Oh my! Gov. Mary Fallin is in hot water again with the state’s Native American communities. This time, it has nothing to do with daughter Christina’s photos in a red Plains headdress or mimicking a war dance on the 2014 Norman Music Festival stage. In early May, Fallin vetoed House Bill 2661, proposed by Rep. […]
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Chicken-Fried News: Banner year
Someone unfurled a banner bearing the governor’s face and the words Oklahoma State of Despair during Gov. Mary Fallin’s State of the State speech.
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Chicken-Fried News: #GovernorProblems
With less than a year left in office, Fallin seeks more power for the governorship.
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The girl from Madill
Credit: Brad Gregg State Sen. John Sparks, D-Norman, first met Janna Little in Boston in 1987, when he was at Harvard University and she was attending Wellesley College. The Okie expatriates became fast friends. After graduation, they wound up working together in the Washington, D.C., office of then-U.S. Rep. Bill Brewster, D-Marietta. “She is charming, […]