Oklahoma has already seen its first freeze, signaling that its first outdoor growing season is at a close. Under the state’s new medical cannabis law, both commercial growers and patients are allowed to cultivate crops outdoors with a few restrictions. Predictions for how THC-containing cannabis would fare in Oklahoma’s climate were wildly varied, with some […]
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Hello, Death
Greet Death8 p.m. Monday Resonator Institute 325 E. Main St., Norman resonator.space $5 About 20 years ago in a first-grade classroom, Greet Death began to form. Bassist Sam Boyhtari, guitarist Logan Gaval and former drummer Anthony Spak became childhood friends in Davisburg, Michigan, before they learned long division, but they wouldn’t pick up their instruments […]
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State Question 776 asks voters to protect the death penalty in Oklahoma
The proposed change would incorporate the protections into Oklahoma Constitution’s Bill of Rights.
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Oklahoma City University students research facets of water crisis
Local professor encourages students to apply scientific knowledge to real-world problems.
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Kevin Durant’s personal chef holds benefit dinner for Flint residents
Personal chef Ryan Lopez holds Eat for Flint, a meal at Kd’s Southern Cuisine, to raise money to help those affected by Michigan’s water emergency.
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Ghosts of McClendon
The lawsuit, which also named Encana Oil and Gas USA, claims both energy companies took part in a 2010 public auctions for oil and gas leases by the Michigan Department of Natural Resources. The Michigan AG claims if the companies worked together after an initial auction so as not to bid against one another, it […]
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Wiggle your ears
A nationally known ’90s alternative rock group will headline the first, free “kindie” music festival Sunday at Bicentennial Park, 500 Couch, to promote health and fitness for the whole family. Michigan-based band The Verve Pipe will perform songs from Are We There Yet?, its second full-length album of children’s music released in July following the […]
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Life’s a beach house
Credit: Brad Gregg For Oklahoma City billionaire Aubrey McClendon, that might mean selling the beach house he’s never lived in. His $10 million home on Lake Michigan hit the market recently. The 7,000-square-foot behemoth of a getaway place in the Singapore Dunes of Michigan comes complete with a 1,300-square-foot separate guest house. The former Chesapeake […]
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Sooner voter
In an interview with ESPN.com’s SoonerNation blog, Meinke admitted that the revelation of his pick prompted a deluge of reaction, not all of it from happy campers. “Judging from Twitter, I think I’ve made a bunch of new friends from Stillwater,” joked Meinke, a first-time voter in the AP poll. “But unless you’re an extreme […]
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Tit for tat
Credit: Brad Gregg On July 11, Businessweek reported that Chesapeake was ordered to pay $100 million to three leaseholders who claimed the Oklahoma City-based company reneged on an agreement to purchase mineral rights. Filed in 2008, the lawsuit brought by three Texas energy companies alleged Chesapeake failed to complete the purchase of three gas leases […]