The study, commissioned in January 2011, was to be presented to the Oklahoma City Council at its Sept. 27 meeting, but when the meeting began to run long, the presentation was delayed until the Oct. 11 meeting. “It’s a very profound study and one that merits the full attention of the council,” said Ward 3 […]
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Hub flub
The Oklahoma City Council, on Sept. 13, approved submission of a grant application to the U. S. Department of Transportation for $17 million. That $17 million, coupled with sales tax from MAPS 3, money from the Association of Central Oklahoma Governments and the Oklahoma Department of Transportation, would total $26 million to fund the first […]
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Senate showdown
Voters in Senate District 43 will cast their ballots Tuesday and send a new state senator to the Legislature. The election will replace term-limited Republican Sen. Jim Reynolds, who was elected as treasurer in Cleveland County last November. The district covers part of eastern Oklahoma County and goes into northern Cleveland County, encompassing parts of […]
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Controversial Keystone XL pipeline focus of public meeting
The State Department is seeking citizen input on the pipeline, which would be owned by a Canadian company and would pass through Oklahoma. left, Protesters gather Aug. 23 at a Keystone XL demonstration at the White House. The planned pipeline has been criticized by some. The Sierra Club said it plans to attend the meeting […]
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SOLD!
Oklahoma Publishing Co., which owns The Oklahoman newspaper, NewsOK and a variety of other assets, announced it was being purchased by the Anschutz Corporation, owned by Colorado-based billionaire Philip Anschutz. All stock of the privately owned OPUBCO is to be sold to Anschutz in early October, Christy Gaylord Everest, chairwoman and CEO of OPUBCO, said […]
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‘Counterstrike’
“Counterstrike: The Untold Story of America’s Secret Campaign Against Al Qaeda” explores how the lessons learned from the intelligence failures of 9/11 were applied on the battlefield and how the different agencies operate. Shanker, an Oklahoma City native and Pentagon correspondent for The Times, is scheduled to sign copies at 2 p.m. Sunday at Full […]
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What the cluck?
I grew up in western Woods County in what is considered part of the Prairie Chicken habitat. When I lived on the farm in the 1950s, probably 20-25 percent of the land was under cultivation. We regularly saw a handful of prairie chickens, seldom more than a dozen. During the last 60 years, the habitat […]
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Back to the future
Doug Tennant, senior planner and project manager at Jacobs (the consultant for the hub plan), walked the council through the winnowing process that started with 10, and later three, potential sites. right Sketched plans for the forthcoming hub “The Santa Fe site was absolutely head and shoulders above the other two,” Tennant said. “Some people […]
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United we stand
The Oklahoma Worker Cooperative Network plans to host several “incubator meetings” throughout Central Oklahoma between Sept. 29 and Oct. 25. Worker cooperatives are businesses owned and operated by the employees, said Robert Waldrop, the network’s general manager and one of the founders of the Oklahoma Food Cooperative. The organization formed this year. Waldrop said the […]
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‘Sea change’
The newspaper made the announcement on its website and stated that all Oklahoma Publishing Company stock will be sold to the Anschutz Corp., which is owned by Philip Anschutz, 71, a Denver-based businessman ranked by Forbes magazine as the 37th richest person in the United States and the 124th wealthiest person on the planet with […]