In the back corner of Nichols Hills Drug, a man with gray hair and glasses worked to fill prescriptions, removed but aware and thankful for the flood of customers that had filled his store on a Saturday afternoon. “I just appreciate everyone coming out and showing up,” owner J. Black said from across the pharmacy […]
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Counterpoint: The private sector’s responsibility
It is a worthy project. However, neither merit nor nobility by themselves justify a public expenditure. As lawmakers, we must be judicious in our allocation of public monies. To be responsible with the public trust, we must be prudent in our spending and hold state agencies accountable. When AICCM, a state agency, approached the Legislature […]
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Vice control
While police say the ordinance will help discourage prostitution, others say it will have no effect, or in some cases, further complicate the issue. The revision amends a section of code that deals with drive-by shootings and eluding police officers, labeling both crimes a “public nuisance” and allowing for the impoundment of the vehicles used […]
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Shannon elected speaker-designate
T.W. Shannon, a Lawton Republican first elected in 2006 and an enrolled member of the Chickasaw Nation, was elected by the caucus as House speaker-designate, meaning that if House Republicans maintain a majority after the 2012 elections, Shannon will be next in line to replace term-limited Speaker Kris Steele, R-Shawnee. Shannon, 33, will not only […]
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Truth and taxes
I found said letter to include the same slight-of-hand statistical shifting so often used by the left that I felt compelled to ask both the writer of the letter and the staff of the Gazette to consider avoiding using such tactics or publishing such tactics in the future. In doing so, I have no doubt […]
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Pounding the pavement
Randy Entz, transportation planner for the Oklahoma City Planning Department, will discuss sidewalks and trails that are being paid for by a recent bond issue and out of the MAPS 3 program, which sets aside $10 million for new sidewalks and $40 million for new trails. “It’s a good way for people to get an […]
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Controversial Keystone XL pipeline focus of public meeting
The State Department is seeking citizen input on the pipeline, which would be owned by a Canadian company and would pass through Oklahoma. left, Protesters gather Aug. 23 at a Keystone XL demonstration at the White House. The planned pipeline has been criticized by some. The Sierra Club said it plans to attend the meeting […]
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Healthy variety
Variety Care, a federally recognized community health center, provides affordable and accessible health care at 10 locations statewide, including seven in the Oklahoma City metro. Services include medical, dental, vision and behavioral care for all ages. According to Lou Carmichael, executive director, the average annual cost per capita for health care in the U.S. is […]
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Human network
Despite a 2004 FBI-led sting operation, dubbed “Stormy Nights,” which rescued 23 young people from forced prostitution at truck stops in Oklahoma, sexual slavery is far from eradicated either in Oklahoma or nationwide, said Mark Elam (pictured), executive director of Oklahomans Against the Trafficking of Humans (OATH) and associate pastor at Lifechanger Church in Claremore. […]
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‘Education as a common good’
The danger in any kind of reform is that change is not an end in itself; it must actually lead somewhere. Therefore, before Oklahomans embark on serious reform of how we educate our children, we need to have an idea of what we want the end product to look like. In order to do that, […]