Brad Gregg Former Oklahoman, Tulsa World and Oklahoma Gazette reporter Scott Cooper recently resigned his position as treasurer-secretary of the Oklahoma Pro Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists after a preliminary review of SPJ’s bank account showed $40,000 in unauthorized withdrawals, according to an SPJ media release. Cooper, who founded the online oklegalnews.com and […]
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RIP, GCB
Brad Gregg Chenoweth took to her Twitter account to announce how “saddened” she and her fellow GCBs were. GCB, if you’ll recall, stood for Good Christian Bitches, the novel it was based on, but in some press interviews, Chenoweth, a Christian herself, said the initials stood for Good Christian Belles. (If that were the case, […]
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Funny people
Brad Gregg After President Obama voiced support for gay marriage, the Oklahoma Senate wasted little time passing what Tim Matheson in Animal House would have termed “a really futile and stupid gesture.” A resolution authored by Sen. Clark Jolley, R-Edmond, and overwhelmingly passed by the Senate on May 14 reaffirmed that the Senate supports marriage […]
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Capital punishment conundrum
Brad Gregg As of this writing, only one dose remains of a drug used to execute death row inmates, of which Oklahoma currently has 64. Pentobarbital, a sedative, is the first drug administered in the three-step lethal injection process. Its manufacturers have stopped selling pentobarbital to prison systems. Now Oklahoma has itself in a pickle: […]
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It’s a gusher!
Brad Gregg Revelations continue to percolate from Reuters, the news agency that spurred the headaches for McClendon last month when it reported on his $1.1 billion in personal loans to pay for a CEO perk. More recently, Reuters showed that McClendon had Chesapeake’s permission to trade in commodities, even though a 2009 contract indicated he […]
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Agent of Shields
Brad Gregg Michael Payne, an instructor of Classen School for Advanced Studies, earned his bid at cinematic immortality by entering a 100-word essay contest. As part of earning an appearance (as a teacher — typecast!) in The Hot Flashes, he gets a trip to New Orleans where the basketball comedy is being filmed. Because the […]
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Meep, meep
Brad Gregg Legislators and law enforcement keep coming up with ACME-styled schemes to stop it, but somehow that tweaked-out bird keeps booking it, whether its final destination is to alleviate the agony of allergy sufferers or in a makeshift meth lab. And so it goes. In the latest volley in the war on meth, Gov. […]
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Earthy digs
Brad Gregg They’re pigs, after all, and just don’t know any better. Architecture students at the University of Oklahoma know that the sturdiest houses are made of earth. Five OU students and two professors recently won a $90,000 grant for merging architectural genius with environmental consciousness when they introduced compressed-earth block building technology. The grant […]
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Down ’bout the crown
Brad Gregg But in the case of Betty Thompson, the reigning Miss Oklahoma, someone literally stole the damn thing. Evidently the jeweled tiara was in the backseat of Thompson’s car while she was moving into a new home in Stillwater. That’s when a thief took off with the crown and two brooches. Thompson said she […]
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Rich man, richer man
Brad Gregg Actually, the event won’t be in OKC, but rather in a municipality known for its working-class ethos and demographic diversity. That’s right, he’s headed to Nichols Hills. The private fundraiser is scheduled to be at the home of Continental Resources CEO, Romney supporter and all-around billionaire Harold Hamm. “We invited everybody we knew, […]