Credit: Brad Gregg That’s a rhetorical question, of course. The answer is: damn near everyone. When lawmaker and alleged briber Terrill, R-Moore, announced he was not running for reelection, three Republicans squared off in the June 26 primary. The results forced a Tuesday runoff in which Moore businessman Mark McBride faces Norman resident Paula Sullivan. […]
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Forbidden love
Credit: Brad Gregg It’s fair to say the love story of Ernest W. Marland and Lydie Roberts could have given Woody Allen and Soon-Yi Previn a run for their money in the department of the thoroughly icky. The Weinstein Company is set to make Ends of the Earth, a film dramatizing the tale of Marland […]
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Oh, Mercy
Credit: Brad Gregg The new Mercy logo was rolled out in Missouri in September of 2011, but only arrived in Oklahoma a few months ago. That’s when an Oklahoma City resident informed the company of the remarkable similarity. Rachel Wright, a spokesperson for OKC’s Mercy Hospital, said a graphic designer at the corporate office created […]
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Feed’n y’all
Credit: Brad Gregg By the end of this year, the chain expects to have a total of 19 locations across the country. Time magazine has called TK’s ILTB&G one of the top 10 celebrity restaurants, while The Huffington Post (“HuffPo” to the hipsters) included it in its list of the 25 best celeb-owned eateries. Hats […]
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You say ‘Ohio,’ I say ‘Oklahoma’
Credit: Brad Gregg That’s because it’s actually footage of Oklahoma City. Sarah Burris, Dwight Clark and other locals noticed the shot of E. Sheridan in Bricktown in the spot. Burris speculated that the error might have something to do with the states’ close proximity, alphabetically speaking. Does this mean we’ll soon see an ad about […]
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Party down
Credit: Brad Gregg Republican voters have had the largest net growth of all political parties in the state since June 1 of this year. Democrats, who have held the most registered voters for many decades, only do so now by a small margin. Also outpacing Democrats in growth are Independent voters, an interesting development since […]
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Not so hot
Credit: Brad Gregg July was the hottest month in the U.S. since records began in 1895. Our fair state alone broke 64 heat records last month, which followed on the heels of Oklahoma’s warmest spring ever recorded, according to the Oklahoma Climatological Survey. And the warning bells about climate change have been sounding louder. Koch-funded […]
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It’s melting! melting!
Credit: Brad Gregg That would be illegal, we’re pretty sure, just as it’s illegal to rob the ice cream man. According to Midwest City police, that’s what Gee did on Aug. 3, when temperatures were 113 and he purchased a frozen treat at an ice cream van. Sadly, the item evidently had melted. Gee allegedly […]
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Gored to death
Credit: Brad Gregg Vidal was the maternal grandson of Thomas Pryor Gore, the blind Democratic U.S. senator from Oklahoma. One of the state’s first two senators, he is buried at Fairlawn Cemetery in Oklahoma City. All that is kind and good. What’s not was Vidal’s friendship with Timothy McVeigh — yes, the Murrah Federal Building […]
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Don’t tread on us
Credit: Brad Gregg A July 29 Post article focused on Oklahoma’s conservatism “with an independent streak and a disdain for the strong arm of government,” noting that “the state cannot even get residents to comply with car insurance laws.” As the story noted, around a quarter of all Oklahoma drivers don’t carry car insurance, while […]