spending cuts elsewhere, dredging up ugly memories of the earlier struggle to pass disaster relief spending for Hurricane Sandy victims. The GOP was accused of cold-heartedness after House Speaker John […]
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The I-word
Credit: Brad Gregg But what really appears to have ignited the conspiratorial imagination of U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe, R-Tulsa, is Benghazigate. Oklahoma’s senior senator has long accused the White House — as well as then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, with her unwomanly “forceful attitude” — of hiding some horrible misdeeds regarding the Sept. 11, 2012, […]
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Bad taste
As I read, however, I was distracted by two pictures: one of a young girl dressed provocatively with her face cropped out, and another being a cartoon of a girl upside-down, poledancing. The images belonged to the Coyote Ugly Saloon and Miss Pole Dance Oklahoma 2013 ads adjacent to the article. Variety Care is fighting […]
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Frank gets clubbed
Credit: Brad Gregg Last week, the organization issued a “Primary My Congressman” list of nine RINOs (Republicans In Name Only) that the group wants defeated in their next primary elections. So why did Lucas make the list? According to Club for Growth, the 11thterm congressman “has a long record of voting against cutting spending” and […]