Events in Ferguson, Missouri, have put a spotlight on the relationship between police and African-Americans.
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Italian, Venezia-style
Limoncello cake Photo by Shannon Cornman Italian chain restaurants have become shorthand for describing those who don’t like “real” food or aren’t “shopping local.” Now here’s an unpopular position: They’re not that bad. Not really. I mean, if you’re craving the most authentic Italian food in Oklahoma City, you’re already facing a bit of an […]
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Remembering
Jim Ross served his country with honor while risking his life every day on a foreign battlefield and in a war that seemed senseless to many Americans. A veteran of the Vietnam War, the Arcadia resident is author of a new memoir, Outside the Wire: Riding with the ‘Triple Deuce’ in Vietnam 1970, which tells […]
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Water woes
Lake Thunderbird credit: Chris Street Norman, Del City and Midwest City are looking to augment water in Lake Thunderbird, after President Obama last month signed into law the Lake Thunderbird Efficient Use Act. It allows the Central Oklahoma Master Conservancy District, which manages the lake for the three cities, to purchase raw water from the […]
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Municipal money
And a check of municipal salaries in the metro shows maybe that’s where college graduates should be looking for a high-paying job. What municipal officials in the area earn might be surprising in a county where the median household income — the combined income of the breadwinners in one house — is less than $43,000 a […]
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GOP candidate Childers wins Senate District 43 special election
The Senate seat, which was vacated by term-limited Republican Sen. Jim Reynolds after he successfully won the position of treasurer in Cleveland County last November, covers part of eastern Oklahoma County and goes into northern Cleveland County, encompassing parts of Oklahoma City, Del City, all of Valley Brook and part of Moore. Childers (pictured), 41, […]
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Grab ‘n’ go
Wait. Yes, we can. A couple of weeks ago, two lovely ladies (and we’re using that term loosely) pulled a pickup truck outside a Del City plumbing business, according to a report from KFOR-TV. One of the lasses pulled down her sizable drawers, plopped onto the curb and let it flow. No. 1, that is. […]
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What do the new Oklahoma County districts look like?
The Oklahoma County Commissioners unanimously approved new district boundaries Monday that moved several municipalities across more evened-out district lines, as no cities now are divided among two districts. At Monday morning’s meeting, District 1 Commissioner Willa Johnson and District 2 Commissioner Brian Maughan traded respective cities Choctaw and Nicoma Park (from District 1 to 2) […]
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Race track
The district covers part of eastern Oklahoma County and goes into northern Cleveland County, encompassing parts of Oklahoma City, Del City all of Valley Brook and part of Moore. Reynolds announced his resignation in May, effective July 1. Reynolds, who has held the Senate seat since 2000 and was facing term limits, was elected as […]
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Tattoo terror
It was what “The West Wing” has taught us is not a “proportional response.” According to, oddly enough, the Australia-based Herald Sun, Johnson was beaten with a bat, while the two women shocked him in his man parts with a stun gun. Then, they decided to give him a homemade tattoo across Johnson’s forehead that […]