If you really want to win an election, you take your feet to the sidewalk and you start walking door-to-door and you win people over with your words, not money for signs and pamphlets. “All the money that committees have spent could have been used for other things within the community, instead of lazy politicians […]
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Historic green
The city held its first meeting April 5 with homeowners in historic districts to get feedback on what they would like to see incorporated into the guidelines governing work on houses and buildings located in historic preservation or historic landmark districts. Through an Energy Efficiency and Conservation grant from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office […]
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OKC taxpayers handing out corporate welfare
Clifton Adcock’s article about financial incentives from the city’s strategic investment program (News, “Taking a SIP,” April 13, Oklahoma Gazette) mentioned that we taxpayers of OKC will be handing out welfare to Chesapeake Energy (CHK), Boeing (BA) and are ready to do so with Continental Resources (CLR). As an OKC taxpayer, capitalist and money manager, […]
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MAPS streetcar steps forward
The “transit spine” accepted provides a key corridor for the MAPS 3 streetcar system, almost ensuring immediate ridership success while enabling the easy future expansion into the neighborhoods surrounding downtown. The Robinson (northbound), Broadway Avenue (southbound) rail corridor will immediately connect Bricktown to Midtown, while establishing the opportunity for easy future expansion into the Plaza […]
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Momentum ‘money’
The Committee for Oklahoma City Momentum’s “budget,” nor their agenda, certainly has not been covered by The Oklahoman. —Ron Ferrell Jones
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Dodging bullets
Shadid, who was rescued and survived the sniper’s gunshot, said he remembers the feeling of resignation that washed over him that day as he stared up at the unforgiving gray sky, accepting what he thought was his fate. Nine years later, that same feeling returned like an unwelcome visitor as Shadid and three other New […]
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Drafting MAPS
Meanwhile, despite the convention center subcommittee’s decision to rule out a site that would have required the city to purchase and move an OGE substation, the city could end up doing that anyway, and has $30 million in MAPS 3 funds — three times the amount set aside for sidewalks — budgeted for that purpose. […]
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En masse
Three of the metro’s most prominent arts organizations — Oklahoma City Ballet, Oklahoma City Philharmonic and Canterbury Choral Society — have partnered to bring one of the most revered musical compositions of all time, Mozart’s “Requiem Mass in D Minor,” to the Civic Center stage. This marks the first collaboration between the three in several […]
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Hearing test
Los Angeles has a large Muslim population and L.A. County Sheriff Lee Baca said that there was nothing to support King’s claims of non-cooperation by American Muslims. President Reagan said “America is a shining city upon a hill whose beacon light guides freedomloving people everywhere.” We won the Cold War because we had moral authority. […]
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Seeking shelter
For the last 30 days, the car has served as 23-year-old Antwone Taulton’s home. But Taulton is not one of the hundreds of homeless people in downtown Oklahoma City. He is a man on a mission. In February, Taulton, a student at Baylor University working on his master’s of divinity, took the semester off and […]