Credit: Brad Gregg In the Oct. 22 Bloomberg Businessweek, Mayor Mick was one of five city experts interviewed about urban planning. Asked what his favorite city is aside from OKC, Cornett let his little-town blues melt away. “The public transit is astonishing,” he said of New York City. “The diversity available — in all senses […]
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Still a sportscaster
Cornett’s belief that the Thunder has transformed the city’s image is the kind of superficial observation one would expect from a talking head. Let me test his hypothesis: Oklahoma City is now nationally regarded as a place where one can attend a very popular sporting event. Footage of Thunder games on national television shows that […]
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Thunder has transformed city’s image
Some days you just think, “This can’t be happening!” We’ve become accustomed to seeing Oklahoma City on national telecasts. We’re used to seeing the dramatically lit shots of Bricktown and downtown Oklahoma City that play in and out of commercials during Thunder games. We’re even getting used to Charles Barkley saying there’s nothing to do […]
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Big leagues
Soon we will be watching the Oklahoma City Thunder compete for an NBA championship. Like the highs and lows of a seven-game playoff series, the story of how major-league professional sports came to Oklahoma City is about tragedy, triumph, plot twists and larger-than-life characters. A new book by Mayor Mick Cornett’s former chief of staff, […]
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Takeover trouble
State fairgrounds Shannon Cornman The council on April 3 received the reports on the MAPS 3 fairgrounds improvements and senior wellness centers from Mike Mize of Architectural Design Group, the lead consultant on MAPS 3. Around $58.7 million in MAPS 3 money is set aside for fairgrounds improvements, such as parking and a new exposition […]
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Great times for OKC
Having been active in establishing the Alliance for Cultural Facilities in 1989, consisting of 120 members from all areas of OKC, there was lengthy discussion of improving the park along with renovation of Civic Center Music Hall. MAPS provided money for the Civic Center, but not enough for a complete makeover of the park. After […]
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Weighty achievement
“Really it was an awareness campaign. The numerical goal was a million pounds, but the real goal was to get a conversation started about obesity,” said Cornett. There’s more cause for celebration than the shedding of pounds. Men’s Fitness magazine moved Oklahoma City from “fattest” in 2009 to “fittest” in its recent ranking of 50 […]
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Mick ’n’ Maher
Maher, a liberal, bomb-throwing comedian, has been a whipping boy for Republican pundits who’ve tried defending Rush Limbaugh by pointing out that, hey, Maher says crappy things, too. On Maher’s program, the nattily dressed Cornett sported a dark suit and lavender tie on a panel that included talk-show host Dylan Ratigan and conservative columnist Amy […]
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Bite Size: 1-25-12
More from the cake lady The owner of the now-closed and already missed Ruth’s Sweete Justice, Ruth Rickey (pictured), is on the move again. When asked what’s in her future, she said, “I have developed my own line of petal dust, and I will have my own line of [tools] to make sugar flowers.” We […]
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CFN Photo Op of the Week
Speaking of Mayor Cornett, the same day he praised city residents for shedding 1 million pounds, he found time to feed elephants at the Oklahoma City Zoo. Would Cornett, a Republican, be so willing to feed a donkey, the symbol of the Democratic Party?