Joel Robison, who served as the Oklahoma Education Association’s lobbyist and associate executive director, succeeds former Chief of Staff Jennifer Carter, who decided not to return from maternity leave. Robison (pictured), a native of western Oklahoma, was an elementary school teacher in Oklahoma City before becoming an elected official with the state chapter of the […]
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Walk this way
This year marks the 30th anniversary of the first diagnosed case of AIDS, adding additional significance to Sunday’s AIDS Walk. Since 1981, the disease has claimed more than 25 million people. Currently, more than 4,600 Oklahomans are living with the disease. The AIDS Walk raises money for in-state AIDS services organizations. Serving as grand marshal […]
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Disraeli conflict
Mr. Reese intentionally shortened a quote from Benjamin Disraeli to serve the point he was trying to make. Unfortunately, the complete quote actually works against him. Disraeli’s full quote reads: “In a progressive country change is constant; and the great question is not whether you should resist change which is inevitable, but whether that change […]
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Inhofe: Obama an ‘appeaser’
The event, attended by several state and local politicians and business leaders, also touched on uprisings in North Africa and the Middle East. Libyan leader Col. Moammar Gadhafi had yet to be found when Inhofe spoke, but the longtime leader’s reign was all but over, Inhofe said. “He’s history in terms of where we are,” […]
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Labor pains
How Marty Morelli (Letters, “Reader: ‘Hitler was a progressive’”) can reconcile his claims that liberals and progressives are Nazis and Fascists with the fact that Jewish leaders have played a prominent role in liberal and progressive causes is laughable. This is not to say that Jews are only liberals and progressives. There are just as […]
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Liberals ‘blather without restraint’
Bill complains in Phil Bacharach’s rather brief “interview” story (“‘Real Time,’ red state,” March 16, Gazette) about how so very tough it is for liberals to survive as a minority in Oklahoma City! Try being a conservative in Hollywood — I know that turd-rich environment from nine years’ effort, in the process finding conservatives aplenty, […]