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A police officer or a gallon of milk? Citywide bus service or wheat bread? Would low-income families benefit more from the services cities provide or paying less for food? Different year, different billGet a fix on thatFeast of burden Those questions are at the heart of the debate over whether to eliminate the sales tax […]

The way Oklahoma City handled adversity after April 19, 1995, was a ripple in an ocean of hope said former President Bill Clinton, Wednesday night at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum. Accepting the National Oklahoma City Memorial Foundation’s Reflections of Hope Award, Clinton took time to reflect on the strength Oklahomans showed in […]

Ron Ferrell got out. Out of debt. Out of the housing market. Out of the city and almost off the power grid. Getting outSustainable lifeUrban gardenerSustainable community Ferrell lives in the outskirts of the metro area, but is making it in life quite literally on his own, living in a 725-square-foot home he built by […]

When in the area of The Village or the Paseo, be on the lookout for a glasses-wearing, bike-riding, grocery-toting redhead: that’s Dan Yates, the new president of Sustainable OKC. Taking office Feb. 1, Yates was unanimously elected to the position, replacing past president Shauna Lawyer Struby. He has been part of the group for three […]

When it comes to new home construction, green is the thing. Energy-efficient, environmentally-friendly homes are on the rise. But in this generation of Earth friendly, think less geodesic dome and more high-end and low maintenance. Today’s green construction is just as attractive as it is efficient and is bringing in buyers by the hybrid carload. […]

A group of lawmakers from southeastern Oklahoma expressed their displeasure with a deal for Oklahoma City to start buying water from Sardis Lake in Pushmataha County, southeast of McAlester. Several state senators held a press conference and said a secret deal has been made for Oklahoma City to purchase the water rights for more than […]

On a bright, sunny day, more than 1,000 people came together to remember those who were killed and those who survived 15 years after the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Building. The grounds of the Oklahoma City National Memorial Museum was a somber place as Oklahoma leaders remembered that day and urged Oklahomans to […]

Fifteen years after one of the most devastating acts of domestic terrorism is a time of remembrance. For two well-respected journalists, it is going back to a story that continually impacts their lives and their careers. The sixth year of the National Media Symposium will be led by Mark Halperin, editor-at-large of Time magazine, and […]

Death blew out of Kansas in a lumbering yellow truck. Profile of a profiler‘It didn’t belong there’‘No explanation’Time passagesAfter Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols built the bomb in the back of the Ryder truck McVeigh had rented only days before, according to court records and from his own account, McVeigh drove a circuitous route into […]

Mugsy had lost almost all of her teeth by the time she was 5 years old. The Yorkshire terrier still had a few teeth left when she was rescued from a puppy mill, and her new owner took her to a veterinarian. But the vet pulled most of the teeth. They were too rotten to […]