Credit: Brad Gregg The reason, you ask? (Play along here.) Inhofe was one of the “Gang of 17” senators who voted against a bill by Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., to remove sexual assault cases from the military chain of command. As a Tulsa World blog recently noted, the advocacy organization is targeting federal lawmakers who […]
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’Merica the beautiful
Credit: Brad Gregg According to data collected from Foursquare, our love affair with explosives — namely fireworks — as well as our outstanding park and parade attendance on the Fourth of July makes Oklahoma City the second most patriotic city in the nation, just behind Knoxville, Tenn. The list was compiled based on spikes […]
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’Crack down
Credit: Brad Gregg But leave it to the Oklahoma Academy of Ophthalmology to put a stop to all our fun. Since July is Fireworks Eye Safety Awareness Month (did you get our card?), the OAO would like to remind us that — get this — fireworks are dangerous. Who knew? Well, probably all the kids […]
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Say it ain’t so, Joe
Credit: Brad Gregg In a June 20 Time story about veterans and public service, Klein mused while mentioning cleanup after the Moore tornado that it’s “funny how you don’t see organized groups of secular humanists giving out hot meals,” insinuating that only the religious kind organize to help out their fellow man. But you faithful […]
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Looking for love in OkC
Credit: Brad Gregg According to a study by finance blog Money Under 30, Oklahoma City is one of the 10 best places in the world (OK, America) for all you young, poor, hopeless romantic types. Their reasoning? Well, our economy seems to be doing pretty well, with a low cost of living at that. Oh, […]
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Hey, bulldog
Credit: Brad Gregg The OKC Thunder big man took to the popular social-networking site last week to unload his pup — a rather adorable English bulldog — for the negotiable price of $1,500. “Hey I have a English bulldog and he to big to be around my youngest child he 10 months got his papers […]
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Buggin’
Credit: Brad Gregg Experts note that a wetter-than-normal spring has provided an ideal environment for mosquito-breeding. That can mean more than itchy skin. Over the last seven years, the Oklahoma City-County Health Department reports, the Sooner State has seen 318 confirmed cases of the West Nile virus, which can be transmitted via mosquito bite. Last […]
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Tom nixed
Credit: Brad Gregg Wonder if his board liked the way they looked firing him? Closer to home, SandRidge’s board deemed Ward expendable just months after Aubrey McClendon, with whom Ward had founded Chesapeake Energy, was pushed out by his board. Shareholders these days seem to be more volatile than Glee fans. But don’t cry too […]
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Evolution revolution
Credit: Brad Gregg As evidence, the National Center for Science Education recently pointed out that two university departments in Oklahoma stepped back to Scopes “monkey trial” territory to defend evolution’s honorable status in higher education. The University of Central Oklahoma and Southwestern Oklahoma State University have separate, if equally unyielding, statements on the importance of […]
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Say you’re sorry
Credit: Brad Gregg On June 11, freshman U.S. Rep. Jim Bridenstine, R-Tulsa, took to the House floor to demand — nay, to demand! — that President Barack Obama apologize to Oklahomans for not spending more on weather research. “This president spends 30 times as much money on global warming research as he does on weather […]