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“Women changing the world, one venture at a time.” That’s the slogan and the overall theme for the Women Entrepreneurs Inspire Conference, presented by the Riata Center for Entrepreneurship at Oklahoma State University. The conference will be held from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday at the Cox Convention Center. This is the 10th year […]

In 1951, celebrated architect Bruce Goff, with the help of a volunteer labor force, completed Hopewell Baptist Church in Edmond. The church, like many of Goff’s structures, was imaginative and unique, taking advantage of local materials ” really local materials. Located on an old oil field, the site used pipes and other drilling pieces to […]

Oklahoma is joining more than 10 other states suing the federal government. Less than 24 hours after the U.S. House of Representatives passed a national overhaul of health care, Oklahoma’s Speaker of the House and Senate President Pro Tem asked the state attorney general to file a suit against the federal government and challenge the […]

Rob Rogers has a history restoring and preserving historic properties in New York, but his plans for SandRidge Energy Corp.’s downtown campus are facing opposition from individuals and preservationists who feel the plan is too suburban for downtown and will take away several of the city’s oldest buildings. Wide openHurdlesRead the submitted plan Rogers, principal […]

If getting voters to agree to a new convention center was a tough sell, finding the right location could prove even tougher. A new study suggests putting the convention center closer to Bricktown is a better idea than closer to the proposed central park, which is where the city’s Core to Shore master plan had […]

On a coffee table in Judge Robert Henry’s offices in downtown Oklahoma City, underneath a copy of the “centennial Quran” that made rounds through the state Legislature in 2007, lies an inconspicuous wood and glass case housing an array of letter openers ” gifts from friends and colleagues over the years.Paradigm shifts‘Renaissance Man’‘To the next […]

Paul Thompson, a social activist for 40 years in the metro area, died March 4 after what is described by friends as a “brief and unexpected illness.” Thompson was admitted to Mercy Hospital following a stroke, and passed away days later from a heart attack. Memorial services were held on Sunday, March 14. Thompson, 70, […]

Oklahomans for Alcohol Law Reform is a grassroots organization attempting to change alcoholic beverage laws that are vestiges of the old “blue laws” system, including allowing liquor retailers to sell on Sundays. Randy Burleson, a founding member of the organization, said OFALR is not pushing for “obligatory regulations.” “We think it’s a matter of consumer […]

Over time, buildings come and buildings go in any city. But downtown, where SandRidge Energy plans to raze four structures of the former Kerr-McGee complex as it creates a corporate campus in its corner of the world, some are concerned that the company is unnecessarily taking away irreplaceable pieces of the city’s history. No one […]

Everyone in Oklahoma knows you can’t buy liquor in grocery stores. But how did these laws come about in the first place?Pending alcohol legislation Some think Oklahoma is still in the dry ages when it comes to liquor laws, like the group Oklahomans for Alcohol Law Reform. And there are those who think this state’s […]