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Oklahoma City’s freelance community is growing, and its members are looking for more interaction with each other and with their clients ” something not easily accomplished if you work from home. That was the inspiration behind the Oklahoma City Coworking Technology Collaborative, or OKCCoCo, scheduled to open this month. OVERALL DISCONNECTOPEN HOUSE “I’ve been working […]

Take a ride around London in one of those famous double-decker red tour buses and, passing Parliament Square, you may hear a story, possibly apocryphal, that before he died in 1965, Winston Churchill said he never wanted a statue of himself erected in London. This, the story goes, was because of Churchill’s intense loathing for […]

Halving the dose of prescriptions. Skipping vital prescriptions. Not even purchasing prescriptions. Many without insurance are making these choices in order to pay for shelter, fuel or food. In Oklahoma, more than 700,000 people ” close to 17 percent ” don’t have insurance or can’t afford to purchase medicine, as reported by Rx for Oklahoma, […]

Before you sit down to your next meal, consider what’s on your plate. Do you know where the food you are about to eat came from? COMPARABLE PRICE TAGS PRESERVING VALUABLE RESOURCES YOU’VE GOT TO MOVE IT Sure, the pork chop originated on a farm and the veggies were taken from the ground. But do […]

Compassionate Communication Oklahoma (CCO) is offering a free introduction to nonviolent communication from 7 to 9 p.m. Thursday on the campus of Oklahoma City University. Nonviolent communication, or NVC, is a movement and process started by Marshall Rosenberg, a Jewish man who experienced firsthand the effects of anti-Semitism, as well as witnessed the violence directed […]

Oklahoma Gazette won the Oklahoma Press Association’s highest honor, the Sequoyah Award, in its first year of eligibility in the 2008 Better Newspaper Contest. SOCIETY OF PROFESSIONAL JOURNALISTS ADDY AWARDS Published by Bill Bleakley and owned by Tierra Media Group, Gazette competed with sustaining member publications in Division 9 of the contest, which was judged […]

Could the Oklahoma City Blazers leave Bricktown and the Ford Center in the near future for a privately owned facility? Express Sports President Robert Funk Jr. said it’s an attractive option, but not a likely one in this relatively young sports market.  SHARE SPACE PERCENTAGES MOOT POINT “Any sports organization knows that owning your facility […]

Dani Brunet was in college the first time she had sex. She was 20, a sophomore at Southern Nazarene University, and one of the few female religion majors in her class. She grew up in a Nazarene family, and, like many Nazarene kids, she was taught that Christians save sex until marriage. ‘GIFT’ GIVINGPRIVATE PLEDGE […]

eds of towers and acres.  There are five large wind farms in Oklahoma, according to the Oklahoma Wind Power Initiative. Corporate utilities companies like OG&E, Oklahoma Municipal Power Authority and Public Service Company of Oklahoma purchase the majority of the wind power generated by these farms. When the scope is narrowed to small-scale production, there […]

Oklahoma City Public Schools superintendent Karl Springer and school board chairman Kirk Humphreys are unveiling a plan this week to shore up what they say is a $40 million shortfall in the 2007 bond issue. The attempted solution involves tapping into unused bonding capacity and extending the maturity of the school bonds. THE ‘SILO’ EFFECT […]