You can see how frustrating it can be. And it’s easy for hoops fans to have misperceptions about collective bargaining agreement negotiations. Now comes a report from the Sporting News that the NBA has set up a Twitter account to issue clarifications of 140 characters or less (“Collective Bargaining news and facts directly from the […]
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Gag me with a lockout
You can see how frustrating it can be. And it’s easy for hoops fans to have misperceptions about collective bargaining agreement negotiations. Now comes a report from the Sporting News that the NBA has set up a Twitter account to issue clarifications of 140 characters or less (“Collective Bargaining news and facts directly from the […]
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Gag me with a lockout
You can see how frustrating it can be. And it’s easy for hoops fans to have misperceptions about collective bargaining agreement negotiations. Now comes a report from the Sporting News that the NBA has set up a Twitter account to issue clarifications of 140 characters or less (“Collective Bargaining news and facts directly from the […]
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Neutral Mick
On Oct. 13, Fox Sports printed a story about the NBA lockout and Oklahoma City Mayor Mick Cornett’s reaction to it. The story stated that Cornett was “livid” about the lockout and blamed the problems in negotiations on the players’ agents. Then, on Oct. 19, Yahoo! Sports news carried a story about NBA city mayors […]
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Breaking ground
Wellness Now co-chairmen, Oklahoma City Mayor Mick Cornett and County Commission Chairman Ray Vaughn will be a few of the community leaders in attendance. The 54-acre facility will have clinical services from the OU Medical Center, community nutrition and cooking classes, immunizations, breast and cervical cancer screenings and parent preparation classes.“Having clinical services and putting […]
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Well and good
Wellness Now was allocated a little more than $3.5 million during the next five years from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Community Transformation Grants, said Vicki Monks, Oklahoma City-County Health Department public information officer. As one of the 61 regions awarded the grant, Oklahoma County will use the money to decrease chronic […]
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Be our guest!
And this isn’t an Aubrey McClendon profile you’re likely to read in The Oklahoman. The Forbes piece, written by Christopher Helman, starts out with McClendon eating dinner at Deep Fork Grill, which McClendon co-owns, and trying to select a wine. After relaying some of Chesapeake’s current market standing and statistics about the company, the profile […]
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Alley oops
What? All over the city, we have inventions called traffic control systems and sidewalks to help her. If people are dumb enough to purchase those overpriced, poorly located tiny boxes that pass for housing near Bricktown, just so they can walk to the park, then they need to question their own desire to walk. They […]
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Horsin’ around
City staff told the council that there were complaints by some of the companies offering horse-drawn carriage rides in Bricktown that other companies offering similar rides were not shoeing their horses properly, complete with a letter from a vet stating horses walking on pavement should be shod correctly. While it is partially a safety issue, […]
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$30 million question
The budgets were presented to each of the eight MAPS 3 project subcommittees July 26 and 27, and came before the MAPS 3 Citizens Advisory Board July 28. Within those preliminary proposed budgets was $252 million for the convention center, the largest and most expensive of the MAPS 3 projects. The exact amount of money […]