Former Oklahoma Gov. David Hall, who served time in prison after his term in office, has penned a new memoir of his life. Although he writes in “Twisted Justice: A Memoir of Conspiracy and Personal Politics” that he’s forgiven his supposed tormentors — the former U.S. attorney who prosecuted him, several reporters for The Daily […]
Carol Cole-Frowe
Posted inFood & Drink
Aging gracefully
And we like to have our options open. New York strips, rib-eyes, fillets, flanks or T-bones — there’s dozens of cuts and something for everyone. A decades-old debate about whether dry-aged steaks or wet-aged steaks are better is being fueled by the recent increase in availability of dry-aged steaks, which have been primarily served in […]
Posted inArts & Culture
Garden variety
Through hail, wind and heat of day, area gardeners are persevering and, despite challenges from Mother Nature, flourishing, with hundreds of kinds of veggies and flowers growing in dozens of community and employee gardens around town. Close to the north entrance of Chesapeake Energy’s employee garden, one of the permanent garden plots was cleverly named […]
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Many legislators paid lip service to going ‘green,’ but did they actually do anything?
Oklahoma legislators may talk a “green” game, but when it came to passing legislation, it was a mixed bag. Bud Scott, executive director and lobbyist for the Oklahoma chapter of Sierra Club, said the irony is that the last two sessions, there was a constant drumbeat in the Legislature that the state needed to be […]