Oklahoma’s education debate spends a lot of time on a few familiar subjects: education funding vs. tax cuts, vouchers and charters vs. traditional public schools and high-stakes testing vs. letting teachers teach. What’s too often missing from these debates is any consideration of the needs of real students. We’ve lost sight of the reasons kids […]
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Letters
Oklahoma Gazette provides an open forum for the discussion of all points of view in its Letters to the Editor section. The Gazette reserves the right to edit letters for length and clarity. Letters can be mailed, faxed, emailed to jchancellor@okgazette. com or sent online at okgazette.com, but include a city of residence and contact […]
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Amour
In other words, the guy is definitely not the lovey-dovey type. But that unblinking, cold-blooded aesthetic is largely what makes Amour, coming to home video after an Academy Award win for Best Foreign Language Film, so remarkable. In its depiction of an elderly Parisian couple coming to terms with illness and looming death, the film […]
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Survey says …
Survey results revealed residents view OKC an “excellent” or “good” place to live (88 percent), work (82 percent) and raise children (81 percent). Ratings for those items were significantly higher than the national averages for large U.S. cities. The six-page survey was mailed to a random sample of 3,000 households this summer. A total of […]
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Fred Won’t Move Out
That might sound like emotionally exhausting stuff, but this small indie has a surprisingly light touch. Writer-director Richard Ledes is more interested in capturing the stirring moments of family life than he is in heavy-handed exploration. The elderly couple at the center, Fred and Susan (Ruby Sparks’ Elliott Gould and Choke’s Judith Roberts), reside in […]
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Tired of trash?
The City of Oklahoma City is working with the Oklahoma City-County Health Department and the JFK Neighborhood Association to include tire recycling into a day of large trash pickup. Walter Jacques, director of quality assurance for protective health services, said that all too frequently, car dealerships or tire shops illegally dump old tires in abandoned […]
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Tired of trash?
The City of Oklahoma City is working with the Oklahoma City-County Health Department and the JFK Neighborhood Association to include tire recycling into a day of large trash pickup. Walter Jacques, director of quality assurance for protective health services, said that all too frequently, car dealerships or tire shops illegally dump old tires in abandoned […]
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Tired of trash?
The City of Oklahoma City is working with the Oklahoma City-County Health Department and the JFK Neighborhood Association to include tire recycling into a day of large trash pickup. Walter Jacques, director of quality assurance for protective health services, said that all too frequently, car dealerships or tire shops illegally dump old tires in abandoned […]
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You better vote Tuesday!
Voters should carefully examine the backgrounds and qualifications of the candidates before voting, because the differences among them are profound. Candidates from three of the four wards appear to have the support of political interests that seek to reverse the will citizens expressed in MAPS and to assert political agendas. In Ward 8, Cliff Hearron […]
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Point: Sustainability is ‘good stewardship’
Edmond called a meeting to discuss a “sustainability plan,” but protesters disrupted the meeting and shouted down citizens. The protesters believe Agenda 21 — a United Nations plan for sustainable development — is an effort to impose a global socialist government run by a small ruling elite. They must think the U.N., under a green […]