Oklahoma City’s urban renaissance includes projects that address the coexistence of nature and the city.
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Kirkpatrick Family Fund distributes more than $1 million in grants
Sixty Oklahoma nonprofits will use the funds for arts, education, health, social services and other outreach programs.
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Registration deadline is looming
Local groups urge those who haven’t registered to exercise their right to vote.
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November ballot measure sparks animal welfare, water safety questions from opponents
Despite raging debate from state officials, the outcome of State Question 777 rests in the hands of voters.
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Oklahoma Conference of Churches explores right to farm issue
Oklahoma Conference of Churches’ second Evenings of Listening event explores the right to farm debate.
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ANIMAL conference helps set safe, humane standards
Kirkpatrick Foundation will host The ANIMAL Conference, a two-day symposium on current and future trends affecting animals.
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Desk set
Born at a picnic table, the biannual magazine will showcase regional artists on an international stage, said Louisa McCune-Elmore, editor and Kirkpatrick Foundation executive director. “The magazine, at its core, is devoted to the contemporary arts and bringing those arts and the attitude that’s inherent to that world to new and developed audiences in Oklahoma, […]
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Prisoners and pooches
What you notice first in this scene is the bond between man and dog, both content to sit side by side as long as they’re allowed. Then your eyes drift to Miller’s standard-issue gray uniform, and you remember that this tableau is taking place not in a recliner in the living room, but rather the […]
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Oklahoma’s animal house
His response was lovely and instant: “I will be happy to pick up Dr. Rollin at the airport.” Bernard Rollin, Ph.D., is a serious animal ethicist from Colorado State University’s philosophy department. Cattle ranchers and animal-rights activists alike consider him a friend. The Kirkpatrick Foundation debuted its ambitious new animal initiative — to make Oklahoma […]
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Animal kingdom
Louisa McCune-Elmore Credit: Mark Hancock Oklahoma City’s Kirkpatrick Foundation is kicking off an ambitious initiative — to make Oklahoma the safest place to be an animal by 2032 — tonight by hosting worldrenowned philosopher and animal ethicist Bernard Rollin to lecture at the Oklahoma City Community Foundation. His lecture will conclude a day of discussion […]