To say that taxes are unpopular among Oklahoma conservatives is an understatement. If the past decade is any indication, Republicans here are willing to hold the line on this issue, even when it comes to educating the state’s children. Earlier this month, former Gov. Frank Keating and Larry Parman, former secretary of the commerce and […]
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Chicken-Fried News: Letter heads
Some prominent former political figures have an opinion on how lawmakers should be spending the special session.
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Chicken-Fried News: Mobile mansion
Christina Fallin was recently involved in media firestorm when OKC residents discovered she was living in a camper trailer on the grounds of the governor’s mansion.
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Camaraderie, humility played roles in bombing recovery efforts
A close relationship between city leaders made a difference in the hours and days following the April 19, 1995 bombing in Oklahoma City.
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‘Darkly similiar’
Then-Gov. Frank Keating hours after the April 19, 1995 bombing Credit: Mark Hancock Keating had taken office three months before the April 19, 1995, bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building that killed 168 people and injured more than 500 others. Then, on April 15 of this year, two brothers in Boston allegedly set […]
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A real maverick
David Prater Credit: Mark Hancock On the other end was Scott Rowland, Prater’s first assistant district attorney. Rowland was at the Oklahoma City Police Department’s homicide division; there was a video he wanted Prater to see. A few days prior, Prater had heard about two people trying to rob a local pharmacy, but that a […]
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End academic segregation
Sadly, Oklahoma continues to practice a less obvious, but equally pernicious, form of segregation — one based on school size and inadequate academic offerings. Worst of all, recent legislation to address this injustice has been sidetracked by objections from the usual suspects who seem to resist every worthy school reform: the school administrators themselves. They […]
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Point: State must step up
Gov. Frank Keating is prone to colorful speech, and his description of the dome-less Oklahoma state Capitol was no exception. When Keating rolled out his plan to put the dome on the state Capitol and complete the original design of the great Oklahoma architect Solomon Andrew Layton, there was considerable skepticism. Many thought it would […]