Black students, faculty and staff at University of Oklahoma matter. We’re appalled they can’t get through one single semester without a racist incident, but here we are again. Of course it has to be during Black History Month that an overly sensitive, out-of-touch white OU professor compares the phrase “OK, boomer” to using the N-word, […]
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Commentary: Paper money
Late last year, a candidate for public office was interviewed by Oklahoma Gazette for an election preview story, and everything went perfectly well — at least until the interview ended. As the reporter got up to leave, the candidate had the temerity to ask if he could read the story before it went to press. […]
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Chicken-Fried News: Unethical behavior
Missing from the Capitol this session were lobbyists going through security with brightly wrapped packages trimmed in gold foil with cards addressed to lawmakers. Inside those cards, we at Chicken-Fried News imagine messages reading, “Happy birthday my favorite lawmaker. Enjoy your big day, and tomorrow we’ll discuss that legislation I need your vote on.” […]
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Chicken-Fried News: Copy and paste
An Oklahoman running for the state House of Representatives mistakenly included porn as an item on a campaign finance report he filed with the ethics commission.
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Letters to the Editor: Dec. 7, 2016
I believe that if we all speak out and stand up for each other, regardless of our religions, skin color and gender, we will come out stronger than we were before this country.
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Chicken-Fried News: Personal piggy bank?
The new rules beg us at Chicken-Fried News to ask: How did candidates and politicians think it was ethical to pay their bills and purchase tickets with campaign donations?
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That’s a lot of money
A new rule increases by 500 percent the amount in meals and other gifts a lobbyist can give to a legislator each year. That comes to $500 per lawmaker. Here’s a little math, so check it twice because we are journalists. There are 149 solons at the state Legislature. If all of them receive the […]
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Easy ethics
Marilyn Hughes Credit: Mark Hancock Oklahoma Ethics Commission Executive Director Marilyn Hughes and Ethics Commission General Counsel Rebecca Adams provided an overview and some practice filling out the new forms required of certain municipal and local candidates. In 2013, Oklahoma City voters will go to the polls to elect council wards 1, 3, 4 and […]
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Recs in effect
Meanwhile, a member of the Oklahoma City Council said he plans to file a complaint with the Oklahoma County District Attorney’s Office over the municipal elections earlier this year. During its Nov. 17 meeting at the Capitol, the Ethics Commission received a staff report recommending changes to the Political Subdivisions Ethics Act, which governs municipal […]